Staff SW Engineer (Java Backend, DevSecOps)

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.

Visa’s Technology Organization 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: 

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.   

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, C#, C++)

• 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, 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
•8-12 years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree in computer science or
related technical discipline.
•Some experience with vulnerability management such as provision of
vulnerability scanners, agent provision and maintenance, interpretation of
findings, ranking of finding scores, option assessment, management of
superseded patches, false positives, reassignment of findings, remediation
actions (i.e., patching), confirmation (i.e., re-scanning to confirm remediation),
and management of remediation to a standard.
•Qualys experience is preferred but not required.
•Exposure with application development, software delivery lifecycle, and/or
infrastructure development and administration.
•Awareness of DevOps and DevSecOps principles.
•Familiarity with cybersecurity best practices, principles, security protocols and
standards.
•Understanding of common Cyber Threat terminology, vulnerability and
penetration test methodologies, application reliability concepts, terminology.
•Understands, follows steps for assigned tasks and track the progress of work
to completion.
•Able to communicate and collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to resolve
issues.
•Familiarity with MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and SharePoint.
•Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
•Team player and passionate for contributing to a culture of innovation and
flawless execution.
•Demonstrated ability to drive technical initiatives and identify improvement
opportunities.
•Able to adapt to work across time zones as per project requirements
•Expertise in at least one of the object oriented languages (Java, C#, C++, etc.)
•Strong understanding of Object Oriented Concepts, Service Oriented
Architectures, Distributed Systems Design Concepts and Computer Science
fundamentals
•Driven and self-motivated, work creatively to solve challenging problems
•Knowledge/experience in one of the server-side web application framework
and languages (i.e. C#/.Net MVC or .NET Web API)
•Knowledge/experience in designing and building RESTful APIs
•Understanding of common Cyber Threat terminology, vulnerability and
penetration test methodologies, application reliability concepts, terminology.
•Able to communicate and collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to resolve
issues.

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.