Company Description

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.

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Job Description

Visa is looking for Software Engineers who will help build Open VisaNet, Visa's Next generation payment processing platform developed on Open Systems, that would fuel growth in electronic payments globally and drive financial inclusion in many parts of the world.

Open VisaNet, the Next Generation VisaNet, will push the envelope of building highly scalable, secure, cost effective and distributed application on commodity hardware using best-in-class technology components. Open VisaNet is one of Visa's Key initiative that will help Visa support in-country processing solutions and provide Visa an opportunity to move away from Proprietary Mainframe type systems. Building Open VisaNet will involve collaboration with exceptional group of software engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts and infrastructure architects.

Essential Functions:

• Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using functional programming paradigm

• Contribute to efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools

• Develop automation tools and framework for validating highly available, fault tolerant, scalable, low latency, distributed payments transaction processing systems

• Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review using tools such as Checkmarx and Sonarqube. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques.

• Ensure proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring

• Collaborate with the multiple teams across Development, Operations & Infrastructure, and Product to analyze and debug issues related to build, deployment, and infrastructure. Support cross-functional teams in integrated test efforts.

• Ensuring proper documentation and internal publishing of design tradeoffs, code best practices and lessons learned.

• Support in triaging and troubleshooting of highly distributed services in the production environment.

• Responsible for the stability and high availability of lower environments.

• Championing & driving application, infrastructure & enterprise security efforts, certificate management etc.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:
3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
Knowledge of functional programming languages like GoLang, Scala, Erlang, Haskell, Clojure, or the ability to learn them quickly
Experience with distributed database, distributed computing and high frequency transactions is a big plus
Working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release
Experience with configuration automation tools (Puppet/Ansible/Chef/Salt)
Hands-on experience in bash, shell & python scripting is mandatory
Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes.
Hands-on experience in Splunk, Sysdig, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana etc. is a big plus.
Experience with operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols
Effective verbal and written communication skills
Previous experience with financial services or payments processing domain is a big plus

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 117,600.00 to 166,150.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.