Lead Software Engineer

Overview

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, connecting the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network. Visa processes more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k financial institutions, and billions of people. Our mission is to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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 focused on Commercial Money Movement Solutions with emphasis on B2B Visa Commercial Solutions.

Join us to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems, shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer who embraces solving complex challenges on a global scale. You will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a global customer base.

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability

• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings

• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads

• Develop robust and scalable products for end-user merchants, B2B, and government solutions

• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Commercial Payment Services

• Opportunities to impact globally or locally through mentorship and continued learning

• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements

• Collaborates with product owners, architects and stakeholders to gather and refine requirements for one or more products, accounting for existing tools across departments

• Translates functional requirements into system designs for components and communicates how components will interact

• Understands non-functional requirements (NFRs) and their impact on the system; mentors junior engineers in understanding requirements

• Designs, codes, tests, documents, and implements new applications as well as existing programs

• Develops code that complies with design specifications and security and coding best practices

• Works independently and provides guidance to junior developers

• Works with team members to resolve technical software development issues and problems

• Participates in design and code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to standards

• Writes automation scripts to functionally automate testing

• Learns and adopts technologies, including generative AI, that improve developer productivity

• Engages with product engineering teams and product owners during code/design reviews, regular meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses

• Uses advanced knowledge of systems and telemetry to propose isolated improvements that deliver customer/business objectives more effectively

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

Basic Qualifications
10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor s Degree or at least 7 years with an Advanced degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
12+ years with a Bachelor s Degree or 8-10 years with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years with a PhD;
Master s degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field and minimum seven (7) years experience; or Bachelor s degree in Math/Science/Engineering with a minimum nine (9) years experience OR minimum twelve (12) years of experience

Technical Skills

Experience with large-scale systems with VM and container-based multi-data-center (active-active) solutions; external 3rd parties such as Akamai/Cloudflare; extensive experience with full-stack HTTP, Java REST APIs, JSON, databases, Spring, Java web frameworks; experience with No

SQL and SQL data stores (e.g., Redis, Hazelcast, MySQL, MSSQL); proficiency in leveraging generative AI to enhance development processes; strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

Leadership & Communication
Exceptional leadership skills; ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders; experience interfacing with senior leadership; familiarity with Visa s products and services; understanding regulatory and compliance requirements in the payments industry

Work Hours: Varies by department needs.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/

Physical Requirements:

Office setting; ability to sit/stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, and operate standard office equipment.

Visa is an EEO employer. Qualified…