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 Senior 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. Building Open VisaNet will involve collaboration with exceptional group of software engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts and infrastructure architects. 
 

Responsibilities may include: 

• Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using functional programming paradigm
• Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems
• 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
• 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

Basic Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related degree from recognized university.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Linux coding or systems programming.
• 3+ years of experience in application development experience in major languages, e.g: Golang/Python/C/C++.
• 2+ years of experience with automation.
• Strong background with scripting (shell, python, go, bash, ...)
• Strong background with git and complex development workflows.
• Strong background with SDLCs including version control, build process, testing, and code releases.
• Experience with Jenkins platform.
• Experience with Docker containers.
• Experience with operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols.
• Experience working in Agile development cycles.
• Experience on building a CD system on AWS or Google Cloud is a plus.
• Experience on being an application developer (being the consumer of a CD system) is a plus.
• Experience with Kubernetes is a plus.
• Experience with Groovy language is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

Work Hours This position requires the incumbent to be available during core business hours.

Travel Requirements This position requires the incumbent to travel for work 0% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers, and reach with hands and arms.

EEO Statement 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.