Sr. Staff SW Engineer (Java, REST, Kafka, Docker, 15+ yrs)

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

The Risk and Identity Services (RaIS) team is leading in innovation to create secure authentication and authorization experience for our customers and partners. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer in RaIS, you will own end-to-end delivery for key components. You will provide hands-on technology leadership to the team to execute this mission, by guiding and mentoring a world-class team of engineers, defining, executing and delivering functional and non-functional features at scale quickly and promoting a culture of cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence. We expect you to be an idea leader and bring industry practices to benefit the team. This position is based in Bangalore and will report to the Director of Software Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of key components.
• Lead the design, enhancement, and build of our integrations with different e-commerce platforms as a pivotal figure within our Risk and Identity Solutions team.
• Actively participate in full stack development projects, constructing real-time transactional services, REST services API, and container-based services.
• Develop and maintain highly functional, secure, scalable, and resilient real-time and batching systems.
• Prioritize and manage multiple demands and projects in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Create, implement, and assess best practices to continually find areas of improvement.
• Coordinate multiple work streams and ensure all are aligned with the project goals and schedules.
• Become a pillar of support and knowledge within the team, continuously challenging and pushing for team-wide growth and success.
• Regularly report progress, issues and solutions to upper management to keep them informed.

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

.• 15+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or with an Advanced degree.
• This is a core technology position. Candidates should have great hands-on application (backend) development skill.
• You have payments related SME knowledge in one or more of the following industries – Banking, Fintech, Retail, Healthcare, Insurance
• You have expertise of Core Java, JEE technologies, Web technologies, JavaScript and container based technologies.
• Proficient in Web Services/API Development using SOAP or REST, JSON and XML.
• Proficient in Kafka - Ability to install, maintain and troubleshoot Kafka. Have experience with messaging and stream processing on Kafka. Have ability to set up and configure Kafka brokers.
• Experience with containerization(Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc.).
• Experience with RDBMS systems like SQL Server, Oracle or DB2 or No-SQL DBs like Mongo DB.
• Exposure working on UI/Web development using Angular/React, JavaScript, JQuery, and HTML/CSS technologies is required.
• Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and timeliness.
• You are an expert in proposing solutions for building world class payment applications which includes development, monitoring, troubleshooting, triaging
• You have experience architecting solutions with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in mind
• You have the ability to work with various system architects to build tailored solutions for various system integrations.
• You are an advocate to rest of the teams to best engineering practices to delivery with highest quality possible, with top velocity.
• We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand customer requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions
• While you will have the skill to see and understand the big picture, you’re able to stay focused on the task at hand to achieve immediate goals
• You have proven experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the requirement and architect, design and build the solutions.

Additional Information
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.