Software Engineer- Senior Consultant Level (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.

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

Job Description

About Global Commercial Payments Platform – B2B Connect

We are working on multiple technology stacks and want to add a highly motivated Lead Engineer to our Commercial Payments organization in Foster City, CA. Visa's Commercial Payments organization is responsible for managing Visa's B2B Payment Global adoption on Cross-Border funds movement, innovation agenda and the management of strategic partnerships with critical financial institutions. 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

You can learn more about our work here:

Visa B2B Connect Launches in 32 Countries

Visa B2B Connect Launches Globally

Essential Functions

•              Work on emerging technologies, building highly scalable, secure, reliable and fault tolerant distributed systems

•              Leads collaboration with stakeholders (e.g., product owner, project manager, technical lead, architects) and uses understanding of tradeoffs and project costs to determine requirements for a project. 

•              Proactively seeks clarification on non-functional requirements (NFR) to understand their impact on the system. Leads junior engineers in understanding requirements across solution delivery.

•              Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.

•              Leads discussions for architecture of products/solutions, helps to refine code plans, and shares learnings and identified solutions from investigations with the team.

•              Provides recommendations on scope and scale of project plans and uses technical expertise to inform the elements of release plans and work items across end-to-end solutions, using knowledge of different methodologies. 

•              Leads by example and provides direction for others to produce extensible, testable, and maintainable code used across products.

•              Creates and applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns, guidelines, styles, and best practices. 

•              Drives and contributes to revisions to the security assessment process to ensure code is free from threat or risk

•              Find opportunities to create, design and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability and resiliency

•              Provides technical leadership during code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed for a product

•              Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products, sharing knowledge with and mentoring other engineers. Proactively seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products, sharing knowledge

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:
• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree in Math, S