Lead Software Engineer

As a Lead Software Engineer focused on Risk you are not just a technical leader.  You are a trailblazer a software expert who pushes boundaries and drives transformation across our Risk platforms.  You will work in tandem with other innovative minds providing technical leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams.  Your mission  To design and deliver complex Risk products that maintain our edge in fintech.

Your understanding of business capabilities strategic drivers and specifically the deep understanding of engineering will be pivotal in steering the technical teams.  You will sculpt the target state solution and any interim state architectures setting the stage for our strategic journey.

You are aware of the service inter-dependencies across the Visa and partner environments and thrive in this complexity.  You will craft flexible and extensible architecture that drives security scalability reliability and performance to new heights.

You are not only a contributor but a catalyst in the ongoing evolution of our enterprise architecture. You will enable agility and help us achieve our strategic Integrated Risk Platform initiative.

Responsibility

• Technical leadership for the team and influence over the team for technology and design choices.

• Review existing architecture and design and make recommendations.  Craft architecture for new Issuing Risk products.

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visas internal standards for scalability security and reliability.

• Collaborate across functions and other Visa teams to create design and code artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for Visas Risk offerings.

• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user issuers consumers and Fraud subject matter experts. 

• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Risk Services product.

• Analyze patterns with defects and code implementation to ensure high availability reliability scalability and security.

• Plan and execute proofs of concept to pilot new technologies.

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

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.
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 looking beyond
traditional solutions.
Language Expertise - Expertise in one or more general development languages
(e.g. Java Go)
Builder - Deep experience building and deploying modern services and web
applications with quality and scalability
Learner - Constant drive to learn new techniques and technologies.
Partnership - Experience with influencing Product Dev-ops and Scrum teams.

Preferred Qualifications
12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 8-10 years of
experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 6 years
of work experience with a PhD
Knowledge of and ability to develop back-end code (Java Go) and front-end
code (React) in support of product development.
Interest in and understanding of GenAI and its application in support of product
design and development.

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 160600.00 to 232900.00 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 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