Lead SW Engineer (14-18 years, Java Backend, Microservices, Kafka)

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

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:

• Works with product owners to gather and refine requirements for one product, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions across departments.

• Develops and designs advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable, considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem.

• Provides domain expertise on the development of user documentation of solutions and implements standard processes in user documentation.

• Plays a significant role in the development and delivery of new features from end-to-end.

• As a Lead Engineering, you will provide technical leadership for one or more product offerings within Value Added Services team. This role extends beyond product delivery, development, and you will be required to participate in application architecture, feature design, end to end network topology, application scalability needs and be the owner for bringing up an application from whiteboard to life.

• People: 1. Grows team members and builds a high-performing team. 2. Spends time recruiting and organizing activities that increase retention. 3. Represents the team in the wider engineering and tech organizations. 

• Technical: 1. Drives the team to decide how to implement our product. 2. Spends time driving technical discussions and decisions and writing code. 3. Actively guide architecture, tool choices and internal technical quality and best practices. 4. Actively raises and drives work to manage tech debt, scalability, performance and maintainability of our software. 5. Ensures support and operations for services in production with aid of their team.  6. Drives technical excellence. 

• Process: 1. Continually tunes the team software process to deliver a sustainable and seamless flow of value. 2. Continuously look for opportunities and implement solutions to improve team's productivity. 3. Partnering with product managers in developing short term strategy and roadmap that align with business goals for the initiatives that you would be directly involved in. 4. Partnering with remote teams to ensure alignment across product development.

 

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.

• A self-starter who takes accountability for getting things done.

• Passionate about growing others while growing yourself. An interest for continuous improvement and helping engineers to feel part of something bigger.

• Top-notch stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence colleagues in small, cross-functional scrum teams.

• Great written and verbal communication skills.

 

**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.

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
* 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
* 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
* Experience designing solution architectures on enterprise applications in Payment's or Banking domain.
* Mandatory experience with n-tier web application development and experience in Java/J2EE or other frameworks.
* Solid experience in frameworks like Spring or Spring Boot, Sprint MVC.
* Proficient in Web Services/API Development using SOAP or REST, JSON and XML.
* Proficient in Kafka - Ability to install, maintain and troubleshoot Kafka. Have experience with messaging and stream processing on Kafka. Have ability to set up and configure Kafka brokers.
* Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc.).
* Experience with RDBMS systems like SQL Server, Oracle or DB2 or No-SQL DBs like Mongo DB.
* Solid foundation in cloud computing fundamentals, and understanding the different service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and deployment models (public, private, hybrid).
* Exposure working on UI/Web development using Angular/React, JavaScript, JQuery, and HTML/CSS technologies is required.
* Proficient in GIT/Stash, Maven, Jenkins etc.
* Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and timeliness.
* Ability to deliver on multiple projects and manage priorities based on changing directions.
* Leading a module/team or mentoring experience will be a plus.
* Excellent presentation, collaboration and communication skills required.
* Experience being part of an Agile/Scrum team and following processes.

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.

Client-provided location(s): Bangalore, India

Job ID: 7f99b84f-bc34-45d3-afbb-f3185b1ba210

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-08-25T15:02:22