Staff 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.

Visa Technology & Operations LLC, a Visa Inc. company, needs a Staff SW Engineer (multiple openings) in Austin, TX to:

• Design, enhance, and build next generation fraud detection platforms in an agile development environment.
• Play part of multiple teams tasked with projects ranging from full stack development, Rest based APIs, Container based services to highly functional, secure, scalable, and resilient systems.
• Lead teams/projects functionally and will be responsible for delivering to Ecosystem and Operation Risk roadmap commitments.
• Contribute to release planning exercise, assign, and track work of team members to timely releases.
• Responsibilities include technical analysis and creation of conceptual approach.
• Develop code that complies with design specifications and meets security and Java best practices.
• Perform coding that must adhere security standards, be easily maintainable and be high performant.
• Set Coding standards and best practices for the teams’ deliverables.
• Evaluate options and provide recommendation on scope and scale of effort required to implement final requirements.
• Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to standards, best practices, and development methodologies.
• Participate and lead design and code review sessions as appropriate to ensure the quality of work delivered by self and teammates are in accordance with development standards.
• Collaborate with business partners on requirements elaboration, design, configuration, and business re-engineering.
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms.
• Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.
• Position reports to the Austin, Texas office and may allow for partial telecommuting.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field, followed by 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or in a software engineer-related occupation.
• Position requires experience in the following:
  • Full stack technology, in at least one of the following technologies: Java, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Angular, JavaScript, MySQL, Maven, Design Patterns, or Test Automation framework;
  • Front-end development skills and architect level knowledge in back-end;
  • Developing large scale, enterprise class distributed systems of high availability, low latency, & strong data consistency;
  • Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies GIT, Maven, and Jenkins;
  • Event driven architecture utilizing message brokers such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent;
  • Stakeholder communication to understand their requirements and translate those requirements into detailed user stories and acceptance criteria; and
  • Using caching and NoSQL technology (Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra or equivalent) to improve efficiency of multi-threaded/multi-process applications/services.

Worksite: Austin, TX

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.

Travel Requirements:  This position does not require travel.

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.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for this position is $163,550.00 USD to $210,300.00 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.