Chief Software Engineer (Hybrid/Onsite)

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.

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Job Description

Visa is looking for a hands-on and versatile Chief Software Engineer for the Open VisaNet Engineering team. This individual will act as one of the key technology leaders within the organization to provide oversight in building Open VisaNet, Visa's Next generation payment processing platform developed on Open Systems, that would fuel growth in electronic payments globally and drive financial inclusion in many parts of the world. 

Open VisaNet, is the Next Generation VisaNet, will push the envelope of building highly scalable, secure, cost effective and distributed application on commodity hardware using best-in-class technology components. Open VisaNet is one of Visa's Key initiatives that will help Visa support in-country processing solutions and provide Visa an opportunity to move away from Proprietary Mainframe type systems. It is built as a modern distributed architecture based on micro services with goals of five 9’s availability, fault tolerance, horizontal scalability and real time latency for largest scale transaction processing. Open VisaNet leverages state of the art Open Software technologies to achieve these goals on commodity hardware, such as Go, Kafka, Kubernetes, Splunk etc. and involves collaboration with exceptional group of software engineers, systems performance engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts, infrastructure, and solution architects.

Essential Functions

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Thought Leadership: Providing technical vision and roadmap for application delivery of Open VisaNet.

• Driving Change: Driving the change in technology to help the application excel. As a Chief engineer will be responsible for finding the right solution in pre-development phase or during the development phase of delivery cycle. In future establish the feedback loop from production to non-production environments. Leading the efforts for code review and design reviews. Champion delivery best practices.

• Drive Innovation:  Pioneer innovative solutions or extend an existing solution to ensure the project needs to meet the wider goals of the strategy. Contribute to GenAI innovation across the organization.  Oversee cloud migration and optimization on AWS, Azure, or GCP to ensure solutions are resilient, scalable, cost-effective, and secure.

• Sustain Quality: Building a sustainable framework for delivering quality product.  This will involve reviewing and highlighting patterns which are sustainable for highly performant and secured distributed system, which can linearly scale to handle large volume. 

• Build Reliability and Performance: Review design and code for reliability and performance. Identify KPI and ensure all releases meet the target KPI.

• Building scalable system: Ensure deliverables are scalable and design itself is scalable. Define boundaries of scalability.

• Champion Security best practices: Become a security champion by owning the responsibility of component security. Collaborate with Cyber security teams to implement and verify secure coding techniques.

• Mentoring and building next-gen leaders:  Build next generation of tech leads. Organize sessions for knowledge sharing. Building an environment for learning and adoption of right technologies. Be the influencer who breaks status quo and brings change to achieve challenging goals. The person should be a fast learner and must be aware of current trends in the industry. 

• Leading POC Efforts:  Lead discussions around choice of technology or process. Lead POC efforts for decisioning on the choice of right product for all business use-cases.  Work with architects and operations teams on measuring and cost estimating the infrastructural needs for new projects and future enhancements.

• Collaboration: Collaborate with internal and external teams to provide guidance to OVN delivery teams.

• Communication: Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, including ability to effectively communicate architectural issues and concepts to multiple organization levels and executive management. 

• Champion agile best practices: Open Visa