Lead SW Engineer

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.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Acceptance Solutions technology team, you will play a crucial role in empowering our most valuable asset—our engineers—to deliver exceptional features with the highest quality. You will collaborate with colleagues who will support, challenge, and inspire you every day. You will be part of teams working on multiple projects, ranging from full-stack development of real-time transactional services and container-based services to building a highly functional, secure, scalable, and resilient platform.

In this role, you will provide technological leadership, serving as the technical expert on strategic projects. You will guide the delivery of initiatives aligned with our business strategy, focusing on innovative payment acceptance and integrated commerce management. You will maintain an awareness of dependencies between projects and the overall delivery vision, while ensuring engineering excellence and reliability.

Additionally, you will develop strategies for your teams to architect, design, and deliver the next wave of enterprise FinTech innovation.

• Experience in commercial software development on Unix/Linux environment.

• Experience in a technical leadership role

• Understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and scalable applications.

• You have expertise of Core Java, JEE technologies, REST and container based technologies.

• You have experience in consumer facing application development experience.

• Proven track record of responsibilities as a technical lead.

• Proven track record of developing and architecting Secure API gateway solution with dynamic set of security standards

• You have experience architecting solutions with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in mind

• You have amazing work ethics that will help us all work extremely well together

• You have the passion to understanding people and to always striving to improve our products and services!

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

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
• You have proven ability to define needs, develop plans, coordinate resources and implement action plans.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously & to resolve scheduling & other conflicts in order to meet all deadlines.
• Thorough understanding of Container based architecture for Cloud such as Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience in cloud migration and multi cloud strategy.
• Experience in building and establishing elastic scalability architectural patterns for web applications,
• Sound understanding of Service and IT operations management, and DevOps model, good knowledge of Deployment, Capacity Planning
• Strong understanding of Enterprise Integration using web services, REST
• Understand the Security requirements and standards, and contemporary trends in Security risks as well as technologies.
• Experience in security domain with secure protocol with authentication, authorization and building secure gateway.
• Experience with a variety of development methodologies and mature understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each. Solid experience with Agile methods is a plus.
• Superior verbal, written & interpersonal communication skills with both technical & non-technical audiences.
• Experience in coaching engineers both on technical and career development
• Excellent team player, with strong collaboration skills and ability to influence cross-functional team for results
• Focus on building an efficient and collaborative team environment

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 0.00 to per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.