Sr. Software Engineer (Java Backend)

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

We are looking for somebody who is excited to contribute on implementation of a metadata-driven platform managing the full lifecycle of batch and streaming Big Data pipelines. This will include the application of ML and AI techniques in data management like but not limited to anomaly detection for discovering and resolving data quality issues and data discovery among others. This platform enables the delivery of Visa's core data assets to both internal and external customers alike

•       Provide Platform-as-a-Service offerings that are easy to consume, scalable, secure, and reliable using open source-based Cloud solutions for Big Data technologies

•       Work at the intersection of infrastructure and software engineering by designing and deploying data and pipeline management frameworks built on top of open-source components, including Hadoop, Hive, Spark, HBase, Kafka streaming and other Open-Source Big Data technologies.

•       Collaborate with various teams to build and maintain the most innovative, reliable, secure, and cost-effective distributed solutions. 

•       Facilitate knowledge transfer to the Engineering and Operations team during and after deployment.

•       Work with geographically distributed teams on technical challenges and process improvements.

•       Responsible for the design and implementation of agile-innovative data pipeline and workflow management solutions that take advantage of technology advances that allow cost reduction, standardization, and commoditization.

•       Drive the adoption of open standard toolsets to reduce complexity and support operational goals for increasing automation across the enterprise.

•       Champion the adoption of open infrastructure solutions that are fit for purpose while keeping technology relevant.

•       Spend 80% of the time writing code in different languages, frameworks, and technology stacks. 

As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable, and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network, and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators, and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
•4 yrs+ of experience in architecture design and development of large-scale data management platforms and data application with simple solutions
•Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline required

Preferred Qualifications
•Must have extensive hands-on coding and designing skills on
•Java for backend, having Python is a plus
•MVC (model-view-controller) for end-to-end development
•SQL/NoSQL technology. Familiar with Databases like Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, etc.
•Web Services (REST/ SOAP/gRPC)
•React/Angular for front-end (UI front-end nice to have)
•Expertise in design and management of complex data structures and data processes
•Expertise in efficiently leveraging the power of distributed big data systems, including but not limited to Hadoop Hive, Spark, Kafka streaming, etc.
•Strong service architecture and development experience with high performance and scalability
•Strong on driving for results and self-motivated, strong learning mindset, with good understanding of related advanced/new technology. Keep up with the technology development in the related areas in the industry, which could be leveraged to enhance current architectures and build durable new ones.
•Strong leadership and team player.
•Strong skills on mentoring/growing junior people
•Payment industry experience is a plus.
What will also help:
•Deep knowledge and hands on experience on big data and cloud computing technologies.
•Experience with LLM / GenAI tools / applications and Prompt Engineering
•Experience with ETL/ELT tools / applications
•Experience with Apache NiFi and Apache Spark for processing large data sets
•Experience on Elastic Search
•Knowledge on Data Catalog tools
•Experience in building Data Pipeline development tools
•Experience with Data Governance and Data Quality tools

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.