Lead SW Engineer (14+ yrs, Java, Microservices, Distributed Architecture)

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

The Digital Marketing Experience Team at Visa is looking to hire an experienced and self-motivated technologist with a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. Our applications are engineered for security, reliability and scalability, running full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our engineers are passionate about innovation, coding standards & best practices.

You will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers, use your deep understanding of the systems, technology and working with engineering teams to develop solution strategies to help improve overall product and customer experience. You will demonstrate executive level qualities, lead the conversation while being extensively involved hands on to lead cross-functional teams of experts to help design, plan, implement, strategize. The ideal candidate will be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on company s priorities, and should be capable to work across the layers and technologies stack. The position requires hands on experience building complex applications and strong knowledge of web technology stack -RESTful APIs, Java / Spring boot, NoSQL data stores etc.

Essential Functions

• Work on emerging technologies, building distributed applications

• Partner with Product on implementation strategy.

• Drive development effort End-to-End for on-time delivery of high quality solutions that conform to requirements, conform to the architectural vision, and comply with all applicable standards.

• Collaborate with senior technical staff and PM to identify, document, plan contingency, track and manage risks and issues until all are resolved

• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.

• Ensure operational excellence - capabilities (usability, availability, resilience, security, etc.) are assessed, planned and built into the platform.

• Identify and implement opportunities in the platform that will drive improvements in performance, scalability, reliability and re-usability.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 14+ or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 10+ years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• 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.
• Proficiency in Java 8+ (Core Java, memory management, concurrency, functional programming) and experience with REST APIs, JSON and exposure to container based technologies..
• Experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Triton, Chef, Sonar, Clover, JUnit, Mockito.
• Experience in Security: Web, Mobile and backend (B2C and B2B security – authentication, authorization and encryption)
• Experience with web services standards and related technologies (HTTP(s), REST, JSON, WS*).
• Experience working with a variety of Application Servers and Databases such as NGNX , Docker , Kubernetes and Oracle.
• Experience in Micro Services, Service Mesh, Containers, UI frameworks like Angular , Vue and DevOps is a big plus
• Experience with shift left practices and performance testing applications.
• Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques.
• Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals.
• Ability to deliver results and work cross-functionally engage/influence audiences and identify expansion engagements.
• Experience in the Content management System and AEM platform 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.