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.

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

Job Description

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 multiple talented, 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 cross-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of cutting-edge 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 cross-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings

• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, value added 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:

• Develop well-designed, easily testable, secure, manageable and high performant code

• Implement Spring (Boot) and Hibernate frameworks

• Develop and maintain RESTful services

• Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio for containerization, orchestration, and service mesh

• Supports relationship with product owners to gather and refine requirements for one product task, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions within a product

• Begins to develop and design architect solutions, considering integrations with other solutions

• Provides relevant knowledge on the development of technical documentation of solutions and follows best practices in technical documentation

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features

• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

• Develop code that complies with design specifications

• Participate code-review sessions not only as owner role but also in the reviewer role

• Develop code that complies with secure coding guidelines and Visa Key Controls

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 Java technology and related framework like Spring, Hibernate, etc.

• Builder: Experience building and deploying cloud-native services with quality and scalability

• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Istio etc.

• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, DevOps, Architects, and Agile/Scrum teams

• Can do Attitude: Have a ‘can do’ attitude and act proactively rather than reactively.

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

• Proven experience as a Senior Backend Developer
• Strong knowledge of Java, Spring, Hibernate, and RESTful web services
• Experience with distributed event store mechanisms such as Kafka
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio
• Experience with Agile Software Development Methodology
• Experience with both NoSQL and SQL datastores and their query languages like SQL
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication and team collaboration skills
• Familiarity with secure coding standards e.g. OWASP is plus
• Skilled in using development tools like Git, Maven, Jenkins including source code control, debugging and profiling

Additional Information

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.