Staff 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 are a very exciting and fast-developing area with a lot of new and innovative ideas coming to market. With strong demand for new solutions in this space, it promises to be an exciting area of innovation. VISA is a strong leader in the payment industry and is rapidly transitioning into a technology company with significant investments in this area.

If you want to be in the exciting payment space, learn fast and make big impacts, Ecosystem & Operational Risk technology which is part of Visa’s Value-Added Services business unit is an ideal place for you!

In Ecosystem & Operational Risk group, Payment Fraud Disruption team is responsible for building critical risk and fraud detection and prevention applications and services at Visa. This includes idea generation, architecture, design, development, and testing of products, applications, and services that provide Visa clients with solutions to detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud for Visa and Visa client payment systems.

This position is ideal for an experienced software engineer who is passionate about collaborating with business and technology partners in solving challenging fraud prevention problems. You will be a key driver in the effort to define the shared strategic vision for the Payment Fraud Disruption platform and defining tools and services that safeguard Visa’s payment systems. 

The right candidate will possess strong software engineering background, with demonstrated experience in driving technical design for products and services that have created business value and delivered impact within the payments or payments risk domain or similar industries.

A successful candidate is a technical leader with the ability to engage in high bandwidth conversations with business and technology partners and be able to think broadly about Visa’s business and drive solutions that will enhance the safety and integrity of Visa’s payment ecosystem. The candidate will help deliver innovative insights to Visa's strategic products and business. This role represents an exciting opportunity to make key contributions to strategic offering for Visa. This candidate needs to have strong academic track record and be able to demonstrate excellent software engineering skills. The candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and excellent collaboration skills.

The ideal candidate will bring the excitement and passion to leverage Generative AI to advance existing fraud detection mechanisms and to innovate and solve new fraud use cases. This engineer will use code generation capabilities like GitHub copilot to drive efficiencies in software development. 

Essential Functions

• As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help design, enhance, and build next generation fraud detection platforms in an agile development environment.

• You will play part of multiple teams tasked with projects ranging from full stack development, Rest based APIs, Container based services to highly functional, secure, scalable, and resilient systems.

• You will lead teams/projects functionally and will be responsible for delivering to Ecosystem and Operation Risk roadmap commitments.

• Contribute to release planning exercise, assign, and track work of team members to timely releases.

• Responsibilities include technical analysis and creation of conceptual approach.

• Develop code that complies with design specifications and meets security and Java best practices.

• Coding must adhere security standards, be easily maintainable and be high performant.

• Set Coding standards and best practices for the teams’ deliverables.

• Evaluate options and provide recommendation on scope and scale of effort required to implement final requirements.

• Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to standards, best practices, and development methodolo