Lead Sw 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 As a Technology Leader in the Risk and Identity Solutions division at Visa you will be part of our Risk Solutions team to help design enhance and build our transactional Fraud detection engine in an agile development environment You will work with colleagues who will support and challenge you daily You will take leadership roles working on multiple projects building full stack development of real-time transactional services RESTful APIs and Container based distributed services that are highly available secure scalable and resilient You will spearhead development of next generation software based on machine learning and deep learning We believe in self-managing Agile teams who build products end to end focusing on unit testing code reviews and continuous integration for excellent code quality You will see the code written and moved to production within just a few days to then be used by a huge customer base You will be driving innovation that makes our products stand apart from our competitors and delight the customer with accelerated time-to-market delivery You are a trusted technology advisor and thought leader working with architects DEV leads test engineering leads TPMs product managers security architects and other partners across the organization in ensuring that what we build is secure scalable performant and reliable Every technology and software that you have touched in the past you have become an SME at with a deep level of understanding how it worked and are able to incorporate this in the most optimize form Key Responsibilities Design infrastructure that is reliable performant and fault tolerant Build expertise in developing highly available reliable and scalable solutions Ensure security reliability performance and cost effectiveness of the Risk platform Collaborate with the product management other VISA IT groups and vendors to develop solutions for complex global business requirements Establish architectural and technical standards and processes ensure adherence to them through governance Evaluate and identify appropriate technology solutions to meet business and technology challenges guide product development teams through their implementation Keep abreast of evolving technologies and anticipate technological evolutions that could be leveraged to enhance current architectures Design solutions involving moving existing applications and services to the cloud public and hybrid Champion technology innovation Create Projects Features and Stories for Technology driven projects and initiatives Evaluate and develop PoCs for new technologies Mentor and groom developers Guide teams in building reusable libraries and frameworks Prepare technical material and give technical presentations to stakeholders Lead and build scalable and distributed services that will help power the AI infrastructure for deep learning platforms Collaborate with project team members Product Managers Architects Analysts Software Engineers Project Managers etc to ensure development and implementation of new data driven business solutions Be a technical leader on various projects across the platform and be a major contributor of the entire platform s architecture Drive development effort End-to-End for on-time delivery of high-quality solutions that conform to requirements conform to the architectural vision and comply with all applicable coding and security standards Troubleshoot Production Issues as needed by working closely with Product and 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 is not offering relocation assistance for this role QualificationsBasic Qualifications14 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor s Degree or with an Advanced Degree Experience in architecture and design of distributed highly scalable highly available systems 10 years of technical lead in all phases of software development life cycle Experience in Java software development web applications and services Spring technology standards and frameworks You are a Java expert experienced with REST APIs and container-based technologies Strong on elegant designing can write very solid prototypes or core components quickly Experience in UI technologies JQuery JavaScript standards including ES6 HTML5 CSS3 and CSS4 Redux Riot js and React js D3 is a plus Experience in migrating applications to the cloud AWS or GCP or MS Azure is a plus Good experience in Kafka Cassandra Spark Flink distributed cache Hands on experience on containers and orchestration platform such as docker Kubernetes Knowledge on cloud infrastructure and cost-effective platform such as AWS AZURE Experience in microservices architecture and database shading of a large-scale project Experience developing large scale enterprise class distributed system or subsystems that require high availability low latency strong data consistency computing Experience implementing solutions for low-latency distributed services using open standard technologies Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with effective communication both written and verbal skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear concise way a team player with a strong work ethic You have proven experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the requirements and independently architect design and build the solution You have the passion to work with people and help mentor your juniors to reach new heights Passion for Big Data and analytics in general leveraging technologies like Hadoop Spark Solr MapReduce You have work and academic experience that will demonstrate proficiency and ease with programming languages code quality initiatives scripting languages and operating systems 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