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

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be part of our Value-Added Services team to help design, enhance and transform payment experience in an agile development environment. You will be part of team performing full stack development of payment products developing restful services, highly performing secure and scalable real time and batching systems. You will work on unit testing, automation scripting, code reviews and regular check-ins to continuous integration that will become part of your DNA. If you are a passionate, looking for a well-rounded experience in building complex, large scale platform components or rapidly prototype experimental scenarios or dream of creating an ideal developer productivity suite leveraging creativity and automation, you should come work for Visa. This position is based in Bangalore, India.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with Product owners, architects and other relevant stakeholders to gather and refine requirements for one or more products, taking in to account the existing tools and solutions across departments.

• Translates functional requirements into system designs for one or more components and communicates how the components will interact. 

• Demonstrates understanding of non-functional requirements (NFR) and their impact on the system. Leads junior engineers in understanding requirements. 

• Design, Code, test, document and implement new applications & as well as existing programs.

• Develop code that complies with design specifications and meets security and coding best practices.

• Work independently and provide guidance to junior developers.

• Work with team members on technical software development issues, problem analysis and resolution.

• Participate in design and code review sessions as appropriate - to ensure the quality of work delivered by teammates is in accordance with development standards.

• Write automation scripts to functionally automate the testing.

• Take up scrum master role on rotation basis to support the team to move faster with product delivery.

• Learn and adopt technologies, like generative AI, that provide developer productivity improvements. 

• Engages with product engineering teams and product owners during code/design reviews, regular meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles. 

• Leverages advanced knowledge of systems/platforms and telemetry analyses to propose isolated improvements in code, processes, and designs to deliver on customer/business objectives more effectively. 

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
- 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
- 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
- Master's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field. 
- Minimum 8 years' experience in software development, specifically in building scalable, distributed, and multi-threaded applications.
- Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Sprint MVC, JPA, Hibernate is mandatory.
- Strong hands-on experience in developing RESTful Web Services.
- Solid skills in working with databases, relational/NoSQL, along with writing and optimizing SQL queries.
- Proficiency developing unit and automation scripts using JUnit, Karate etc.
- Proficiency working with Message Queuing systems like IBM WebSphere MQ, Kafka etc.
- Understanding and hands-on experience using Generative AI tools/technologies, specifically in the context of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Proficiency working with containers/cloud infrastructure.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis.
- Willingness to learn and adapt to new skills and initiatives. 
- Experience with Agile development methodology.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Knowledge/Hands-on experience of front-end web development using JavaScript or TypeScript is a plus.
- Understanding of user authentication methods, including SAML, OAuth, WS-Federation.

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.