Sr. Staff Software Engineer- Backend (Java) (Hybrid)

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.

Please Note: *This position is based in our Austin, TX office. Visa isnotoffering fully remote roles at this time. We use a hybrid work model in office 2-3 times weekly).*

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Payment & Platform technology team, you will pave the way for our most important asset, our engineers, to deliver amazing features with highest quality. You will be working with colleagues, who will help, support and challenge you every day. You will play part of teams tasked with multiple projects ranging from building full stack development of real-time transactional services, REST services API, Container based services to highly functional, secure, scalable and resilient real API gateway.You will see the code written going to production in few days and used by huge customer base including Apple, Facebook, Nike , Emirates... If this sounds exciting, we would love to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment.

We expect our Sr Staff Engineer to do much more than just leading and managing multiple teams

Essential Functions

• Provide technical leadership and oversee product development teams to build and deliver best in class real time, event driven, containerized solutions.
• Be the ambassador for engineering best practice across the development lifecycle and champion Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Take a hands-on role in influencing and guiding day-to-day development activities by leading architecture decisions, participating in designs, design review, code review, and implementation.
• Develop containerized Core Java and Vert.x solutions.
• Champion Agile to inspire change and continuous improvement throughout the delivery process
• Create design documents, code, unit/functional test, document and implement new programs and subprograms, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software.
• Development and Implementation of highly available and scalable applications.
• Able to understand the positioning of a solution within the company and to build consensus to effectively gain buy-in from all participants/stakeholders.
• Partner with Architecture, Developers and Operations teams to build highly available and scalable applications.
• Coordinate engineering activities across the delivery of the project and work with engineers to ensure they are delivering quality and efficiently against project requirements.
• Have significant influence on our commercial software development on Unix/Linux
• Be at the forefront of developing and architecting event based Realtime software solutions leveraged by Visa, CyberSource, and over a million different merchants solving real world problems.
• Leads and/or supports both product and technical discussions about how to apply existing and/or new technology in support of the business.
• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards, processes, and systems.

Flex Work Arrangement - Hybrid Position - 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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Basic Qualifications

• 10 years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

• 12-15 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
• You have proven ability to define needs, develop plans, coordinate resources and implement action plans.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously & to resolve scheduling & other conflicts in order to meet all deadlines.
• Thorough understanding of Container based architecture for Cloud such as Docker
• Experience in building and establishing elastic scalability architectural patterns for web applications.
• Sound understanding of Service and IT operations management, and DevOps model, good knowledge of Deployment, Capacity Planning
• Strong understanding of Enterprise Integration using web services, REST
• Experience in Distributed Caches and other Distributed System
• Experience in design and development of Event driven steams
• Experience in development of API gateway and Microservices
• Understand the Security requirements and standards, and contemporary trends in security risks as well as technologies.
• Experience in high volume, real time communication systems for multiple channels including, email, SMS and web-hooks.
• Experience in high volume real time streaming systems.
• Experience in streaming solutions from an architectural viewpoint and from a implementation view point.
• Experience in real time monitoring for critical system related to Automated Active Active response.
• Expert level experience in Grafana, Graphite ,Prometheus and other leading monitoring systems.
• Experience with a variety of development methodologies and mature understanding of the
• strengths and weaknesses of each. Solid experience with Agile methods is a plus.
• Superior verbal, written & interpersonal communication skills with both technical & non-technical audiences.
• Experience in coaching engineers both on technical and career development
• Excellent team player, with strong collaboration skills and ability to influence cross-functional team for results
• Focus on building an efficient and collaborative team environment

Benefits:

• Immigration sponsorship and relocation assistance are not supported for this position*

Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position is eligible that includes

• Medical, Dental, Vision,
• FSH/HSA,
• 401(k) (Double matching),
• Life Insurance,
• Paid Time Off (vacation, and volunteer time)
• Wellness Program

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel5-10% 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 veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.