Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant level

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 has become a very active/hot area in the last couple of years, creating a strong demand for innovation. This will be a very exciting area in the next 5 to 10 years. Not only is VISA a leader in the payment industry and has been for a long time, but it is also quickly transitioning into a technology company that is fostering an environment for applying the latest technology to solve exciting problems in this area. For a payment system to work well, the risk techniques, performance, and scalability are critical. These techniques and systems can benefit from big data, data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, & many other advance technologies and in VISA, we have all of these. If you want to be in the exciting payment space, learn fast, and make big impacts, Real Time Payment Prevent team within Risk & Identity Service group in VISA is an ideal place for you!

What we expect of you, day to day.

• You will be part of Visa’s RTP Prevent team who will focus on creating new capabilities forRisk Platform. We are looking for a technically expert engineer for our team based out our Austin office to assure client success in using our product.

• This role requires quick troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, logical thinking, and application of programming techniques to design, build, and maintain solution for clients. Deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals, mobile & web technologies, multi-tiered architecture and experience in tools development. In addition to the technical skill set and passion for learning new technology, the candidate will be a self-starter, results-driven, and equipped with excellent verbal and written communication skills to interface with external teams & stakeholders. Successful candidate will have a flair for out-of-box thinking and be passionate about mentoring and coaching junior software engineers.

​The Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant level is a senior level technical role, and therefore the successful candidate will be able to work independently on multiple tasks, working very closely with the engineering leads, product manager, and client support teams.

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 does not support immigration for this role.

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8 years of experience with Masters Degree OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
• 13+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 10 or more years of relevant experience with Masters Degree
• Expert in at least one of the following: Java, Golang
• Experience with web service standards and related patterns (REST, gRPC)
• Experience developing large scale, enterprise class distributed system or subsystems that require high availability, low latency, & strong data consistency computing
• Understanding and hands-on experience implementing microservices
• Experience implementing solutions for low-latency, distributed services using open standard technologies
• Experience with Big Data and analytics in general leveraging technologies like Hadoop, Spark, and MapReduce a plus
• Experience with distributed caching technologies like REDIS
• Experience architecting solutions with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in mind
• Ability to influence Sr. Leadership and other partners in Visa on direction of engineering efficiencies through data, roadmaps, short/long term plans, etc.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership ski