Staff SW Engineer

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Value added Service [Acceptance Solutions]is a Product Development (PD) Group within the Visa Technology Team. This group is responsible for building leading edge full-service Payment Solutions for our customers by combining global payment processing, fraud management, payment security and reporting systems. We are a group of bright, motivated engineers and technical managers excited about building the next generation of Payment products that will drive e-Commerce, mobile-Commerce as well as POS businesses for our customers.

Accountable for creating application and infrastructure performance plans/models for a highly scalable, low-latency, highly-available and high-throughput payment processing system.
Work with the architects and development team to ensure proper metrics instrumentation done in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.
Hands on experience in Unix/Linux OS environments and operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols System internals. Having working knowledge with VMs and Containers.

Expert knowledge and strong experience using tools, Loadrunner/Jmeter,. etc. and understanding of APM solutions like Appdynamics, dynatrace, OPNET,. etc
Coding Knowledge in programming languages like Java/Python and scripting languages is must
Evaluate, develop and execute load test tools to stress the limits of Visa’s most critical payment applications.

Understand and performance test the APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.
Should have experience in defining Performance Strategy and reporting performance baselines required to certify Go-Lives. Should have strong experience in handling multiple tasks and stakeholders
Should be well versed in documenting the steps performed during course of performance tests cycle including performance test scripts used
Should be able to able to look at the code and suggest optimization techniques.

As a Software Engineer on the Acceptance Solutions team, will design and develop our services for customers in an agile environment. Collaborating with supportive and challenging colleagues, will engage in unit testing, code reviewing, and regular check-ins for continuous integration as part of your routine.
 
The responsibilities include designing, documenting, and implementing new systems, as well as enhancing and modifying existing software to comply with design specifications, security, and Java best practices. The individual will have to interact with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality products and services that meet business requirements and expectations while leveraging the latest tools and technologies.
 
The individual should have a passion for delivering zero-defect code and ensuring the team's deliverables meet or exceed business expectations. Identify opportunities for product innovation and strive to improve best practices, standards, and processes. Coordinate Continuous Integration activities, testing automation frameworks, and other related tasks, while contributing core product code. The individual needs to effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.
This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Academics: Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
Years of Experience 7 to 12 years
Skill Set :
Experience in distributed enterprise application development using Java Technology Stack
Experience Server side development experience
 Coding experience at least one technology stack preferably Java Or C or Python and other related technologies
 Good understanding of RDBMS such as Oracle, MySQL,MSSQL
 Excellent understanding of CI/CD process. Should have exposure to tools such as Jenkins, Maven
 Should be able to design and components independently, experience in highly scalable web services Exposure to containerized microservices architecture and stacks is a big plus
troubleshooting root cause analysis and implementing major components for large projects is a plus
Knowledge of tools like Splunk Opera Thread Heap dump analysis GC  Grafana of monitoring of system matrix and application analysis tools is an advantage 
Good understanding of Algorithms and Data structures
Must have worked in agile and scrum
Excellent communication skill
Knowledge of GenAI, Chatgpt,LLM is a plus
 

Additional Information

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.