Senior Software Engineer - job 1 of 50

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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Visa is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, who will help build Open VisaNet, Visa's Next generation payment processing platform developed on Open Systems, that would fuel growth in electronic payments globally and drive financial inclusion in many parts of the world.

Open VisaNet, is the Next Generation VisaNet, is a highly scalable, secure, cost effective and distributed application on commodity hardware using best-in-class technology components. Open VisaNet is one of Visa's Key initiative that helps Visa support in-country processing solutions and provides Visa an opportunity to move away from Proprietary Mainframe type systems. It is built as a modern distributed architecture based on micro services with goals of five 9’s availability, fault tolerance, horizontal scalability and real time latency for largest scale transaction processing. Open VisaNet leverages state of the art Open Software technologies to achieve these goals on commodity hardware, such as Go,  Apache Kafka, Cassandra , Docker, Kubernetes etc. and involves collaboration with exceptional group of software engineers, systems performance engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts, infrastructure and solution architects.

Responsibilities include

• Writing efficient, scalable and fault tolerant code for online and batch processing.

• Participate in design discussions and implementation of highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using functional programming paradigm, APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.

• Collaborate with product and architecture teams and create low level design and lead(technical) development efforts, while contributing to the development of new initiatives. Around 1/4th of the development effort will be around bug fixes in QA and Production.

• Develop test scripts, test conditions, input test data, and expected results for one or more test plans in a development cycle by analyzing the Functional Specifications and Business Requirements.

• Reporting potential risks during all any stages of development lifecycle.

• Work and resolve any issues that arise out of the testing process(application or performance).

• Work across the team to ensure the team is predictable, productive, and delivering high quality.

• Ensuring adherence to the company's software testing processes and policies

• Retain Audit compliance while supporting end users during their testing cycle.

• Provide daily updates on the development progress in scrum calls.

• Strong internal customer relationships are essential and this position will work with Business Partners, internal staff, external vendors and system integrators on a daily basis to ensure a high quality code is delivered and the delivered software is highly available, scalable and performant.

• Apply GenAI to build automation, new products and enhance productivity

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)
- Alternatively, more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA).

**Experience Requirements:**
Bachelor's degree :
- 1 year of development experience in GoLang, C/C++, Java, Python, or other functional languages.
- 1 year of experience with SQL and RDBMS.
- (Optional) 1 year of experience with NoSQL DB/Key Value store/Columnar DB.
- 1 year of experience with Distributed Systems.
- Familiarity with the ML stack.
- Familiarity with the GenAI stack.

Master's degree:
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or closely related field, having educational exposure to -
- GoLang, C/C++, Java, Python or other functional languages
- SQL and RDBMS
- Distributed Systems
- Algorithms and Data Structure

Common skillset:
Strong analytical skill
Expertise in various data structures and algorithms
Self driven and motivated
Excellent communication skill
Familiarity/experience in following areas is a plus -
1. GenAI/Mahine Learning
2. Electronic Payments

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 this position is $123,000 to $190,900 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.