Senior Software Engineer - Java/backend (Hybrid/Onsite)

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.

Commercial Money Movement Solutions (CMS) division's charter is to capture new sources of money movement through card and non-card flows, including Visa Business Solutions, Government Solutions and Visa Direct which presents an enormous growth opportunity. Our team brings payment solutions and associated services to clients around the globe. Our global clients and partners deploy our solutions to serve the needs of Small Businesses, Middle Market Clients, Large Corporate Clients,

Multi Nationals and Governments. The Visa Business Solutions (VBS) and Visa Government Solutions (VGS) team is a world-class technology organization experiencing tremendous, double-digit growth as we expand products into new payment flows and continue to grow our core card solutions. This is an incredibly exciting team to join as we expand globally.

VCS Platform is part of Visa Commercial Solutions vertical of Visa's Technology organization. We are responsible for designing, developing, and implementing Virtual Cards, payables, and acceptance commercial platforms to drive incremental revenue. We develop new offerings/products and enhance existing Visa Commercial Solutions product lines including Commercial B2B platforms.

The Opportunity

We are looking for dedicated, 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 innovative payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions. 

The Work Itself

The Sr. Software Engineer role is key to our ongoing transformation, requiring you to solve challenging business problems and build highly scalable, user-friendly applications. Key responsibilities include:

• Designing, documenting, and implementing new systems, enhancements, and modifications to existing software that aligns with design specifications, security, and Java best practices.
• Interacting with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality products and services that meet business requirements, using the latest tools and technology. 
• Delivering zero-defect code and ensuring the team's deliverables meet or exceed business expectations. Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant web based applications. 
• Identifying opportunities for product innovation and improvements to best practices, standards, and processes.
• Contribute to efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI and CD tools.
• Develop and maintain back-end services using Java and Spring Boot, design and develop test automation frameworks, maintain CI and CD pipelines, conduct performance and load testing, and write automated test cases.
• Mentoring junior developers to ensure timely delivery of good quality code.
• Presenting technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms.
• Communicating status, issues, and risks effectively and timely.
• Contributing to the design of backend DBs and queries, API creation and consumption, and front-end UI development. Also manage backend operations and batch jobs to maintain the data. Leverage new technologies to build the next generation of Application stack.
• Working independently to develop software that conforms to Visa’s high standards of security, quality, performance, resiliency, and compliance.
• Independently creating multiple design artifacts for projects and presenting designs to team members and other stakeholders. 
• Collaborating with Technical Product Managers to break down solutions into smaller achievable tasks.
• Supporting test engineers and operation teams in troubleshooting, defect research, issue root cause analysis, etc.

​ Essential Functions

• You are a Java expert, and you have experience with REST APIs, JSON. 
• Solid Experience with back-end technologies such as J2EE, JDBC, JMS and frameworks like Spring or Spring Batch, Spring Boot and vertex.
• Rich Front-End development experience with Angula and React JS, Node.JS, and Material Design is desirable.
• Working experience with Kafka, Redis, or NoSQL datastores is a plus.
• Hands on experience with database technologies like MySQL, DB2, Oracle. 
• You have strong experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, JUnit. 
• Strong in understanding and writing simple and complex SQL. 
• Strong in OOP concepts and design patterns. 
• Strong oral and written communications skills are required. 
• Working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release.
• Strong interpersonal and analytical skills. 
• Exceptional troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Ability to multitask and handle multiple competing priorities with minimal direction from management. 
• Must work well within a team in a fast-paced high-performance organization.
• We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand the requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions. 

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

Basic Qualifications
2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
- Possess either a minimum of 3 years of work experience accompanied by a Bachelor’s Degree or over 2 years of work experience coupled with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD).
- User Interface Design: Demonstrated knowledge in user interface design, focusing on the interaction between users and computers, and ensuring an optimal industrial design experience through effective UI Design.
- API Generation: Proficient in developing and applying Application Program Interfaces (APIs), which include routines, protocols, and tools essential for building software applications, particularly in specifying the interaction between software components and programming graphical user interfaces.
- Experience in software development, particularly in creating full-stack web applications using technologies such as Java, Spring Framework, React, and JavaScript.
- Strong understanding and experience in designing, developing, and integrating RESTful APIs.
- Expertise in constructing responsive Single Page Applications (SPA) that utilize REST services.
- Solid knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming, Service-Oriented Architectures, and Distributed Systems Design.
- Practical experience with Agile development methodologies, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery, utilizing tools such as Git, Jenkins, Maven, and SonarQube.
- Experience with Kafka, Spark, and Hadoop is advantageous.
- Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and contemporary JavaScript UI frameworks like React, Redux, or AngularJS.
- Understanding of data structures, database management, and data integration processes.
- Familiarity with security practices, including authentication and authorization, while ensuring compliance with industry standards.
- Exposure to container-based technologies and cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools, including Jenkins Pipeline, Git, and JIRA.
- Strong understanding of Generative AI (GenAI) adoption and its application in software development.

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 117,600.00 to 166,150.00 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.