Lead SW Engineer

Company Description

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.

Job Description

We're looking for the next generation of Techies - dreamers, disruptors, creatives and trailblazers - who are fascinated by new technology and want to be empowered to change the way business is done. We are looking for candidates who are highly engaged, not a box checker, and be able to challenge the status quo.

As a Lead Software Engineer you will be part of our VERA - DEP team to play Senior Dev Lead role to design, enhance and build DEP Client tools and developers eco system as more reliable, productive and faster. You will work with highly talented colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. You will be taking driver seat and be part of multiple projects ranging from applications to improve client operations efficiency, faster client onboarding, building full stack development of tools and utilities, productivity tool, building strong governance model for DEP development eco system. You will work with external System Integrators to help build some of the popular Systems. You must be a self-starter, detail-oriented, have the ability to work in a fast-paced and highly dynamic environment, and be able to prioritize multiple demands. You will be responsible for creating and implementing best practices, finding areas of improvements, and coordinating multiple work streams.

Our engineers do more than just write code:

• You'll help our customers achieve their real goals by understanding their requirements and how they respond to their business needs
• You'll use technologies that include Java, REST, NoSQL, Docker and more
• Champion Agile to inspire change and continuous improvement throughout the delivery process
• You are enthusiastic in leveraging AI for improving developer productivity by multifold and also for building new solutions to our clients.
• You will analyze business requirements/opportunities and architect a solution that is robust and scalable along with providing technical documentation of solutions
• You have the work and academic experience that will demonstrate proficiency and ease with programming languages, mobile technologies, quality assurance, scripting languages and operating systems
• You'll leverage on new technologies to build the next generation of client onboarding, integrations and operations.
• You'll lead efforts to architect, design and implement various components of our global transaction processing systems
• Your DNA would include following and creating software best practices and enforce them through tools and processes.
• You'll lead meeting and discussions with cross-functional and non-technical teams
• You have excellent interpersonal skills and above all, you are team players
• You will have an energetic team to groom them as top-notch tech engineers

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

14+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Have a Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field and 15+ years of Software Development Experience or a Masters with 12+ years of Software Development Experience
• Have expertise of Core Java, JEE technologies, Web technologies, JavaScript and container based technologies.
• Understanding of middleware/integration technologies (EPIC, Cegid, Oracle XStore, ETLs, APIs, Web Services, REST, SOAP)
• Have the expertise on the technologies, Hazelcast, KAFKA, Docker/K8S
• Be an expert in proposing solutions for building world class Platforms which includes Development, monitoring, troubleshooting, triaging
• Have Digital/Mobile related SME knowledge in one or more of the following industries – Banking, Fintech, Retail, Healthcare, Insurance
• Have experience architecting solutions with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in mind and also by leveraging AI to the maximum.
• Have the ability to work with various Solutions architects/Architects to build tailored solutions for various system integrations.
• Are a mentor rest of the team members to groom them as best in class developers
• Are an advocate to rest of the teams to best engineering practices to delivery with highest quality possible, with top velocity.
• We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand customer requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions
• While you'll have the skill to see and understand the big picture, you're able to stay focused on the task at hand to achieve immediate goals
• Be great at systematic and accurate research wanting to uncover the smallest detail
• Have amazing work ethics that will help us all work extremely well together
• Have proven experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the requirement and architect, design and build the solution.
• Have the passion to understanding people and to always striving to improve our products and services

Additional Information

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.