Staff Software Engineer - Open VisaNet
- Full-time
- Job Family Group: Technology and Operations
Company Description
At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.
You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.
Job Description
Position Summary
This position is ideal for an experienced software engineer who is passionate about solving challenging business problems and build robust, resilient and performant frameworks which cut across business services. The candidate will be extensively involved in hands-on activities including POCs, design, documentation, development and test of new functionality. You will be an integral part of the Open VisaNet development team. Open VisaNet; The Next Generation payment processing platform for Visa, 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 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 Golang, Scala, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic Search etc.
Responsibilities
- Design, code and integrate application business layer with external application components
- Deliver zero defect code and be responsible for insuring the team's deliverables to meet or exceed the prescribed defect SLA
- Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner
- Break down architected solution into smaller and achievable tasks
- Ensure proper metrics and instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring
- Performance Tuning and Increase Operational efficiency on a continuous basis
- Ensuring proper documentation and internal publishing of design tradeoffs, code best practices and lessons learned
- Design, develop and own mission-critical systems for highly scalable infrastructure for low-latency and high-throughput core payment processing system that has five 9’s availability.
- Understand E2E implementation and architecture of products/apps in production to optimize and ensure efficiency
- Working closely with development, engineering and operation teams; jointly develop key deliverables ensuring production scalability and stability
- Lead the development of new products iteratively by building quick Proof of Concepts and converting ideas into real products
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 7-10 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or
- 6 years of experience with an Advanced Degree
- Software development experience in delivering high quality enterprise class applications that support high-throughput/availability/resiliency/low-latency at scale
- Experience with programming languages like GoLang, Java, Python/Ruby etc
- Strong on elegant coding; can write very solid prototypes or core components quickly
- Experience with container technologies like docker, Kubernetes and NoSql databases
- Understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and scalable micro service-oriented architecture
- Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques.
- Leveraging DevOps techniques and practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous
- Deployment, Test Automation
- Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, including ability to effectively communicate architectural issues and concepts to multiple organization levels
- Self-driven, Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Preferred Qualification
- Master's degree in computer science or a related technical discipline
- Domain experience in Payment technologies
- Knowledgeable about network architecture, VIPS, and Firewalls