Staff SW Engineer - PaaS Engineering

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

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity: 

We are looking for dedicated, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale.  As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of innovative payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions. 

Essential Functions: 

• Responsible for the architecture, design, development, and implementation of software applications.  

• Evaluate and introduce technology tools and processes that enable Visa to develop products and solutions, to embrace business opportunities and/or improve operational efficiency.  

• Develop and implement unified control center and monitoring tools to measure, monitor, and report on platform, data availability, utilization, capacity trend, and overall health metrics.  

• Formulate methods to enable consistent data loading and optimize data operations.  

• Monitor health of platforms, generate performance reports, and monitor and provide continuous improvements.  

• Ensure on-time delivery of projects, production support plans, and knowledge transfer for long-term supportability of upgrades, enhancements, and deployments.  

• Understand usage patterns and work load requirements of new projects. 

• Develop code and mentor junior developers to ensure deliverables are on time, within budget, and with good code quality. 
• Produce clear, comprehensive, and well-organized technical documentation to facilitate knowledge sharing across global teams. 
• Effectively operate as part of a globally distributed team, embracing diverse perspectives, time zones, and cultures to achieve organizational goals.
• Develops and designs moderately advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable, considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem.
• Provides domain expertise on the development of user documentation of solutions and implements standard processes in user documentation.
• Plays a significant role in the development and delivery of new features within a product from end-to-end.
• Take responsibility for the end-to-end lifecycle of platform products, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and ongoing support.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

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
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Multi-disciplinary skills and experience in ideation, software design, programming, debugging, and optimization.
• Experience of building REST based web services & web applications using Java and Spring framework, GoLang, AnglarJS
• Experience writing unit and integration test cases
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented design and programming concepts
• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience in technical leadership