Staff Software Engineer (Backend, Java, Gen AI)

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.

Our Acceptance Solution team is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.

The Opportunity:

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be part of our Card Processing, Acceptance Solutions org to help design, enhance and build our transactional platform in an agile development environment. You will play part of multiple teams tasked with multiple projects ranging from building full stack development of real-time transactional services, REST services API, Container based services to highly functional, secure, scalable and resilient real time payment systems. You will see the code written and moved to production within just a few days to a week, to then be used by a huge customer base.

If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit for both of us.

Essential Functions:

• Help our customers achieve their real goals by understanding their requirements and how they respond to their business needs.
• Use technologies that include Java, REST, SQL, NoSQL, Docker and more.
• Analyze business requirements and architect a solution that is robust and scalable along with providing technical documentation of solution.
• Leverage new technologies to build the next generation of transactional systems.
• Develop and deliver new features every few days and be responsible for them end-end.
• Demonstrate proficiency and ease with programming languages, code quality initiatives, scripting languages and operating systems.
• Develop in commercial software development on Unix/Linux environment.
• Develop in consumer facing application development.
• Development, unit testing, code reviews and regular check-ins to continuous integration will be part of your DNA

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

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years
• of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Strong experience in building large scale enterprise level backend applications
• using Java, Spring, REST API, RDBMS, NoSQL, Vertx, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Jenkins.
• Good analytics & problem-solving skills with a solid foundation in algorithms, data-structures and common design patterns.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery, deploying in containers
• like Dockers.
• Experience with TDD using JUNIT/functional automation testing and tools.
• Proven experience delivering complex software projects and solutions
• effectively through
• Agile methodologies on a regular release cadence.
• Strong leadership skills, with a proven ability to think big and challenge the
• status quo.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work well in a team and independently.
• Familiarity with generative AI technologies and their practical applications.
• You have amazing work ethic that will help us all work extremely well together
• You have the passion to understanding people and to always striving to improve our products and services

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 124,700.00 to 180,650.00 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.