Lead Software Engineer - Director level; IC

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.

As a Technology Leader in the Risk and Identity Solutions division at Visa, you will be part of our Enterprise Risk Solutions team to help design, enhance and build our transactional Fraud detection engine in an agile development environment. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. You will take leadership roles working on multiple projects building full stack development of real-time transactional services, RESTful APIs and Container based distributed services that are highly available, secure, scalable, and resilient.

You will spearhead development of next generation software based on machine learning and deep learning. We believe in self-managing Agile teams who build products end to end focusing on unit testing, code reviews and continuous integration for excellent code quality. You will see the code written and moved to production within just a few days, to then be used by a huge customer base.

You will be driving innovation that makes our products stand apart from our competitors and delight the customer with accelerated time-to-market delivery.

You are a trusted technology advisor and thought leader working with architects, DEV leads, test engineering leads, TPMs, product managers, security architects, and other partners across the organization in ensuring that what we build is secure, scalable, performant, and reliable. Every technology and software that you have touched in the past, you have become an SME at with a deep level of understanding how it worked and are able to incorporate this in the most optimize form.

• Design infrastructure that is reliable, performant, and fault tolerant
• Lead Programmer and Expert in developing highly available, reliable, and scalable solutions
• Ensure security, reliability, performance and cost effectiveness of the Risk platform
• Collaborate with the product management, other VISA IT groups and vendors to develop solutions for complex, global business requirements
• Establish architectural and technical standards and processes, ensure adherence to them through governance
• Evaluate and identify appropriate technology solutions to meet business and technology challenges, guide product development teams through their implementation
• Keep abreast of evolving technologies and anticipate technological evolutions that could be leveraged to enhance current architectures
• Design solutions involving moving existing applications and services to the cloud (public and hybrid).
• Champion technology innovation
• Create Projects, Features, and Stories for Technology driven projects and initiatives
• Evaluate and develop PoCs for new technologies and hands-on programmer.
• Lead and build scalable and distributed services that will help power the AI infrastructure for deep learning platforms.
• Collaborate with project team members (Product Managers, Architects, Analysts, Software Engineers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure development and implementation of new data driven business solutions.
• Be a technical leader on various projects across the platform and be a major contributor and beings hands-on for the entire platform’s architecture.
• Troubleshoot Production Issues as needed by working closely with Product and Support Teams

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

• 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR…