Staff SW Engineer (Java Fullstack)

About Us

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.

Job Description

Software Development Engineers are expert problem-solvers and builders who design, implement, and improve software applications and systems. In this role, engineers spend approximately 60-75% of their time coding, working hands-on with code, data, and modern tools (including AI-assisted development, cloud services, and automation frameworks) to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality technology solutions that drive business outcomes in the fintech sector. They collaborate with cross-functional teams - product managers, designers, data scientists, QA, operations, and compliance - to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions, all while adhering to best practices, security standards, and regulatory requirements.

All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine requirements for product components and incorporate feedback into future designs or solutions.
• Translate functional requirements into system designs and communicate component interactions, ensuring alignment with business needs and timelines.
• Design and develop product components, refine code plans, and lead design reviews to ensure completeness and adherence to requirements.
• Contribute to project estimation, considering delivery costs and escalating issues that may cause delays.
• Lead by example in creating, implementing, and maintaining extensible, reusable code, and drive code quality through metrics and best practices.
• Apply debugging tools to resolve moderately complex issues and identify opportunities for automation across products.
• Lead code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards and providing feedback to team members.
• Create complex test plans, identify test gaps, and proactively address defects to minimize customer impact.
• Leverage data analysis and monitoring standards to identify patterns and defects in all environments.
• Respond to incidents during on-call rotations, troubleshoot complex issues, and assist in incident response and resolution.
• Build, enhance, and identify new developer tools to support programs and applications.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to trends and technical solutions to improve product performance and recommend resources to other engineers.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

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.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable full-stack applications across the complete software development life cycle.
• Build and maintain enterprise-grade applications using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, JPA, and Hibernate.
• Develop responsive user interfaces using Angular or React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Design and consume APIs using REST, SOAP, JSON, XML, OpenAPI/Swagger, and secure integration patterns.
• Work with relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, or MySQL, including query optimization, indexing, and data modeling.
• Work with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Couchbase, or Redis.
• Support data migration and data pipeline activities, including data extraction, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and production cutover.
• Implement and support event-driven and asynchronous processing using Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, AWS SQS/SNS, or Azure Service Bus.
• Contribute to active-active, high-availability, disaster recovery, and resiliency implementations, including failover testing, replication, load balancing, and zero/minimal downtime deployments.
• Use DevOps tools such as Git, Bitbucket/Stash, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, SonarQube, Artifactory, and Nexus.
• Build and deploy cloud-native services using Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Helm, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Follow secure coding practices and implement authentication/authorization using OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, SAML, and other enterprise security standards.
• Create unit, integration, API, UI, and regression tests using tools such as JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, or Newman.
• Use observability tools such as Splunk, ELK/OpenSearch, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, AppDynamics, or New Relic for monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting.
• Apply GenAI tools responsibly to improve software engineering productivity, including code generation, test automation, documentation, troubleshooting, and code review.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of RAG-based solutions, vector databases, embeddings, prompt engineering, token optimization, and AI governance.
• Demonstrate familiarity with Small Language Models, including model customization, fine-tuning concepts, dataset preparation, evaluation, and inference optimization.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and collaborate with product owners, architects, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, and other stakeholders.
• Deliver high-quality, low-defect code that meets or exceeds quality, security, performance, and delivery expectations.
• Manage multiple priorities effectively and adapt to changing business and technical requirements.
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with container-based technologies.
• Experience building and testing enterprise-scale web services.
• Experience in product development.
• Experience working on client-facing project or technical teams.

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.