Sr. Staff SW Engineer

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.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will be part of our Risk, Authentication & Identity Solutions team to help design, enhance and build our Advanced Risk Platform in an agile development environment. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. You will take leadership roles working on multiple projects building full stack development of real-time transactional services, RESTful APIs and Container based distributed services that are highly available, secure, scalable and resilient. You will spearhead development of next generation software based on machine learning and deep learning. We believe in self-managing Agile teams who build products end to end focusing on unit testing, code reviews and continuous integration for excellent code quality. You will see the code written and moved to production within just a few days, to then be used by a huge customer base. You will be driving innovation that makes our products stand apart from our competitors and delight the customer with accelerated time-to-market delivery.

If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit.

Essential Functions

• Design and build infrastructure and microservices that help index, mine, transform, and compose PB sized deep learning datasets.

• Lead and build scalable and distributed services.

• Collaborate with project team members (Product Managers, Architects, Analysts, Software Engineers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure development and implementation of new data driven business solutions.

• Design the next generation of fraud management services for real and synthetic / simulated datasets.

• Design high volume high throughput multi-tenant cloud ready distributed system at a scale.

• Collaborate with multiple teams to understand their requirements and build a platform infrastructure that improves productivity.

•  Be a technical leader on various projects across the platform and be a major contributor of the entire platform’s architecture.

• Drive development effort End-to-End for on-time delivery of high-quality solutions that conform to requirements, conform to the architectural vision, and comply with all applicable coding and security standards.

• Collaborate with senior technical staff and PM to identify, document, plan contingency, track and manage risks and issues until all are resolved.

• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner

• Coach and mentor junior engineers on the team and help get them unblocked.

• Troubleshoot Production Issues as needed by working closely with Product and Support Teams

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
• You have proven experience leading teams that have delivered high quality large scale enterprise class applications.
• You are a Java expert experienced with REST APIs and container-based technologies. Strong on elegant coding,