Chief Software Engineer

Company DescriptionVisa 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 DescriptionVisa’s Technology Organization is a collaborative community of problem solvers and innovators dedicated to reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of individuals.The Global Token Services (GTS) organization embodies a key inflection point on Visa's mission to be the best place to pay andbe paid. Token based payments have grown to represent over 50% of all payments authorized on VisaNet and remains a key growth area for us as we seek to digitize all consumer credentials and payments, supporting seamless and secure financial transactions across the globe.As a Chief Software engineer for the VISA GTS team, you will provide technology leadership to build the next generation of tokenization technologies. You will get the opportunity to work on complex distributed systems and lead massive scale projects centered on new payment flows while collaborating with product and architecture partners. You will drive technical expertise for strategic projects aligned to business strategy and contribute to GenAI innovation across the organization Essential Functions:Drives the architecture for key cross team / cross product development projects (via architecture/design documents and developing code key modules).Establishes software development patterns and best practices via examples and shipping code.Ensures that all relevant project teams follow a common set of principles and patterns and utilize a standard set of technology frameworks and libraries.Provides leadership across the engineering community to ensure solutions are built in alignment with platform principles and standards.Mentors and builds world-class high-performing engineering teams.Applies architecture best practices that helps increase execution velocity.Contributes to key GenAI initiatives for developer productivity and product innovation.Develops architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric and global.Influences technology selection for the enterprise.Defines deployment topology by working with peers across the technology organization.Optimizes use of Visa’s Platforms & Solutions.Demonstrates thought leadership through presentations and teaching across Visa.Contributes to other key Visa initiatives.This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.QualificationsBasic Qualifications:12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience.Preferred Qualifications:15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experienceExperience in Java language, Spring, Hibernate, Angular, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, and HTML5/ CSS3Expert in web service standards and related patterns (REST, gRPC)Advanced knowledge of AI / Generative AI / Data Science.Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development of Shared Services and framework including Microservices, Container Technologies, Caching, API gateway and Security.Possesses a deep understanding of benefits/drawbacks of different integration patterns.Continuous delivery and DevOps experience - infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing and security implementation and practices.A background in the payment domain is a plus.Additional InformationVisa 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.