Company Description Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.
When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.
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Job Description Visa Risk and Identity Product Development team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to be part of a world-class team of software and systems engineers to deliver client-ready solutions by building the next generation of systems, automation and tools to support overall productivity and developer efficiencies. You will be part of strategy, vision and technical leadership to ensure engineering teams are building products that use a foundational approach that prioritizes high availability and security.
You will be responsible for mentoring top engineering talent, keeping the team highly engaged and motivated while delivering exceptional results. Your ability to work across functions and teams will allow you to drive results and foster the right culture and environment to achieve Engineering Excellence and Innovation. You will be responsible for working with product development, quality engineering, security engineering, enterprise operations and other internal and external technology partners to deliver products for business integration & enablement.
Essential Functions:
Provide technical guidance within Visa Technology Compliance Policies on tools development, automation, system stability, availability and overall integration strategies and plans.
Own system technical design discussions with global teams to ensure business and technical requirements are understood and properly documented and implemented, including understanding customer scenarios.
Keep executive management informed of progress and any obstacles of development, Releases and risks to Visa and to its customers.
Apply creative thinking/approaches to determine the best solutions that further support developer efficiency.
Partner with product development and application architecture teams to drive the evolution of availability, across VMs and Containers.
Establish clear, aligned goals and direction provide candid feedback and coaching to maximize team competency, support career management and development of direct reports.
Achieve Operational/Engineering Excellence - availability, stability, efficiency, with an availability first mindset directed towards all product development efforts.
Lead the development team in all aspects of SW development and service delivery
Mentor junior engineers
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:
• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• Experience with tools development, automation CI/CD, Auto Deployment, System Availability, etc..
• Extended experience in Agile Release Management practices, governance, and planning.
• Ability to quickly identify and manage/mitigate risks.
• Ability to influence Senior Leadership on direction of engineering efficiencies and integration management through data, roadmaps, short/long term plans, etc.
• Strong ability to build and sustain working and strategic relationships across technology.
• Experience with large-scale systems with both VM and Container based multi data-center active active solutions, external 3rd parties such as Akamai, Cloud Fare, etc. and how to bring the solution together into a single view.
• Must have a solid understanding of latest web technologies TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, REST, SOAP, XML, JSON and other relevant API standards like OAuth, SAML.
• Extensive technical experience with full stack HTTP, JAVA REST APIs, JSON, databases, Java and web frameworks at scale.
• Experience with both NoSQL and SQL datastores including Oracle, Cassandra, MySQL, MongoDB
• Experience in eCommerce systems.
• Experience within container space, understands and able to quickly build and drive team to support future systems.
• Strong leadership skills with demonstrated ability to lead global, cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to maintain composure under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Must have experience in debugging and troubleshooting in Linux/Unix/Container based application servers such as Tomcat, VertX, WebSphere, Docker, Kubernetes environments.
• Good to have experience setting up test setup and strategy in cloud infrastructure & technologies.
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.