Company Description

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, you'll 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

Cross-border remittances and new business models (e.g. gig economy) require the ability to deploy rapid, frequent payouts. We are building a Technology Platform that will enable fast and ubiquitous push payments across a range of domestic and cross border use cases aiming to capture significant revenue opportunity across P2P, B2SB, and B2C flows and value-added services. Built on the latest standards/tech stack and providing open APIs, this platform will help drive innovation in the entire ecosystem.

We value creative and driven individuals who love to own their products, and design and implement solutions that create a seamless experience for consumers and clients.  Our developers work across the stack, and are experts in service oriented architectures and technologies such as Java 17, J2EE, Springboot, Hibernate, MySQL, DB2, MongoDB, React JS, Cassandra, Hazelcast, Kafka, Rabbit Mq, Kubernetes and Docker, microservices etc.

As we embark on the journey to enhance the Visa Direct Payout Services technology platforms, we are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer who can participate in the detailed design and development activities for this product build.

The role involves extensive hands-on activities.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Understand the Payments industry and where Visa Direct Payout Services fits in the payment’s ecosystem
• Understand the business initiatives and their importance to the growth of Visa Direct Payout Services.
• Develop a good understanding of the Visa Direct Payout Services technology platforms and the 3 rails of money movement – cards, accounts and wallets.
• Collaborate with product owners and technical staff globally to define requirements for new features and enhancements to the platform.
• Actively participate in defining architecture and creating solution documents consistently, be hands-on with low level design, code review, coding and unit testing activities.
• Evaluate technical options and provide recommendation on scope and scale of effort required to develop an end-to-end solution.
• Take ownership and lead the engineering responsibility for multiple components of the platform.
• Actively participate in defining architecture and creating solution documents consistently, be hands-on with low level design, code review, coding and unit testing activities.
• Coordinate engineering activities across the delivery of the project and work with engineers to ensure they are delivering efficiently and to high quality standards. Co-ordinate and  influence business and technology partners spread across different regions to mitigate these risks.
• Ability to identify and manage risks at all stages of the project.
• Build a culture of engineering excellence within the team, drive adoption of practices like GenAI, continuous integration, security, code reviews, code coverage, code quality and shift left practices.
• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards, processes and systems.
• Technically manage and mentor a team of talented engineers.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field with a minimum of 14+ years of Software Development Experience or a Masters in Computer Science or related field with a minimum of 12+ years of Software Development Experience.
Led and delivered complex projects where complexity is a function of a combination of these factors – domain knowledge, distributed architecture, technical stack, influencing and collaborating with multiple technology partners and business partners
Experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the requirements and independently, architect, design and build large scale resilient enterprise applications.
Experience of technically leading an engineering team of 8-12 people is mandatory.
Proficiency in using GenAI for efficiency
Proficiency in Java 17+ (Core Java, memory management, concurrency, functional programming) and experience with REST APIs, JSON and exposure to container based technologies like Docker & Kubernetes, and cloud providers like AWS.
Experience with Agile development incorprating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Sonar, JUnit, Mockito.
Experience with shift left practices and operformance testing applications.
Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques.
Passion to work with people and help mentor your team.
Experience in the Payment domain is a plus.

Additional Information

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.