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 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, Post Purchase product, 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:

• Oversee the software development process, managing a team of 10 developers, both employees and contractors.
• Plan, schedule, and efficiently coordinate software projects.
• Plays a significant role in the development and delivery of new features and ensure software projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Implement and maintain quality assurance processes.
• Develops and designs moderately advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable, considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem.
• Foster an inclusive and high-performance culture within the team.
• Provides domain expertise on the development of user documentation of solutions and implements standard processes in user documentation.
• Works with product owners to gather and refine requirements for one product, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions across departments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and provide updates on project progress.
• Continually update technical knowledge and skills, and encourage the team to do the same.
• Provide mentorship and career development planning to team members.
• Participate in daily stand-ups and work with the delivery team to improve productivity by leveraging development and quality metrics.
• Work alongside our US-based team, coordinating efforts and maintaining effective communication.
• Experience in managing both employees and contractors.

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. 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
- 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience as a Software Manager in managing and leading one or two development teams of 10+ engineers.
- 5+ years of experience as a Software developer.
- 5+ years of practical experience in Agile process, especially with Scrum.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and team management skills.
- Experience working with diverse teams and stakeholders, preferably including teams based in the US.
- 5+ years of strong Core Java and Java web application development for RESTful web services.
- Strong working knowledge with Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Data, JPA, JDBC, and event-driven programming using Kafka.
- Proficient in OOP Design, multi-threading, and experienced with design patterns.
- Knowledge and experience in AI/ML is a plus.
- Experience as a solution architect is a plus.

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.