Lead 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

Join the forefront of payment innovation with the VISA Risk and Identity Solutions team! As the payment industry rapidly evolves, VISA stands out as a leader transitioning into a technology powerhouse. We are seeking skilled technologists for our Risk and Identity Solutions team within the Value Added Services (VAS) organization. This role involves ideation, architecture, design, development, and testing of products that combat fraud in Visa and client payment systems. Ideal for an experienced software engineer passionate about solving complex fraud prevention challenges, this position requires a strong background in software engineering. The successful candidate will contribute to defining the strategic vision, creating tools, and enhancing the safety of Visa's payment ecosystem. If you're ready to make impactful contributions to Visa's strategic offerings, bring your innovative insights, and leverage cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI and GitHub Copilot, we invite you to join us. This role promises exciting opportunities for those who thrive in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

Essential Functions

• You will lead initiatives to architect, enhance, and build next generation products in an agile development environment
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner
• Write software code that complies with design specifications and meets security and Java/J2EE best practices that will meet development and support requirements
• Evaluate cutting edge technologies, drive towards adoption, create proof-of-concept and frameworks
• Participate in all stages of development from design through implementation
• Understand current posture of product ecosystem and specifics for VAS PD's solutions
• Serve as subject matter expert for the major components and application domains.
• Drive projects that involve full stack development using Java, Spring, Microservices, Rest based APIs, frontend frameworks like ReactJS and Spark/Scala based processing on Hadoop platform
• Drive solution architecture and technical architecture with product owners, engineers, and technical product managers to scale products to highly functional, secure, performant and resilient platforms
• Excel in partnership with technical product managers, project managers and product leaders on requirements workshops and grooming, and help define joint product/technology roadmap
• Drive release planning exercise, track development and testing to timely releases
• Contribute to financial planning and roadmap planning for new and existing initiatives
• Collaborate across engineering teams and leaders in VAS, Operations, and Infrastructure (O&I), security and platform teams.
• Enable and inspire teams to an innovation mindset, high levels of engagement and performance
• Develop a culture of high levels of accountability and ownership with the team
• Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, application design, and implementing large components for enterprise projects
• Communicate for success with partners in program management, product office, operations, and other stakeholders
• Strong SDLC background in Agile/Iterative practices
• Develop and measure design, code governance and delivery practices to achieve consistent high-quality releases
• Coach/Mentor Junior engineers
• Help hire top software engineers
• Manage multiple projects and initiatives with competing timelines and demands.
• Act decisively on continuous improvements to processes/tools for better developer efficiency and productivity
• Lead product development with engineering teams across multiple geographies

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in h