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Payments are a very exciting and fast-developing area with a lot of new and innovative ideas coming to market. With strong demand for new solutions in this space, it promises to be an exciting area of innovation. VISA is a strong leader in the payment industry and is rapidly transitioning into a technology company with significant investments in this area.
If you want to be in the exciting payment space, learn fast and make big impacts, Ecosystem & Operational Risk technology which is part of Visa’s Value-Added Services business unit is an ideal place for you!
In Ecosystem & Operational Risk group, Payment Fraud Disruption team is responsible for building critical risk and fraud detection and prevention applications and services at Visa. This includes idea generation, architecture, design, development, and testing of products, applications, and services that provide Visa clients with solutions to detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud for Visa and Visa client payment systems.
This position is ideal for an experienced Software Engineer who is passionate about collaborating with business and technology partners in solving challenging fraud prevention problems. You will be a key driver in the effort to define the shared strategic vision for the Payment Fraud Disruption platform and defining tools and services that safeguard Visa’s payment systems.
The right candidate will possess strong Software Engineering background, with demonstrated experience in driving technical design for products and services that have created business value and delivered impact within the payments or payments risk domain or similar industries.
A successful candidate is a technical leader with the ability to engage in high bandwidth conversations with business and technology partners and be able to think broadly about Visa’s business and drive solutions that will enhance the safety and integrity of Visa’s payment ecosystem. The candidate will help deliver innovative insights to Visa's strategic products and business. This role represents an exciting opportunity to make key contributions to strategic offering for Visa. This candidate needs to have strong academic track record and be able to demonstrate excellent Software Engineering skills. The candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and excellent collaboration skills.
The ideal candidate will bring the excitement and passion to leverage Generative AI to advance existing fraud detection mechanisms and to innovate and solve new fraud use cases. This engineer will use code generation capabilities like GitHub copilot to drive efficiencies in software development.
Essential Functions
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help design, enhance, and build next generation fraud detection platforms in an agile development environment.
You will play part of multiple teams tasked with projects ranging from full stack development, Rest based APIs, Container based services to highly functional, secure, scalable, and resilient systems.
You will lead teams/projects functionally and will be responsible for delivering to Ecosystem and Operation Risk roadmap commitments.
Contribute to release planning exercise, assign, and track work of team members to timely releases.
Responsibilities include technical analysis and creation of conceptual approach.
Develop code that complies with design specifications and meets security and Java best practices.
Coding must adhere security standards, be easily maintainable and be high performant.
Set Coding standards and best practices for the teams’ deliverables.
Evaluate options and provide recommendation on scope and scale of effort required to implement final requirements.
Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to standards, best practices, and development methodologies.
Participate and lead design and code review sessions as appropriate to ensure the quality of work delivered by self and teammates are in accordance with development standards.
Collaborate with business partners on requirements elaboration, design, configuration, and business re-engineering.
Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. 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.
Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
• 5+ 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, OR 8+ years of relevant work
experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors 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
• Experience in full stack technology, in one or more of the following
technologies- Java, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Angular, JavaScript, MySQL,
Maven, Design Patterns, Test Automation framework
• Experience with agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and
Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, and Jenkins
• Be able to drive and actively engage and contribute to deep application and
system architecture discussions.
• Good front-end development skills and architect level knowledge in back-end
• Ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way.
• Experience with agile development incorporating continuous integration and
continuous delivery.
• Strong facilitation and analytical skills with excellent problem-solving ability
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the
proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and
timeliness of one’s own deliverables and team deliverables
• Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented
• Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity
• Be systematic and be able to do deep research wanting to uncover the details
• Have good work ethics, and be a team player to bring the best results as a
team
• You have the passion to understand people and always strive to improve our
products
• While you'll have the skill to see and understand the big picture, you're able to
stay focused on the task at hand to achieve immediate goals
• Experience with successful design, architecture and development using
Hadoop, and Spark and Scala for large data processing and transaction
systems Experience working with Splunk.
• Experience with Restful API development
• Expertise in web applications and webservices, technology standards and
frameworks
• Experienced in test-driven development and test automation.
• Experience in card industry or fintech delivering solutions in fraud, risk or
payments space.
• Experience in developing large scale, enterprise class distributed systems of
high availability, low latency, & strong data consistency
• Experience developing instrumentation for software components, to help
facilitate real-time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.
Additional Information
** 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.
U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 119,100.00 to 154,800.00 USD, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.
Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.
