Job description
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.
When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.
Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.
We are developing and executing a shared strategic vision for Business Solutions Data Services platforms and products that enable Visa to be the world-leading data-driven payments company. As a Staff Data Engineer, you will be part of a world-class team of Engineers to define, drive and execute on this vision.
The role is that of Staff Data Engineer The successful candidate will help develop customer focused data APIs at scale across petabytes of data using technologies across Java, Hadoop, Spring boot, HBASE, Dockers & Kubernetes as well as adopting new open source technologies. The job involves system architecture, design, development, Optimization, setting expectations and SLAs with focus on reliability, availability and performance to enable Visa’s Global clients. In this position, you are first a passionate and talented developer that can work in a dynamic environment as a member of Agile Scrum teams. Your strong technical leadership, problem-solving abilities, coding, testing and debugging skills is just a start. You must be dedicated to filling product backlog and delivering production-ready code.
This position reports into the Director of Business solutions Data product development and is based in Foster City, CA.
Essential Functions:
- Design and develop mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance.
- Work on development of new products and enhancements to existing systems iteratively by building quick POCs and converting ideas into real products
- Work closely with architects, business and technical stakeholders to develop high quality products and services that meet business requirements and expectations while applying the latest available tools and technology
- Instill best practices for software development, and deliver high quality work on tight schedules.
- Monitor health of the platforms and Generate Performance Reports and Monitor and provide continuous improvements.
- Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes
- Coordinate Continuous Integration activities, testing automation frameworks, and other related items in addition to contributing core product code
- Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner
Basic Qualifications:
- 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD
Preferred Qualifications:
- 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field
- Expert in Java programming language
- Expert in Developing Microservices and REST APIs with Spring Boot
- Experience in Building Low Latency and High Performing Data APIs to serve Petabytes of data
- Dockers & Kubernetes Container experience
- Experience in streaming technologies Apache Kafka, Apache flume, Apache Nifi and Apache Flink
- Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with non-relational databases (Hbase, Rocks DB,Cassandra,Mongo,Redis, Hazel cast) as well as working familiarity with a variety of relational databases like DB2,Oracle etc.
- Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design optimized for building highly distributed and parallelized systems
- Experience in GIT, Maven, Jenkins build tools
- Solid understanding of distributed system concepts, non-functional requirements like logging, monitoring, debugging, alerting, performance
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Experience in Distributed data processing and hadoop eco system
- Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and timeliness
- Ability to deliver on multiple projects and manage priorities based on changing directions
- Excellent presentation, collaboration and communication skills required
- Experience being part of an Agile/Scrum team and following processes
Additional Information
Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.
Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
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.
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.
