Staff SW Engineer - PaaS Engineering

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: 

We are looking for dedicated 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 innovative payment technology you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions. 

Essential Functions: 

• Responsible for the architecture design development and implementation of software applications.  

• Evaluate and introduce technology tools and processes that enable Visa to develop products and solutions to embrace business opportunities and/or improve operational efficiency.  

• Develop and implement unified control center and monitoring tools to measure monitor and report on platform data availability utilization capacity trend and overall health metrics.  

• Formulate methods to enable consistent data loading and optimize data operations.  

• Monitor health of platforms generate performance reports and monitor and provide continuous improvements.  

• Ensure on-time delivery of projects production support plans and knowledge transfer for long-term supportability of upgrades enhancements and deployments.  

• Understand usage patterns and work load requirements of new projects. 

• Develop code and mentor junior developers to ensure deliverables are on time within budget and with good code quality. 
• Produce clear comprehensive and well-organized technical documentation to facilitate knowledge sharing across global teams. 
• Effectively operate as part of a globally distributed team embracing diverse perspectives time zones and cultures to achieve organizational goals.
• Develops and designs moderately advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem.
• Provides domain expertise on the development of user documentation of solutions and implements standard processes in user documentation.
• Plays a significant role in the development and delivery of new features within a product from end-to-end.
• Take responsibility for the end-to-end lifecycle of platform products including design implementation testing deployment monitoring troubleshooting and ongoing support.

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

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications
5 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors 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
Multi-disciplinary skills and experience in ideation software design programming debugging and optimization.
Experience of building REST based web services & web applications using Java and Spring framework GoLang AnglarJS
Experience writing unit and integration test cases
Solid understanding of Object-Oriented design and programming concepts
8 years of software engineering experience.
2 years of experience in technical leadership/mentoring roles.
MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
Responsible for the architecture design development and implementation of software applications.
Evaluate and introduce technology tools and processes that enable Visa to develop products and solutions embrace business opportunities and improve operational efficiency.
Develop and implement unified control center and monitoring tools to measure monitor and report on platform data availability utilization capacity trends and overall health metrics.
Formulate methods to enable consistent data loading and optimize data operations.
Monitor the health of platforms generate performance reports and provide continuous improvements.
Ensure on-time delivery of projects production support plans and knowledge transfer for the long-term supportability of upgrades enhancements and deployments.
Understand usage patterns and workload requirements of new projects.
Develop code and mentor junior developers to ensure deliverables are on time within budget and maintain good code quality.
Possess knowledge of and the ability to use database software (e.g. applications web-based applications information systems) to maintain modify and output data.
Have knowledge of systems integration processes where separately produced components or subsystems are combined and their interaction problems are addressed.
Understand data structures which consist of data organization management and storage formats enabling efficient access and modifications. This includes a collection of data values the relationships among them and the functions or operations that can be applied to the data.
Experience in all phases of development - design coding testing debugging deployment and monitoring of applications is highly preferred.
Security and Authentication standards and technologies including OAuth.
Flow diagramming and articulating the design or understanding of the code flows.
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) processes.
Flavors of GenAI: Experience and understanding of Generative AI technologies and their applications.
Agentic Framework: Understanding of the agentic framework and mindset for leveraging Generative AI.
Innovation: Ability to think creatively about how to apply GenAI to improve and innovate within the payment technology space.
Collaboration: Proven experience in working with cross-functional teams to integrate GenAI solutions into existing systems.
Network architecture Load balancers and Firewalls.


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 Python Javascript Shell/PowerShell scripting Ansible Playbooks) 
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 GENAI technologies etc. 
Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product Test Dev-ops and Agile/Scrum teams 

Additional Information :

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk communicate in person and by telephone frequently operate standard office equipment such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 124700.00 to 180650.00 USD per year which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge skills experience and location. In addition this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical Dental Vision 401 (k) FSA/HSA Life Insurance Paid Time Off and Wellness Program.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time