Staff Software Engineer - Platform as a Service - job 1 of 2

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.

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. Visa's Platform as a Service team is responsible for building and maintaining Visa’s internal hosting platform, enabling teams across the company to develop and launch Generative AI platforms with speed and reliability.

Essential Functions: 

• Responsible for the architecture, design, development, and implementation of software applications.  
• Evaluate and introduce technology tools and processes that enable Visa to develop products and solutions, to embrace business opportunities and/or improve operational efficiency.
• Develop and implement unified control center and monitoring tools to measure, monitor, and report on platform, data availability, utilization, capacity trend, and overall health metrics.  
• Formulate methods to enable consistent data loading and optimize data operations.  
• Monitor health of platforms, generate performance reports, and monitor and provide continuous improvements.  
• Ensure on-time delivery of projects, production support plans, and knowledge transfer for long-term supportability of upgrades, enhancements, and deployments.  
• Understand usage patterns and workload requirements of new projects. Develop code and mentor junior developers to ensure deliverables are on time, within budget, and with good code quality. 
• Produce clear, comprehensive, and well-organized technical documentation to facilitate knowledge sharing across global teams. 
• Effectively operate as part of a globally distributed team, embracing diverse perspectives, time zones, and cultures to achieve organizational goals.
• Develop and design moderately advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable, considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem
• Provide domain expertise on the development of user documentation of solutions and implements standard processes in user documentation.
• Play a significant role in the development and delivery of new features within a product from end-to-end.
• Take responsibility for the end-to-end lifecycle of platform products, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and ongoing support.

The Skills You Bring: 

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale 
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, “hacking” beyond traditional solutions 
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, Python, Javascript, Shell/PowerShell scripting, Ansible Playbooks) 
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability 
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, GENAI technologies etc. 
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams 

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

Basic Qualifications:
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience of building REST based web services & web applications using Java and Spring framework, GoLang, AnglarJS

• Multi-disciplinary skills and experience in ideation, software design, programming, debugging, and optimization.

• Experience writing unit and integration test cases

• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented design and programming concepts

• Possess knowledge of and the ability to use database software (e.g., applications, web-based applications, information systems) to maintain, modify, and output data.

• Have knowledge of systems integration processes where separately produced components or subsystems are combined, and their interaction problems are addressed.

• Understand data structures, which consist of data organization, management, and storage formats, enabling efficient access and modifications. This includes a collection of data values, the relationships among them, and the functions or operations that can be applied to the data.

• Experience in all phases of development - design, coding, testing, debugging, deployment, and monitoring of applications is highly preferred.

• Security and Authentication standards and technologies, including OAuth.

• Flow diagramming and articulating the design or understanding of the code flows.

• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) processes.

• Flavors of GenAI: Experience and understanding of Generative AI technologies and their applications.

• Agentic Framework: Understanding of the agentic framework and mindset for leveraging Generative AI.

• Experience with network architecture, Load balancers, and Firewalls.

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 $131,600 to $210,300 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.