Lead Software Engineer (full stack)

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.   

As a Lead Software Engineer, 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 be take leadership roles working on multiple projects building full stack development of real-time transactional services, REST services API and Container based services that are highly functional, distributed, secure, scalable and resilient. 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 including Facebook, Nike, FedEx, Apple to name a few. You will be driving innovation that makes our products stand apart from our competitors, delight the customer with faster times for market delivery.

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.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll help our customers achieve their real goals by understanding their requirements and how they respond to their business needs.
• You will build partnerships with product management to make sure that the products we are building deliver real value.
• You’ll use technologies that include Java, REST, NoSQL, Docker and more.
• You will analyze business requirements and architect a solution that is robust and scalable along with providing technical documentation of solution.
• You have the work and academic experience that will demonstrate proficiency and ease with programming languages, code quality initiatives, scripting languages and operating systems.
• You’ll leverage new technologies to build the next generation of Risk Services.-You’ll lead efforts to architect, design and implement various components of our global transaction processing systems.
• Your DNA would include following and creating software best practices and processes.
• You coach and mentor your team members and help them grow professionally.
• You’ll lead meeting and discussions with cross-functional and non-technical teams.
• You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and above all, you are a team player!

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant work experience with a University Degree 
• You have proven experience leading teams that have delivered high quality large scale enterprise class applications.
• You are a Java expert and you have experience with REST APIs, JSON and exposure to container based technologies.
• You have strong experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, JUnit, PowerMock.
• Ensure proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.
• Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques.
• We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand customer requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions and improvements.
• While you’ll 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 a strong work ethic to focus on our goals.
• You have proven experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the requirements and independently, architect, design and build the solution.
• You have the passion to work with people and help mentor your juniors to reach new heights.
• As an end-end champion for your products, you will have strong debugging and Unix skills to help support our Operations teams.
• A background in the fraud detection domain is a plus
• Knowledge of functional programming is a plus.
• Exposure to leading edge areas such as Machine Learning that lead to deeper customer insights.
• Passion for Big Data and analytics in general leveraging technologies like Hadoop, Spark, MapReduce

What we offer:

• Competitive salary package with annual performance bonus.
•  Comprehensive healthcare coverage, including dental, hospital and vision.
•  Generous paid time off policy - vacation, sick time, and personal days.
•  An inclusive, collaborative and supportive work environment - diversity and inclusion initiatives, employee resource groups, team-building activities.
•  Employee stock purchase program and profit-sharing.
•  Tuition reimbursement for furthering education.
•  Career advancement and learning opportunities.
•  Fitness reimbursement and wellness programs.
•  Work-life balance offering flexible work hours and remote work options.