Staff SWE Engineer (Java, DevOps - 8+ years' experience)

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:

• Developing, testing, and documenting software programs
• Developing micro services using Java, Sprint boot, Kafka and MySQL.         
• Applying the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of engineering applications and products
• Supporting and/or installs software applications/operating systems    
• Performing code reviews to verify changes meet development requirements and deploying and staging code in development environments
• Developing database queries, or code that generates queries and fixes bugs found in existing codebases
• Contributing to authoring large project deployment procedures
• Developing large applications independently and designing multi-tier solutions
• Producing highly scalable, high performing applications
• Helping preserve goals and business requirements

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

**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 the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 8-12 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or with an advanced degree.
• Experience with vulnerability management such as provision of vulnerability scanners, agent provision and maintenance, interpretation of findings, ranking of finding scores, option assessment, management of superseded patches, false positives, reassignment of findings, remediation actions (i.e., patching), confirmation (i.e., re-scanning to confirm remediation), and management of remediation to a standard.
• Expertise in software development using object-oriented languages like Java, experience in designing and building RESTful APIs
• Qualys experience is preferred but not required.
• Exposure with application development, software delivery lifecycle, and/or infrastructure development and administration.
• Awareness of DevOps and DevSecOps principles.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity best practices, principles, security protocols and standards.
• Understanding of common Cyber Threat terminology, vulnerability and penetration test methodologies, application reliability concepts, terminology.
• Understands, follows steps for assigned tasks and track the progress of work to completion.
• Able to communicate and collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to resolve issues.
• Familiarity with MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and SharePoint.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Team player and passionate for contributing to a culture of innovation and flawless execution.
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical initiatives and identify improvement opportunities.
• Able to adapt to work across time zones as per project requirements  

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.