Staff SW Engineer (7+ Years, Java, Microservices)

Staff SW Engineer (7+ years, Java, Microservices)

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.

Visa's Technology Organization is a collaborative community of problem solvers and innovators dedicated to reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world's most sophisticated processing networks as the leader in digital payments, supporting up to 65,000 secure transactions per second across a global network of over 100 million merchant locations and nearly 15,000 financial institutions, empowering billions of cardholders worldwide.

Commercial & Money Movement Solutions (CMS) is a key strategic growth engine for Visa, underpinning our leadership as the largest commercial card network and the largest money movement platform globally. CMS enables Visa to address extraordinary payments flows—spanning B2B, P2P, B2C, and G2C segments—by leveraging Visa-grade reach, technology, scalability, and security. With more than 11 billion endpoints and 6x transaction growth since FY19, CMS powers expansive use cases and vertical solutions, deepens client relationships, enables value-added services on new flows, and unlocks data access and AI capabilities for revenue diversification. This is an opportunity to help shape the future of global commerce and money movement.

The Opportunity

We are looking for dedicated, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Staff 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 and B2B.
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services.
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements and address project requirements.
• Work with Product owners, architects and other relevant stakeholders to gather and refine requirements for one or more products, taking in to account the existing tools and solutions across departments.
• Translate functional requirements into system designs for one or more components and communicates how the components will interact.
• Demonstrates understanding of non-functional requirements (NFR) and their impact on the system. Leads junior engineers in understanding requirements.
• Participate in design and code review sessions as appropriate - to ensure the quality of work delivered by teammates is in accordance with development standards.
• Learn and adopt technologies, like generative AI, that provide developer productivity improvements.

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, 'hacking' beyond traditional solutions
• Language Expertise: Expertise in JAVA as a development language.
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as coding with GenAI, new backend, front-end, test and devops technologies.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

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

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.