Staff SW Engineer

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.

Visa's Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators 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 everyday people.   While working with us you'll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity: 

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale.  As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.   

Job Description and Responsibilities

• Design develop and maintain end to end features across backend Java Spring Boot and frontend Angular React with TypeScript
• Lead system design service boundaries APIs data modeling scalability reliability security
• Build and optimize REST GraphQL APIs implement caching and performance improvements
• Apply strong DSA to write efficient maintainable code and solve complex problems
• Own the software lifecycle coding testing code reviews deployment monitoring and iteration
• Improve CI CD pipelines Jenkins containerization and release processes in partnership with DevOps
• Collaborate with product design QA break work into deliverables and provide estimates
• Document architecture and best practices mentor peers and contribute to engineering standards
• Work in Agile Scrum teams and follow the guidelines

Required Qualifications

• 5 to 9 years building production web applications as a full stack engineer
• Strong Java fundamentals and production experience with Spring Boot or similar
• Proficiency with Angular and or React TypeScript state management routing and testing
• Demonstrated end to end system design experience microservices vs modular monolith messaging data stores observability
• Strong data structures and algorithms performance and complexity trade offs
• SQL expertise PostgreSQL MySQL familiarity with NoSQL is a plus
• CI CD with Jenkins pipelines Git code quality tools
• Docker exposure to Kubernetes or cloud container services preferred
• Cloud experience is a plus
• Security best practices OWASP authn authz secrets management and testing discipline

We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn't work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

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

Basic Qualifications

5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

5 to 9 years building production web applications as a full stack engineer

Strong Java fundamentals and production experience with Spring Boot or similar

Proficiency with Angular and or React TypeScript state management routing and testing

Demonstrated end to end system design experience microservices vs modular monolith messaging data stores observability

Strong data structures and algorithms performance and complexity trade offs

SQL expertise PostgreSQL MySQL familiarity with NoSQL is a plus

CI CD with Jenkins pipelines Git code quality tools

Docker exposure to Kubernetes or cloud container services preferred

Cloud experience is a plus

Security best practices OWASP authn authz secrets management and testing discipline

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.