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.
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Job Description
“This role qualifies for Autorskie Koszty Uzyskania Przychodu (KUP), in accordance with applicable Polish tax regulations. Eligible employees may benefit from preferential tax treatment on income derived from the creation of intellectual property, subject to meeting statutory criteria.”
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.
The Opportunity:
We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.
The Work itself:
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 intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.
Leverage innovative technologies with GenAI to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology
Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities
Essential Functions:
- Works directly with product owners to gather and refine requirements across products, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions across the organization.
- Develops and designs advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable, considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem.
- Provides domain expertise on the development of technical documentation of solutions and contributes to standard processes in technical documentation as needed.
- Plays a key role in the development and delivery of new features across products from end-to-end.
The Skills You Bring:
- 6-8 or more years of work experience
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, or related field.
- 6+ years of experience in software development with Java, Python and Docker/Kubernetes
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, frameworks and design patterns.
- Ability to design and implement scalable, resilient and maintainable systems
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar.
- Experience with public and/or private cloud platforms
- Experience with relational and NoSQL database systems
- Knowledge of big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark and Kafka
- Familiarity or experience with GenAI
- Data preprocessing, feature engineering, and exploratory data analysis to prepare datasets for model training
- Familiarity with machine learning frameworks and libraries (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch etc)
- Familiarity with data manipulation and analysis tools (e.g. pandas, NumPy)
- Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
- Break down complex projects into manageable tasks, establish MVP scope and prioritize deliverables.
- Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment, collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage stakeholder relationships
- Demonstrated leadership capability, including ability to mentor and guide junior developers
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- A curious nature with a strong desire to learn and grow
- Ability to learn from mistakes and apply lessons to future challenges.
- Willingness to listen and learn from colleagues to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
- 6+ years Java: Strong proficiency in Java programming.
- Integration: Experience with integrating with other systems and third-party services (e.g., RESTful APIs, SOAP, OAuth, SAML).
- Familiarity with building and deploying applications using microservices architecture.
- Build Tools: Familiarity with build and dependency management tools like Maven and Jenkins.
- Testing: Experience in unit testing using Junit.
- Solution Design: Ability to design scalable, maintainable, and performant solutions.
- Security: Understanding of security best practices.
- Performance Optimization: Skills in optimizing for performance, including caching strategies and efficient use of resources.
- Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to address complex technical challenges.
- Collaboration: Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
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.
