Job Description

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.



As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment platform - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive.

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 8, J2EE, Spring, Oracle, MongoDB, React JS, Cassandra, Hazelcast, Kafka, Kubernetes and Docker

As we embark on the journey to enhance the Visa Payments Limited technology platforms, we are looking for a Lead Software Engineer who can participate in the detailed design and development activities for this product build.



The role involves extensive hands-on activities. Here are key job responsibilities -

• Understand the Payments industry and where Visa Payments Limited fits in the payment's ecosystem
• Understand the business initiatives and their importance to the growth of Visa Payments Limited.
• Develop a good understanding of the Visa Payments Limited 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 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.
• Manage and mentor a team of talented engineers.

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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

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 leading an engineering team of 8-12 people is mandatory.
• 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 with shift left practices and performance 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 has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the country where this job is located are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.