Staff Software Engineer (6 - 9 years of experience in Java full stack development with Angular / React, Springboot, Kafka)

Overview

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.

At Visa, the Corporate Information Technology, Revenue & Pricing team, enables Visa's revenue growth through flexible rule-based pricing engines and global revenue platforms built on next-generation technologies. This includes managing system requirements, evaluating cutting-edge technologies, design, development, integration, quality assurance, implementation and maintenance of corporate revenue applications.

The candidate will work on designing, developing and implementing applications that improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Finance business function. The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in developing (coding) solutions for functionally complex, large volume, high throughput financial systems. This role will be responsible for building techno functional designs, coding and mentoring developers and testers for successful delivery of business capabilities.

The candidate should enjoy working on diverse technologies and should be excited to take initiatives to solve complex business problems and get the job done while taking on new challenges. You should thrive in team-oriented and fast-paced environments where each team-member is vital to the overall success of the projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop solutions for mission critical large revenue systems, including transaction processing, pricing, rating, billing. Responsibilities include analysis, creation of technical designs, development, unit testing and support activities.
• Design and Build applications using a variety of frontend and backend technologies.
• Design and build applications with high level of scalability, resiliency, and monitoring.
• Review designs and code developed by other developers to ensure quality of deliverables.
• Work closely with business partners, TPMs and Product managers to drive and or facilitate user story grooming, functional and technical specifications, workflow designs, use cases and process re-engineering.
• Manage complex application dependencies.
• Define and refine engineering best practices and mentor junior team members for their adoption.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and proactively assess and evaluate the adoption thereof into the organization.
• Conduct POCs to prove concepts and select best solution approach.
• Work with limited direction, usually within a complex environment, to drive delivery of solutions and meet service levels.
• Must be self-motivated with ability to work in a fast-paced agile delivery model.
• With active engagement, collaboration, effective communication, quality, integrity, and reliable delivery, develop and maintain a trusted and valued relationship with the team, customers, and technology partners.
• Holding yourself, your team, and peers/partners accountable, deliver on business needs with crisp planning and execution of projects.
• Support agile activities like sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint review and sprint retrospective.
• Productively work with teams in multiple geographical locations and time zones.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualification:

• 6 - 9 years or more of relevant experience in application development and implementation (designing, coding) Java based applications with exposure to both front end development frameworks and back-end processes
• Bachelor's degree in a Computer Science or other Engineering discipline
• Expertise in core Java, scripting, Hibernate, JavaScript, NoSQL, Oracle Database and Design Patterns
• At least 3 of experience building applications on one of the modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, Node JS or React
• At least 3 years of experience building applications using Spring Boot
• Experience in developing and architecting large-scale, production-grade applications
• Experience in developing and implementing AI systems and algorithms is a plus
• Practical experience in data modeling, data warehousing, and developing ETL processes using tools such as Talend is a significant plus
• Familiar with parallel or distributed systems
• Experience with metrics and evaluation for large systems
• Experience with agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, and Jenkins
• Ability to create wireframes and responsive designs that result in a great user experience
• Expert building web applications from the ground up
• Experience in NoSQL such as MongoDB and Cassandra or in PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of common data structures and ability to write efficient code in Python
• Demonstrated knowledge of RDBMs and SQL with experience in building complex database queries based on the understanding of the data model is a big plus
• Experience with messaging systems, including Kafka or Active MQ will be a plus
• Enjoy working fast and smart, and able to grasp complex concepts to design and build algorithms from scratch
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and leadership skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way
• Ability to work in a complex organization to determine business and customer needs, providing the best solution to meet those needs
• Strong teamwork focus and the ability to foster collaboration within and across teams
• Passionate about learning and applying new technologies and takes pride in delivering working software
• Candidate must be able to proficiently multi-task and be able to work independently or in a team environment
  
  

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.