Lead Java Software Engineer

Visas Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the worlds 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 youll 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: 

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer leading the Settlement & Offline Processing division in the Acceptance Solutions organization you will be the driving force behind technological innovation and project execution. Youll spearhead the release strategy ensuring that every delivery aligns seamlessly with our business strategy focusing particularly on innovative payment acceptance and integrated commerce management. Setting the gold standard for engineering excellence your role will be pivotal in architecting designing and launching the next generation of enterprise FinTech innovation. Your technical expertise will be the guiding light illuminating the path to groundbreaking advancements in our field.

Essential Functions:

• Collaborates with Solution or Enterprise Architects to translate architecture into a delivered solution that realizes the vision and purpose.

• Effectively translates functional and non- functional requirements into an engineered solution.

• Provides the technical guidance the project needs to meet the wider goals of the org strategy.

• To be successful in the role you will be required to have deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals micro-services monolithic applications and its related technologies multi-tiered architecture and specific experience in designing complex solutions for processing 5000 TPS with 99.999% availability and highly resilient systems.

• Leads and supports both product and technical discussions about how to apply existing and/or new technology in support of the business.

• Leverage AI/ML technologies in bringing productivity across the SDLC phases and develop innovative business solutions and products.

• In addition to the technical skill set and passion for learning new technologies the candidate will be a self-starter results-driven and equipped with excellent verbal and written communication skills to interface with leadership within Visa external teams & stakeholders.

• Coach/Mentor others through informal sessions such as brown bags and tech talks.

• Understands how a project fits into the overall technology roadmap and communicate to the team to help establish buy-in and ownership.

• Takes ownership and/or leads the engineering responsibility for multiple components in a project.

• Provides consultative work throughout the project lifecycle to ensure vision and goal of project is realized through delivery.

• Is able to coordinate engineering activities across the delivery of the project.

• Works with engineers to ensure they are delivering quality and efficiently against project requirements

• Successful candidate will have a flair for out-of-box thinking and be passionate about mentoring and coaching junior software engineers. Candidate should also have passion for engineering excellence reducing TCO and improving TTM.

**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 didnt work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

• Relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree Advanced degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or a PhD with relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A wealth of hands-on experience and deep knowledge/expertise in software product development of following technologies/frameworks: Java/J2EE Spring Hibernate RDBMS NoSQL DB Kafka VertX TC Server Containers based Backend REST APIs Applications.
• Experience in designing/architectural horizontally scalable multi-tenant backend application
• Balances time between active coding related activities design coordination mentoring project management and/or leading same.
• Experience in deployment and distribution lifecycle with automated and scalable CI/CD tools including Jenkins Maven Stash is a must.
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.
• Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting and root-cause analysisin a complex and interconnect systems.
• Hands-on experience in AI particularly Generative AI is highly preferred.
• A go-getter who is not overwhelmed by new technology tight timelines or parallel projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills interpersonal and presentation skills and proven ability to influence and communicate effectively

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 :

Full-time