Senior Staff (Lead) Software 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.

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As a Senior Staff Lead Software Engineer leading the Card Processing division in the Acceptance Solutions organization, you will be the driving force behind technological innovation and project execution. You'll spearhead the release strategy, ensuring that every delivery aligns seamlessly with our business strategy, focusing particularly on innovative payment acceptance and integrated commerce management. Setting the gold standard for engineering excellence, your role will be pivotal in architecting, designing, and launching the next generation of enterprise FinTech innovation. Your technical expertise will be the guiding light, illuminating the path to groundbreaking advancements in our field.

Essential Functions:

• Collaborates with Solution or Enterprise Architecture to translate architecture into a delivered solution that realizes the vision and purpose.

• Effectively translates functional and non- functional requirements into an engineered solution.

• Provides the technical guidance the project needs to meet the wider goals of the org strategy.

• To be successful in the role, you will be required to have deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals, micro-services, monolithic applications and its related technologies, multi-tiered architecture and specific experience in designing complex solutions for processing 5000+ TPS with 99.999% availability and highly resilient systems.

• Leads and supports both product and technical discussions about how to apply existing and/or new technology in support of the business.

• In addition to the technical skill set and passion for learning new technologies, the candidate will be a self-starter, results-driven, and equipped with excellent verbal and written communication skills to interface with leadership within Visa , external teams & stakeholders.

• Coach/Mentor others through informal sessions such as brown bags and tech talks.

• Understands how a project fits into the overall technology roadmap and communicate to the team to help establish buy-in and ownership.

• Takes ownership and/or leads the engineering responsibility for multiple components in a project.

• Provides consultative work throughout the project lifecycle to ensure vision and goal of project is realized through delivery.

• Is able to coordinate engineering activities across the delivery of the project.

• Works with engineers to ensure they are delivering quality and efficiently against project requirements

• Successful candidate will have a flair for out-of-box thinking and be passionate about mentoring and coaching junior software engineers. Candidate should also have passion for engineering excellence, reducing TCO and improving TTM.

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.

Basic Qualifications: 

Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum ten (10) years of experience in a directly related field. OR

 Master's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum eight (8) years of experience in a directly related field. OR

 Minimum thirteen (13) years of directly related 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
• 10+ years of hands-on experience and deep knowledge/expertise in software product development of following technologies/frameworks: Java/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, RDBMS, NoSQL DB, Kafka, VertX, TC Server, Containers based Backend REST APIs Applications.
•7+ years of experience in designing/architectural horizontally scalable, multi-tenant backend application 
• Balances time between active coding related activities, design, coordination, mentoring, project management, and/or leading same. 
• Experience in deployment and distribution lifecycle with automated and scalable CI/CD tools including Jenkins, Maven, Stash is a must.
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs. 
• Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis in a complex and interconnect systems.
• A go-getter who is not overwhelmed by new technology, tight timelines, or parallel projects 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and presentation skills, and proven ability to influence and communicate effectively 

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 147,400.00 to 213,800.00 USD 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.