Lead SW Engineer

Technology Leader in Visa Acceptance Solutions

As a Technology Leader in the Acceptance Solutions division at Visa you will be an integral part of our Acceptance Solutions team contributing to the design enhancement and development of our transactional fraud detection engine within an agile development environment. You will collaborate with colleagues who will support and challenge you daily. Your leadership will be crucial in multiple projects focusing on full stack development of realtime transactional services RESTful APIs and containerbased distributed services that are highly available secure scalable and resilient. You will drive the development of nextgeneration software leveraging machine learning and deep learning.

We believe in selfmanaging Agile teams that build products endtoend emphasizing unit testing code reviews and continuous integration to ensure excellent code quality. You will see your code move to production within days serving a vast customer base. You will drive innovation that differentiates our products from competitors ensuring accelerated timetomarket delivery.

Key Responsibilities

**Infrastructure Design**: Design reliable performant and faulttolerant infrastructure.
**Expert Development**: Build expertise in developing highly available reliable and scalable solutions.
**Platform Assurance**: Ensure the security reliability performance and costeffectiveness of the Risk platform.
**Collaboration**: Work with product management other VISA IT groups and vendors to develop solutions for complex global business requirements.
**Standards and Governance**: Establish and ensure adherence to architectural and technical standards and processes.
**Technology Evaluation**: Identify and evaluate appropriate technology solutions to meet business and technology challenges guiding product development teams through implementation.
**Technological Evolution**: Stay abreast of evolving technologies and anticipate changes that could enhance current architectures.
**Cloud Solutions**: Design solutions for moving existing applications and services to the cloud (public and hybrid).
**Innovation**: Champion technology innovation.
**Project Creation**: Create projects features and stories for technologydriven initiatives.
**PoC Development**: Evaluate and develop Proof of Concepts (PoCs) for new technologies.
**Mentorship**: Mentor and groom developers.
**Reusable Libraries**: Guide teams in building reusable libraries and frameworks.
**Technical Presentations**: Prepare technical material and present to stakeholders.
**AI Infrastructure**: Lead and build scalable and distributed services to power AI infrastructure for deep learning platforms.
**Collaborative Development**: Work with project team members (Product Managers Architects Analysts Software Engineers Project Managers etc.) to develop and implement new datadriven business solutions.
**Technical Leadership**: Serve as a technical leader on various projects across the platform contributing significantly to the entire platforms architecture.
**EndtoEnd Development**: Drive development efforts endtoend to deliver highquality solutions on time that meet requirements conform to the architectural vision and comply with all applicable coding and security standards.
**Production Troubleshooting**: Troubleshoot production issues as needed by working closely with Product and Support Teams.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate between remote and office work. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site).

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications

• 10 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors 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

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 810 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD
• Experience in architecture and design of distributed highly scalable highly available systems
• 10 years as a technical lead in all phases of the software development life cycle
• Experience in Java software development web applications and services Spring technology standards and frameworks
• Expertise in Java experienced with REST APIs and containerbased technologies
• Experience in UI technologies (e.g. JQuery/JavaScript standards including ES6 HTML5 CSS3 and CSS4 Redux Riot.js React.js D3 is a plus)
• Experience in migrating applications to the cloud (AWS GCP or MS Azure is a plus)
• Good experience in Kafka Cassandra Spark Flink distributed cache
• Handson experience with containers and orchestration platforms such as Docker Kubernetes
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and costeffective platforms such as AWS Azure
• Experience in microservices architecture and database sharding for largescale projects
• Experience developing largescale enterpriseclass distributed systems or subsystems that require high availability low latency and strong data consistency computing
• Experience implementing solutions for lowlatency distributed services using open standard technologies
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with effective communication (both written and verbal)
• Ability to present complex ideas in a clear and concise way
• Proven experience as a technical leader with the ability to understand requirements and independently architect design and build solutions
• Passion for mentoring and helping juniors reach new heights
• Passion for Big Data and analytics leveraging technologies like Hadoop Spark Solr MapReduce
• Proficiency and ease with programming languages code quality initiatives scripting languages and operating systems
• Wellversed in GenAI technologies quick learner and adopter
• Handson experience in POC/distributed systems
• This update ensures that the candidate is not only proficient in technical security and leadership skills but also familiar with the latest Gen AI tools making them wellequipped to leverage cuttingedge technologies in their work.

Security and Encryption:

• Understanding of security requirements encryption methodologies and best practices for securing data in transit and at rest
• Experience with implementing security protocols identity and access management and data protection measures

Gen AI Tools:

• Familiarity with the latest Gen AI tools such as Copilot Claude Sonet and Bolt.new

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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime