Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity.  Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere.
This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team.  As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the livesof people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

Visa's Digital and Mobile Product Development (DMPD) team is building a new generation of products to facilitate commerce in everyone's digital and mobile lives. At DMPD, we are focused on creating smarter payment solutions that provide fast, easier ways to pay with phone, web and other digital devices wherever you are – remote or proximity payment.  

Engineering and Operations team in Visa Digital and Mobile Products group is responsible for providing operational excellence across various technology teams by developing tools and capabilities needed for seamless execution. The team is focused on early integration capabilities, Automation and Mobile capabilities needed to facilitate the software development process, push new features from development to production in a predictable, low risk and agile manner. The Sr. Staff Software Engineer is an individual contributor role, and you will lead development of several innovative tools and capabilities.
This is a senior role and will be instrumental in making an impact on Digital Products for Visa and the payments industry as a whole. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. Your
strong technical leadership, problem solving abilities, coding, testing and debugging skills is just a start.  An ideal candidate will also have a strong operations background, release engineering, automation and tools
development experience.  You must also be committed to continuous improvement of the agile process, demonstrating your ability to share knowledge, mentor and motivate others.  You must be willing to go beyond the routine and prepared to do a little bit of everything.

Responsibilities

In this role you will: 

•Lead DMPD Engg and Operations Technology charter
•Work independently, driving projects end to end and provide guidance to junior engineers
•Write software code that complies with design specifications and meets security and Java/J2EE best practices that will meet development and support requirements
•Evaluate cutting edge technologies, drive towards adoption, create proof-of-concept and frameworks.
•Participate in all stages of development from design through implementation
•Understand current posture of product ecosystem and specifics for DMPD's solutions
•Serve as subject matter expert for the major components and application domains
•Work on building automated build pipeline, continuous integration and continuous deployment and test automation frameworks with tools such as Git/Stash and Jenkins
•Design and develop the utilities and automation tools using java, j2ee, spring, rest, python, groovy, maven, sql, git.
•Manage configurations, builds, branching and deployment issues related to delivered code •Ensure, through automation, that code quality tools are run on all software prior to release.
•Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, application design, and implementing large components for enterprise projects
•Collaborate with team members in design reviews, development and code reviews
•Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to standards, best practices and development methodologies
•Implement and enforce best practices for code promotion across the various environments.
•Strong SDLC background in Agile/Iterative practices
•Create documentation and procedures for development, deployment and maintenance
•Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfer and mentorship to engineering peers as required and lead technical staff responsibilities.
•Triage and provide technical solutions to environment and build/deploy related issues
•Review implementation plans and participate and even be able to manage product installations.
•Validate successful introduction of newly deployed products and feature sets to the market.

•Master's degree or Bachelor's degree with equivalent experience, in software engineering, computer science, or computer & information system and 10 or 8 years respectively of industry experience

•Strong problem solving and analytical skills

•Ability to quickly digest any issue/problem encountered and recommend an appropriate solution

•Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to author and present materials ranging from detailed technical specifications to high-level presentations

•Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, application design, and implementing large components for enterprise projects

•Strong experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT/Stash, Liquibase, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, JUnit, and PowerMock.

•Proven experience in developing and/or architecting complex web/mobile applications with backend services expertise such as API Gateway, Identity and Access Management Services

•Strong scripting skills in Python, UNIX shell scripting and Perl.

•Solid background in systems engineering and operations would be an advantage

•Possesses a solid understanding of modern web application architecture, Apache, Tomcat, TCP/IP, HTTP and n-tier architecture.

•Hands on experience with administering Linux systems

•Knowledge of monitoring, logging and management tools

•Willingness to learn and build new tools from scratch

•Excellent process orientation and exhibited planning, organizational and problem solving skills

•Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and leadership skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills.

•Strong work ethic to focus on our goals.

•Proven experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the requirements and independently, architect, design and build the solution.

•Have the passion to work with people and help mentor your juniors to reach new heights.

•Knowledge in payment services and systems is a plus

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.