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.

About Global Commercial Payments Platform

We are working on multiple technology stacks and want to add a highly motivated Engineer to our Commercial Payments organization in Foster City, CA. Visa's Commercial Payments organization is responsible for managing Visa's B2B Payment Global adoption on Cross-Border funds movement, innovation agenda and the management of strategic partnerships with critical financial institutions. This group is responsible for defining and building the Non-Card based payment innovation and product for Visa Inc. Globally. This includes:

• Distributed-Ledger based Cross border payment platform
• Near time Settlement 
• Enterprise ID stamping to create a digital identity for corporate entities
• Hyperledger chain-code development
• End-to-End Payment eco-system 
• Analytics and Data visualization

You can learn more about our work here:

Visa B2B Connect Launches in 32 Countries

Visa B2B Connect Launches Globally

Essential Functions:

• Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using functional programming paradigm
• Contribute to efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools
• Develop automation tools and framework for validating highly available, fault tolerant, scalable, low latency, distributed payments transaction processing systems
• Ensure proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring
• Collaborate with the multiple teams across Development, Operations & Infrastructure, and Product to analyze and debug issues related to build, deployment, and infrastructure. Support cross-functional teams in integrated test efforts.
• 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 the production environment.
• Responsible for the stability and high availability of lower environments.
• Championing & driving application, infrastructure & enterprise security efforts, certificate management etc.

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 or more years of work experience or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Knowledge of functional programming languages like GoLang, Scala, Erlang, Haskell, Clojure, or the ability to learn them quickly
• Experience with distributed database, distributed computing and high frequency transactions is a big plus
• Working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release
• Experience with configuration automation tools (Puppet/Ansible/Chef/Salt)
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience in Splunk, Sysdig, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana etc. is a big plus.
• Experience with operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Previous experience with financial services or payments processing domain is a big plus

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% 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.

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.

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