Sr SW Engineer; Software Engineering

About Us

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, youll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.

The Opportunity

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.

The Work Itself

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability
• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads
• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities
  
  

Essential Functions

• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
• Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance.
• Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements.
• Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
• Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.
  
  

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

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

4+ years of professional software engineering experience

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (Masters degree preferred)

Java & Backend Development

Strong experience with JAVA, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Hibernate/JPA

Solid understanding of object-oriented design principles and design patterns

Experience with RESTful API development and microservices architecture

Proficiency in code development using IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, or similar Java IDEs

Experience with unit testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, TestNG)

Understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and Java memory management

Familiarity with reactive programming (Spring WebFlux, RxJava) is a plus

Development Tools & Practices

Proficient with GIT/Stash for version control

Experience with Maven or Gradle for dependency management and builds

Hands-on experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar CI/CD tools

Understanding of code review best practices and collaborative development

Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies

API Development & Integration

Experience developing REST APIs with proper error handling and documentation

Knowledge of JSON, XML data formats

Understanding of OAuth 2.0, JWT, and API security best practices

Familiarity with API documentation tools (Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman)

Experience with API versioning and backward compatibility

Data & Databases

Solid experience with SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or DB2)

Understanding of database design, normalization, and query optimization

Experience writing complex SQL queries and stored procedures

Distributed Systems Fundamentals

Understanding of microservices architecture patterns

Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS)

Knowledge of caching strategies (Redis, Memcached)

Understanding of distributed logging and monitoring

Familiarity with service communication patterns (sync/async, request-response, pub-sub)

Basic understanding of eventual consistency and distributed transactions

Infrastructure & DevOps

Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems

Familiarity with Docker containerization

Basic understanding of Kubernetes or container orchestration

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is a plus

Knowledge of logging and monitoring tools (ELK Stack, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana)

AI-Assisted Development

Experience using AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, or similar)

Ability to leverage AI tools to improve coding efficiency and code quality

Understanding of prompt engineering for effective AI collaboration

Interest in exploring AI/ML integration in software applications

Familiarity with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI) is a plus

Professional Capabilities

Ability to write clean, maintainable code following coding standards and best practices

Strong problem-solving skills and analytical thinking

Effective communication skills (both written and verbal)

Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment

Self-motivated with a drive to continuously learn and improve

Experience with code documentation and technical writing

The Skills You Bring

Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale

Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions

Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)

Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability

Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa

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.

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