Staff Software Engineer - GNE

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

O&I IaaS Network Software Engineering Development team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead a world-class team of software and systems engineers to deliver production ready solutions by building the next generation of systems, automation and tools to support overall productivity and developer efficiencies. You will provide strategy, vision and technical leadership to the product development teams across Visa to ensure engineering teams are building products that use a foundational approach that prioritizes high availability and security.

You will be responsible for mentoring top engineering talent, keeping the team highly engaged and motivated while delivering exceptional results. Your ability to work across functions and teams will allow you to drive results and foster the right culture and environment to achieve Engineering Excellence and Innovation. You will be responsible for working with product development, quality engineering, security engineering, enterprise operations and other internal and external technology partners to deliver products for business integration & enablement.

Essential Functions:

• Contribute to the apps and services for network Infrastructure development, availability Reliability.

• Participate in system technical design discussions with global teams to ensure business and technical requirements are understood and properly documented and implemented.

• Keep executive management informed of progress and any obstacles of development, Releases, and risks to internal visa teams.

• Apply creative thinking/approaches to determine the best solutions that further support Automation efficiency.

• Partner with product development and application architecture teams to drive the infrastructure agility and automation reliability..

• Have a clear, aligned goals and direction toward project completion.

• Provide candid feedback and coaching to maximize team competency.

• Achieve Operational/Engineering Excellence: availability, stability, efficiency, with an availability first mindset directed towards all product development efforts.

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:
• 5+ years of relevant 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, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Extensive technical experience in full stack using HTTP, JAVA REST APIs(Synchronous/asynchronous), Spring Boot, DB ORM(hibernate), Java and web frameworks at scale.
• Must have a solid understanding of latest web technologies (TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS), REST,JSON and other relevant API standards like OAuth, SAML.
• Experience with both NoSQL and SQL datastores including MySQL and MongoDB
• Experience within container space, understands and able to quickly build and drive team to support future systems.
• Experience with tools development, automation (CI/CD, Auto Deployment, System Availability, etc.).
• Extended experience in Agile Release Management practices, governance, and planning.
• Ability to quickly identify and manage/mitigate production issues.
• Experience with large-scale systems with both VM and Container based multi datacenter (active active) solutions, external 3rd parties such as Akamai, Cloud Fare, etc. and how to bring the solution together into a single view.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to maintain composure under pressure and tight deadlines.

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.