Company Description
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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Job Description
As a Software Engineer - Sr Consultant on the core Payment Processing development team within the Acceptance Solutions organization, you will provide technical leadership, design & build distributed systems, set engineering excellence standards, and collaborate with business teams to develop cutting-edge products and solutions.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• Experience in designing, developing, and deploying scalable and secure distributed applications.
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (Java, Python).
• Hands-on experience in software product development utilizing technologies, tools, and frameworks such as Tomcat, TC Server, VertX, Spring, GIT/Stash, Sonar, etc.
• Experience in developing event-driven applications using technologies like Kafka and MQ.
• Proficiency in SQL and an understanding of other database technologies such as NoSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, etc.
• Experience with containerization technologies and orchestration tools, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with distributed caching technologies such as Hazelcast and Redis.
• Experience in deployment and distribution lifecycle with automated and scalable CI/CD tools, including Jenkins and Maven.
• Continuous delivery and DevOps experience, including infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing, and security implementation and practices.
• Experience in API development using SOAP or REST, JSON, and XML.
• Understanding of API security, security standards, data encryption, and HSMs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and presentation skills, and proven ability to influence and communicate effectively.
• Highly driven, resourceful, and results-oriented.
• Hands-on experience in AI, particularly Generative AI

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  Design and code highly scalable and reliable transaction processing systems.
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  Establish engineering best practices for application development, testing, deployment and monitoring.
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  Leverage AI/ML technologies in bringing productivity across the SDLC phases and develop innovative business solutions and products.
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  Collaborate with business partners to convert product requirements into high quality solutions that comply with all non-functional requirements, including security, scalability, availability, and reliability.
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  Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members, promoting knowledge sharing and professional development.
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  Adhere to Visa’s Leadership Principles by promoting collaboration, encouraging constructive debate, and executing with excellence.
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  Collaborate with security, privacy, and governance teams to ensure that the products developed comply with relevant policies, standards, and regulations.
  This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
  Qualifications
  Basic Qualifications
  8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• Experience in designing, developing, and deploying scalable and secure distributed applications.
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (Java, Python).
• Hands-on experience in software product development utilizing technologies, tools, and frameworks such as Tomcat, TC Server, VertX, Spring, GIT/Stash, Sonar, etc.
• Experience in developing event-driven applications using technologies like Kafka and MQ.
• Proficiency in SQL and an understanding of other database technologies such as NoSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, etc.
• Experience with containerization technologies and orchestration tools, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with distributed caching technologies such as Hazelcast and Redis.
• Experience in deployment and distribution lifecycle with automated and scalable CI/CD tools, including Jenkins and Maven.
• Continuous delivery and DevOps experience, including infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing, and security implementation and practices.
• Experience in API development using SOAP or REST, JSON, and XML.
• Understanding of API security, security standards, data encryption, and HSMs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and presentation skills, and proven ability to influence and communicate effectively.
• Highly driven, resourceful, and results-oriented.
• Hands-on experience in AI, particularly Generative AI.

Additional Information
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.