Staff Data Engineer, Global Commercial Payments Platform

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

About Global Commercial Payments Platform

We are working on Distributed Ledger technology and want to add a highly motivated Engineer to our Commercial Payments organization in Austin, TX. Visa's Commercial Payments organization is responsible for managing Visa's B2B Payment innovation agenda, initiatives and the management of strategic partnerships with critical financial institutions. This would require techniques and systems that can benefit and leverage big data, data mining, data pipelines to optimize existing processes and frameworks for higher availability, scalability and resiliency. This group is responsible for defining and building the Non-Card based payment innovation and product for Visa Inc. Globally. This includes:

• Distributed-Ledger based Cross border payment platform
• Near time Settlement 
• Enterprise ID stamping to create a digital identity for corporate entities
• Hyperledger chain-code development
• End-to-End Payment eco-system 
• Analytics and Data visualization
• Common framework services
  • File Transfers
  • Active-Active Availability

You can learn more about our work here:

Visa B2B Connect Launches in 32 Countries

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Essential Functions

• Work on emerging technologies, building distributed applications.
• 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.
• 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 standards. 
• Explore data / model data to better understand the behavior of data used in analytics and automated reports.
• Develop automated application and data quality monitoring and alerting to prevent negative user experience.
• 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.
• Partner with Product on implementation strategy.

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:
• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
• BS in Computer Science
• 4+ years of experience with distributed software development.
• 4+ years of industry experience in product companies
• Expertise in at least two of the following: Java, Go. Scala, Python,
• Exposure to leading-edge areas such as Machine Learning, Big Data, Distributed Systems or SRE.
• Familiarity with web service standards and related patterns (REST, gRPC)
• Experience with Linux, Open source, C++ or Java, client-server apps
• Experience with container strategies and ecosystems such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience using Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Test Automation
• Experience with Distributed Ledger is a plus
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