Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant level

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Join the Future of Payments at Visa!

Are you ready to shape the future of payments and work with cutting-edge technology? Visa is at the forefront of a rapidly evolving industry, investing heavily in innovative solutions. We're looking for highly motivated developers to join our team and work on both groundbreaking products and modernizing existing systems.

Why Visa?

The payment industry is evolving at a rapid pace, with countless innovative ideas transforming the market. Visa is a leading force in this space, making significant strides in becoming a tech-driven company. If you're excited about working in a dynamic environment that promises innovation for the next 5 to 10 years, Visa is the place to be.

Your Role

As a part of the Risk and Identity Solutions (RaIS) team, you will be responsible for developing critical risk and fraud prevention applications and services. Your work will involve:

• Idea Generation & Architecture: Contribute to the brainstorming, design, and architecture of new solutions.
• Development & Testing: Develop and test applications using bleeding-edge AI tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other homegrown solutions.
• Innovation & Impact: Design new software solutions or refactor existing ones to enhance performance and maintainability, all while making a significant impact on our products and services.

What We Offer:

• Innovative Environment: Work with cutting-edge AI tools and technologies.
• Professional Growth: Opportunities to learn and grow in a fast-paced industry.
• Impactful Work: Play a key role in preventing fraud and enhancing security for Visa and its clients.
• Hybrid Work Model: This position offers a flexible hybrid work environment. Employees can alternate time between remote and office work. Typically, you'll be expected to work from the office 2-3 days a week, with the goal of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Ideal Candidates

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Consultant Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will demonstrate expertise in architecture, platform performance improvement, and data analytics for decision-making, with a strong background in databases. This role requires a proactive individual who can lead and collaborate across teams to design, develop, and optimize robust and scalable solutions

Key Responsibilities

Architecture and Design

• Lead the design and development of system architectures for various product components, ensuring alignment with business and technical requirements.
• Translate functional and non-functional requirements into comprehensive system designs, explaining how components interact across teams.
• Conduct design reviews and guide junior team members, ensuring adherence to non-functional requirements (NFRs) and architectural standards.
• Identify and mitigate risks in solutions, communicating potential impacts to senior engineers and stakeholders.

Platform Performance Improvement

• Leverage data analysis and statistical techniques to identify patterns, trends, and defects impacting platform performance.
• Optimize applications and solutions by implementing performance enhancements based on insights from data and telemetry analyses.
• Pilot new technology capabilities and features to enhance user experience and system efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement automation that increases the effectiveness and efficiency of systems and tools.

Data and Analytics for Decision Making

• Utilize advanced knowledge of data analysis to review and interpret complex issues affecting multiple components, proposing and implementing solutions.
• Define critical metrics and measures to assess the feasibility and performance of delivery across multiple features and capabilities.