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Progress starts with you.\nJob Description\nOverview:\nValue added Service [Risk and Security]is a Product Development (PD) Group within the Visa Technology Team. This group is responsible for building leading edge full-service Payment Solutions for our customers by combining global payment processing, fraud management, payment security and reporting systems. We are a group of bright, motivated engineers and technical managers excited about building the next generation of Payment products that will drive e-Commerce, mobile-Commerce as well as POS businesses for our customers.\nAs a Software Engineer on the Risk and Security team, will design and develop our services for customers in an agile environment. Collaborating with supportive and challenging colleagues, will engage in unit testing, code reviewing, and regular check-ins for continuous integration as part of your routine. The responsibilities include designing, documenting, and implementing new systems, as well as enhancing and modifying existing software to comply with design specifications, security, and Java best practices. The individual will have to interact with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality products and services that meet business requirements and expectations while leveraging the latest tools and technologies.\nKey Responsibilities:\nAccountable for creating application and infrastructure performance plans/models for a highly scalable, low-latency, highly-available and high-throughput payment processing system.\nWork with the architects and development team to ensure proper metrics instrumentation done in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.\nHands on experience in Unix/Linux OS environments and operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols System internals. Having working knowledge with VMs and Containers.\nExpert knowledge and strong experience using tools, Loadrunner/Jmeter,. etc. and understanding of APM solutions like Appdynamics, dynatrace, OPNET, or other comparable tools\nCoding Knowledge in programming languages like Java/Python and scripting languages is must\nEvaluate, develop and execute load test tools to stress the limits of Visa’s most critical payment applications.\nUnderstand and performance test the APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.\nShould have experience in defining Performance Strategy and reporting performance baselines required to certify Go-Lives.\nShould have strong experience in handling multiple tasks and stakeholders\nShould be well versed in documenting the steps performed during course of performance tests cycle including performance test scripts used.\nShould be able to able to look at the code and suggest optimization techniques.\nWork with the architects and development team to ensure proper metrics instrumentation done in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.\nHands on experience in Unix/Linux OS environments and operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols System internals. Having working knowledge with VMs and Containers, solve challenging distributed computing problems.\nBuild in-depth expertise on the 24x7 systems of Visa that support our clients.\nSupport issues within SLAs for established issue priorities, fix issues/bugs enhancements.\nWhat You'll Do:\nDesign for Reliability: Architect and implement solutions that keep Visa's application services running with Always On availability.\nAutomate Everything: Create intelligent automation for monitoring, deployment, and incident response.\nLead Investigations: Use your detective skills to solve complex technical puzzles and prevent future incidents.\nDrive Innovation: Contribute to our evolution from traditional application to cloud-native solutions.\nCollaborate Globally: Work with talented engineers and clients like issuer, acurirer, mercnaht and partners across the world to build, support, and deploy application services and solve the real world problems in day today work.\nWhy You'll Love It:\nReal Impact: Your code, monitor, debug and will help process millions of transactions, merchant, acquirer enabling commerce worldwide.\nGrowth Opportunities: Regular learning sessions, mentorship programs, and exposure to cutting-edge technology.\nWork-Life Integration: Hybrid work model (2-3 days in office) with flexible scheduling.\nInclusive Culture: Join a team that actively promotes diverse perspectives and collaborative problem-solving.\nTechnical Areas You'll Grow In:\nCloud & System Architecture: Design scalable, resilient systems across hybrid cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and On Premise\nAI/ML Operations: Support and optimize ML model deployment pipelines and monitoring systems.\nObservability & Performance: Master advanced monitoring, tracing, and performance optimization techniques.\nAutomation & Intelligence: Build smart alerting systems and automated remediation workflows.\nDistributed Systems: Monitor and maintain globally distributed payment processing systems on multiple regions.\nThe individual should have a passion for delivering zero-defect code and ensuring the team's deliverables meet or exceed business expectations. Identify opportunities for product innovation and strive to improve best practices, standards, and processes. Coordinate Continuous Integration activities, testing automation frameworks, and other related tasks, while contributing core product code. The individual needs to effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.\nVisa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.\nQualifications\nBasic Qualifications:\n10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) OR 14+ years of relevant work experience.\nPreferred Qualifications:\n10 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree.\nExperience in distributed enterprise application development using Java Technology Stack.\nExperience Server side development experience.\nProficient in at least one of the programming languages (Java, C++, Python, etc.).\nGood understanding of RDBMS such as Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres.\nExcellent understanding of CI/CD process. Should have exposure to tools such as Jenkins, Maven, GithubActions, etc.\nExpert knowledge and strong experience using tools, Loadrunner, Jmeter, etc. and understanding of APM solutions like Appdynamics, dynatrace, OPNET, or other comparable tools.\nProficient in performance testing tools like LoadRunner, Jmeter, Blazemeter, etc and APM/Observability solutions like AppDynamics, Dynatrace, OPNET, Prometheus, Grafana.\nShould be able to design and components independently, experience in highly scalable web services Exposure to containerized microservices architecture and stacks is a big plus.\nTroubleshooting root cause analysis and implementing major components for large projects is a plus.\nKnowledge of tools like Splunk Opera Thread Heap dump analysis GC Grafana of monitoring of system matrix and application analysis tools is an advantage.\nGood understanding of Algorithms and Data structures.\nMust have worked in agile and scrum.\nExcellent communication skill.\nKnowledge of GenAI, ChatGPT, LLM is a plus.\nVisa is an EEO Employer\nQualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. 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