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 lives of 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 will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.”

Visa is looking for Staff Software Engineers, who will help build Open VisaNet, Visa's Next generation payment processing platform developed on Open Systems, that would fuel growth in electronic payments globally and drive financial inclusion in many parts of the world. 

Open VisaNet, is the Next Generation VisaNet, will push the envelope of building highly scalable, secure, cost effective and distributed application on commodity hardware using best-in-class technology components. Open VisaNet is one of Visa's Key initiative that will help Visa support in-country processing solutions and provide Visa an opportunity to move away from Proprietary Mainframe type systems. It is built as a modern distributed architecture based on micro services with goals of five 9’s availability, fault tolerance, horizontal scalability and real time latency for largest scale transaction processing. Open VisaNet leverages state of the art Open Software technologies to achieve these goals on commodity hardware, such as Go, Scala, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Docker, Kubernetes, Aerospike, Elasticsearch etc. and involves collaboration with exceptional group of software engineers, systems performance engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts, infrastructure and solution architects.

Responsibilities include

• Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using functional programming paradigm
• Participate in business requirements review and build functional & technical design documentation
• Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems
• Participate in design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems.
• Work across the team to ensure the team is predictable, productive, and delivering high quality.
• Ability to juggle multiple projects and change direction mid-course based on business drivers.
• Work with minimal guidance to implement new functionality, automated tests, and refactor code.
• Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques
• Ensure proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring
• Collaborate with team to build performance test suite. Run simulations with high throughput workload, analyze performance simulation results to fine tune component design and implementation
• Contribute to efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools
• Participate in code reviews with team members and third party vendors. 
• Respond to and solve defects in a timely manner consistent with the business needs.
• Ensuring proper documentation and internal publishing of design tradeoffs, code best practices and lessons learned 
• Support in triaging and troubleshooting of highly distributed services in production environment

• Extraordinary software engineering talent
• BS or MS in computer science, computer engineering or relevant field.
• Minimum 8 to 10 years of experience in design and development of large scale products and services
• Knowledge of functional programming languages like GoLang, Scala, Haskell, Clojure, or the ability to learn them quickly
• Working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release
• Experience with operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols
• Effective verbal and written communication skill
• Experience with distributed database, distributed computing and high frequency transactions is a big plus
• Previous experience with financial services or payments processing domain is preferred. 

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.