Lead Software Engineer

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

As a Lead Software Engineer in the Value Added Services – Issuing Solutions organization, you will enjoy the opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment where your expertise and leadership are valued as you help to modernize the future of the Issuer Processing Platform.   

To prepare Visa for the future and to better serve our clients, it is crucial that we possess the necessary skills, structure and processes that will allow us to create, develop and deliver top-tier products and solutions.  You will be challenged with ideating, designing, developing, testing and implementing products, services and applications that continue to differentiate our processing capabilities from our competitors.   

This position is ideal for an experienced software engineer who is passionate about solving challenging problems and building secure, resilient, efficient and reliable solutions.  Engineers in this role will be extensively involved in driving hands-on software engineering activities including proof-of-concept, design, documentation, development, testing and implementation of new functionality as well as refactoring existing solutions.   

Essential Functions: 

• Collaborate with project team members (Product Owners, Architects, Analysts, Engineers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure design, development and implementation of solutions 

• Drive the development and implementation of secure, high quality, on-time solutions that conform to the vision of the future state of processing and integrate across the technical ecosystem 

• Present technical solutions, capabilities and features to address identified requirements, problems and challenges 

• Incorporate security, reliability and resiliency into all stages of the development lifecycle  

• Facilitate knowledge transfer amongst peers and partners regarding solution architecture, design, implementation and delivery 

• Cultivate, support and promote an organizational culture that provides for high performance, high morale, integrity and teamwork 

Skills You Bring: 

• Energy and Experience – A growth mindset that is both curious and passionate about technology and enjoy challenging projects at a global scale 

• Challenge the Status Quo – Comfort in pushing the boundaries beyond traditional solutions 

• Language Expertise – Expertise in one or more general development languages (Java, C#, C++, Python, .NET etc.) 

• Builder – Experience building and deploying modern services and applications with quality, security, resiliency and scalability in focus 

• Learner – Constant drive to learn new technologies 

• Partner – Experience collaborating with Product, Test, DevOps, SRE, Scrum/Agile teams, Internal and External partners 

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. 

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Electrical or other relevant engineering field
Proven record of defining technology roadmap, executing defined technology strategies and driving adoption across a large enterprise
Extensive experience architecting, designing, developing, and implementing large