Staff Software Engineer (8+ yrs, Java, Springboot)

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.

Payments has become a very active/hot area in the last couple of years, creating a strong demand for innovation. This will be a very exciting area in the next 5 to 10 years. Not only is VISA a leader in the payment industry and has been for a long time, but it is also quickly transitioning into a technology company that is fostering an environment for applying the latest technology to solve exciting problems in this area.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be part of our Acceptance Solutions org to help design, enhance and build our transactional platform in an agile development environment. You will play part of multiple teams tasked with multiple projects ranging from building full stack development of real-time transactional services, REST services API, Container based micro-services to highly functional, secure, scalable and resilient real time payment systems. You will work on development, unit testing, code reviews and regular check-ins to continuous integration that will become part of your DNA.

If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit for both of us.

Essential Functions:

• You’ll use technologies that include Java, REST, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes and more.
• You’ll help our customers achieve their real goals by understanding their requirements and how they respond to their business needs.
• You will analyze business requirements and architect a solution that is robust and scalable along with providing technical documentation of solution.
• You’ll leverage new technologies to build the next generation of Transactional systems.
• You’ll develop and deliver new features every few days and be responsible for them end-end
• You are familiar with Generative AI (GENAI) tools and frameworks.
• You have the work and academic experience that will demonstrate proficiency and ease with programming languages, code quality initiatives, scripting languages and operating systems
• You have experience in commercial software development on Unix/Linux environment.
• You have experience with DevOps practices to ensure seamless development cycles and efficient production releases.
• You have experience in consumer facing application development.
• You have amazing work ethic that will help us all work extremely well together
• You have the passion to understanding people and to always striving to improve our products and services.
• You possess comprehensive hands-on experience in testing activities, including the automation of functional test suites.

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.

Basic Qualifications:
8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 6 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:
8 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD

Strong experience in building large scale enterprise level backend applications using Java, Spring, REST API, RDBMS, NoSQL, Vertx, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Jenkins.

Good analytics & problem-solving skills with a solid foundation in algorithms, data structures and common design patterns.

Proficiency in using Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration

Strong scripting skills in languages such as Bash, Python, or similar.

Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI or similar to automate the development to deployment pipeline.

Hands-on experience in integrating and utilizing Generative AI (GENAI) tools and frameworks within software development projects.

Experience with TDD using JUNIT/functional automation testing and tools.

Proven experience delivering complex software projects and solutions effectively through Agile methodologies on a regular release cadence.

Strong leadership skills, with a proven ability to think big and challenge the status quo.

Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to work well in a team and independently.

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.