Staff Sw Engineer

Visa Visa · Fintech · Foster City, CA

Staff Software Engineer at Visa, focused on designing, enhancing, and building transactional platforms and real-time payment systems within the Acceptance Solutions organization. The role involves full-stack development, API design, containerization, and ensuring scalability, security, and resilience of payment services. It requires collaboration across multi-functional teams and leveraging innovative technologies for next-generation payment solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability
  2. Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings
  3. Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads
  4. Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.
  5. Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology

Skills

Required

  • 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.
  • Strong experience in building large scale enterprise level backend applications using Java, Spring, REST API, RDBMS, NoSQL, Vert.x, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Jenkins.
  • Good analytics & problem-solving skills with a solid foundation in algorithms, data structures and common design patterns.
  • Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery, Container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Proficiency with Observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, OpenSearch, M3DB, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, FluentBit, Elastic Search)
  • Experience with TDD using JUNIT/functional automation testing and tools.
  • Proven experience delivering complex software projects and solutions effectively through Agile methodologies on a regular release cadence.
  • Strong leadership skills, with a proven ability to think big and challenge the status quo.
  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work well in a team and independently.

Nice to have

  • GCP or AWS Cloud certifications are a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • Hands-on experience in AI, particularly Generative AI, is highly preferred.