Staff Software Engineer, Backend (m/f/d)

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Company Description

As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

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

You will be working on a payment terminal management capability for one of Cybersource platforms. You will be a part of international, distributed team working in Scrum methodology.   

As all development teams in the organization are mission teams, you will be responsible for delivering functionalities end to end – implement, write tests, deploy and perform QA. You will focus on the services that your team owns but will also make changes to other services.

The ability to work independently is essential for this position but you will also be a team contributor – you will take active part in refinement and technical sessions, propose improvements to both code and processes. You will take part in pair coding and code reviews to support your colleagues on finding optimal, clean solutions for the tasks given.  

Essential Functions: 

  • Implement backend services – both new ones as well as extend/support existing ones
  • Design and define contracts between frontend and backend services  
  • Help adopting clean code and testing principles to the code you and your colleagues write

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

  • 5 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 6+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 4 +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 
  • Deep understanding of RESTful webservices and microservice architecture  
  • Proven experience developing Java-based microservices using Java 11, Spring Boot (MVC, Data, Security)  
  • Understanding of the application development lifecycle, CI/CD  
  • Experience in writing maintainable code using TDD/BDD paradigms  
  • Good understanding of clean code principles – SOLID, KISS, DRY, Clean Architecture 
  • Understanding of data intensive performant applications on scale   
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration – Docker, Kubernetes  
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services – SNS, SQS, DynamoDB 
  • Proficiency in SQL – MySQL, query optimization, ORM 
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills  
  • Nice to have Domain Driven Design 
  • Nice to have experience working with Kotlin and other JVM languages  

Additional Information

Work Hours:

  • 40 hours per week

Diversity & Inclusion

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.

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