Senior Software Engineer, New College Grad - 2024

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

Open VisaNet (OVN) is responsible for building the long-term architecture for VisaNet and the future of our core payments processing capability. OVN, 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 initiative that will help Visa support in-country processing solutions and provide Visa an opportunity to move away from Proprietary Mainframe type systems. Building Open VisaNet will involve collaboration with exceptional group of software engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts and infrastructure architects. The team develops the next generation Authorization, Clearing and Settlement functionality that horizontally scales to support Global and domestic processing.

Visa is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer who will help build 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.

Some job duties and projects could include:

• Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components.
• Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.
• Contribute to efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools.
• Ensuring proper documentation and internal publishing of design tradeoffs, code best practices and lessons learned.
• Support in triaging and troubleshooting of highly distributed services in production environment.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 2 years of relevant work experience with a Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, CIS/MIS, Cybersecurity, Business or a related field, graduating January 2023 - August 2024.
• Strong communications skills, specifically, the absence of repeated grammatical or typographical errors, clear and concise written and spoken communications, and communications that demonstrate professional judgment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of at least one programming languages like Golang, Java, C++, or Python
• Working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release
• Experience with distributed database, distributed computing and high frequency transactions is a big plus.
• Experience with Docker as software containerization platform.
• Experience with Kubernetes as container orchestration tool is a big plus.
• Experience with financial services or payments processing domain is a big plus.
• Experience with Linux operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols.
• Strong ability to collaborate
• Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented
• Good team player and excellent interpersonal skills
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected ve