Senior Software 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

Payments has become a very active/hot area in the last couple of years, creating a strong demand for innovation. This will be a very exciting area in the next 5 to 10 years. Not only is VISA a leader in the payment industry and has been for a long time, but it is also quickly transitioning into a technology company that is fostering an environment for applying the latest technology to solve exciting problems in this area. For a payment system to work well, the risk techniques, performance, and scalability are critical. These techniques and systems can benefit from big data, data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, & many other advance technologies and in VISA, we have all of these. If you want to be in the exciting payment space, learn fast, and make big impacts, Acceptance Solution Platform team within Enterprise Payments Platform group VISA is an ideal place for you!

As a Sr Software Engineer for the Austin Payments Platform team,  you will be part of a very unique team that is privileged to work on the newest and coolest containerized technologies available.  You will be part of a team that doesn’t just use the cloud….you will create it!

• You will help our customers deliver financial payment solutions by understanding their requirements and responding to their business needs.
• You will use technologies that include Java, REST, Docker and more.
• You will be familiar with relational and noSQL databases and in-memory caches.
• You will analyze business requirements and architect a scalable, secure and reliable solution along with the technical documentation of solution.
• You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Above all, you are a team player who delivers new software features during each sprint!

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:

• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD) University Recruiting  Only: Master’s Degree without experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• You are a Java, Java EE expert with relevant experience designing and building large scale enterprise Java applications.
• You have experience with REST APIs, JSON and exposure to container based technologies.
• You have experience in application development frameworks like Vert.x, Spring etc and have knowledge of Asynchronous programming.
• You understand the Security requirements and standards, and contemporary trends in Security risks as well as technologies.
• You have experience in the security domain with authentication, authorization and building secure gateway.
• You have strong experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Crucible, Sonar, Junit.
• You can learn the customer requirements and our processes and ideate creative solutions and improvements.

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 c