Staff Software Engineer Backend - (Java) Consultant

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be part of our Enterprise Payments team to help design, enhance and build our transactional platform in an agile development environment. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. You will play part of multiple teams tasked with multiple projects ranging from building full stack development of real-time transactional services, REST services API, Container based services to highly functional, secure, scalable and resilient real time and batching systems. You will work on unit testing, code reviews and regular check-ins to continuous integration that will become part of your DNA. You will see the code written and moved to production within just a few days, to then be used by a huge customer base including Facebook, Nike, FedEx, Apple, State Farm, to name a few. 

If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit for both of us. 

Essential Functions: 

• You’ll help our customers achieve their real goals by understanding their requirements and how they respond to their business needs. 

• You’ll use technologies that include Java, REST, NoSQL, Docker and more. 

• You will analyze business requirements and architect a solution that is robust and scalable along with providing technical documentation of solution. 

• You’ll leverage new technologies to build the next generation of Transactional systems. 

• You’ll develop and deliver new features every few days and be responsible for them end-end 

• You have the work and academic experience that will demonstrate proficiency and ease with programming languages, code quality initiatives, scripting languages and operating systems 

• You have experience in commercial software development on Unix/Linux environment. 

• You have experience in consumer facing application development. 

• You have amazing work ethic that will help us all work extremely well together 

• You have the passion to understanding people and to always striving to improve our products and services! 

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both home and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Monday (Sunday in some countries where Sunday is the start of the week) and Wednesdays. Wednesdays are designated as in-office collaboration days. The third day in the office will be decided based on team needs and determined in partnership with senior leadership. 

Basic Qualifications: 

• 4 years of 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 degree 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 7-10 years of work experience and a Bachelor’s Degree or 6 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 years of experience with a PhD 

• You have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 10+ years of Software Development Experience or a Masters with 7+ years of Software Development Experience 

• You have expertise of Core Java, JEE technologies, REST and container-based technologies. 

• Experience with JavaScript and front end technologies/frameworks like JQuery, ReactJS, Angular 

• You have experience in application development frameworks like Vert.x, Spring etc and have knowledge of Asynchronous programming. 

• Understand the Security requirements and standards, and contemporary trends in Security risks as well as technologies. 

• Experience in security domain with authentication, authorization and building secure gateway. 

• You have experience architecting solutions with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in mind 

• We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand customer requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions 

• While you’ll have the skill to see and understand the big picture, you’re able to stay focused on the task at hand to achieve immediate goals 

• You’re great at systematic and accurate research wanting to uncover the smallest detail You have amazing work ethics that will help us all work extremely well together 

• Excellent team player, with strong collaboration skills and ability to influence cross-functional team for results  

• Focus on building an efficient and collaborative team environment 

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

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.