Lead SW Engineer

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.

• Be a hands-on engineer, Lead by example.
• Research and evaluate new technologies, tools, and frameworks. Drive development of product innovation.
• Collaborate with product and development teams to drive the technical roadmap. Architecture and design of product capabilities including batch, streaming engines, transaction processing, web-based application, Distributed Data Systems, & Observability
• Business and technical analysis, design, coding, unit testing, implementation, and documentation of solutions for new development, system enhancements, and production support
• Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to standards, best practices, automation, and development methodologies.
• Coaching, mentoring junior team members, code reviews, and evolving team talent pipeline.

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

Basic Qualifications:
10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD.
12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
Minimum 12 years of experience in design and development of large-scale enterprise products, highly scalable and resilient applications using Java/Golang and opensource technologies.
Proficient with cloud computing, databases, and APIs.
Proficient in middleware technologies like Kafka, Redis, Distributed Cache, NOSQL DBs
Experience developing Generative AI products and using Claude, GH Copilot etc in software development life cycle.
Proficient in leading the application security designs and implementations and performance optimizations of large-scale distributed systems.
Ability to solve complex software development/design problems. Ability to lead the application observability including alerting and monitoring of application.
Ability to lead or influence the CI/CD pipelines for continuous application delivery in a Kubernetes orchestration environment.
Expert knowledge of software engineering principles, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
Ability to write clean, coherent code following established coding guidelines.
Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, including ability to effectively communicate architectural and design issues and concepts to multiple organization levels and executive management through presentations and diagrams.
Have high sense of accountability for quality and timeliness of one’s own deliverables and team deliverables.
Ability to deliver on multiple projects and manage priorities based on changing directions.
Previous experience in the Payment industry products is a plus.

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.