Staff SWE Engineer (7-11 years, Java Backend)

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity: 

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale.  As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.   

The Work itself: 

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability 
• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings 
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads 
• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions. 
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology 
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities 

Essential Functions:

• Developing, testing, and documenting software programs
• Developing micro services using Java, Sprint boot, Kafka and MySQL.         
• Applying the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of engineering applications and products
• Supporting and/or installs software applications/operating systems    
• Performing code reviews to verify changes meet development requirements and deploying and staging code in development environments
• Developing database queries, or code that generates queries and fixes bugs found in existing codebases
• Contributing to authoring large project deployment procedures
• Developing large applications independently and designing multi-tier solutions
• Producing highly scalable, high performing applications
• Helping preserve goals and business requirements

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Basic Qualifications
7+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or with an Advanced degree.
•Desire to work with and share new and innovative ideas, constantly expanding your knowledge
•Analytical, strong organization and planning skills
•Ability to work on complex technical and business problems while creative solutions
•5+ years of experience with Core Java and Java web application development for RESTful web services
•3+ years of strong knowledge w/ Spring Framework, Sprint boot and Build Tools, such as Maven
•Working knowledge in Reactive and Event drive programming using Kafka
•Strong OOP Design Skills and experience with design patterns
•Ability to understand and author APIs
•Practice in Test-driven Development
•Good knowledge in multi-threading and concurrency
•Experience with CI/CD using Jenkins , Docker, Kubernetes
•Working with Checkmarx, Qualys, Aqua and similar code/system scanners and remediation for security focused development
•Strong knowledge in optimizing SQL, Stored Procedure is a plus
•Profession experience in using ETL tool Clover DX to implement import and export data flows.
•Experience in AI/ML is a plus.
•Experience working with API automation with Java based frameworks (Rest Assured, TestNg or JUnit) or JavaScript based frameworks (Jasmine or Jest).

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.