Senior Software Engineer - APIs, Java

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Visa is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in APIs to join our Visa Recurring Payment Monitor team. This role will be primarily responsible for the design, development, documentation, testing, and release of various API components using open-source technologies. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with other Visa teams including Architecture, Operations & Infrastructure, Application Support, Configuration Management, Client Services, and other Product Development teams.

Responsibilities:

• Develop high-quality API code deliverables following the team's development process and adhering to the team's definition of done/completion.
• Implement best practices and Visa standards in secure coding and overall delivery processes.
• Review code created by other software engineers and help clear blockers to enhance team performance.
• Actively participate in the agile software development process and contribute to its continuous improvement.
• Contribute towards functional, application, infrastructure architecture & design creation.
• Work closely with product owners to identify & review requirements, translate them into application design and reflect them in epics and stories.
• Contribute to release management, code configuration management, and continuous delivery pipeline processes.
• Assist the application support team with application deployments in production environments.
• Assist with resolving any queries or issues from internal and external clients and stakeholders.
• Collaborate efficiently with the team to ensure timely turnaround of work products.
• Exhibit enthusiasm for change activities to foster a positive atmosphere.
• Identify scope creeps and inform the appropriate stakeholders.
• Identify and mitigate risks that may impact the product.
• Ensure proper documentation is available for each area of delivery.
• Participate in maintenance activities such as security patching and technology version upgrades.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience.
• 3 to 5 years of relevant experience.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills.
• Essential experience in developing RESTful APIs using JSON, Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
• Experience in developing applications using MySQL/Postgres database technology.
• Proficiency in Software Configuration Management & Continuous Integration principles, and tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, Maven, JFrog Artifactory, and Groovy.
• Knowledge and experience of working in containerized environments such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Knowledge of UNIX and shell scripting.
• Experience in various forms of testing in agile environments using automated testing techniques and tools/technologies like Test Driven Development (TDD), Rest Assured, Selenium, Gherkin and Cucumber.
• Work with high availability active-active & active-passive multi-data centre applications with disaster recovery capabilities would be an advantage.
• Familiarity with developing User Interface applications using Angular and JavaScript is beneficial.
• Experience working in an agile development environment.
• Ability to report the status of delivery effectively on a regular basis.
• Experience in secure coding practices and security design.
• Positive attitude, problem-solving skills, conflict resolution, and enabling team collaboration are key traits for this position.
• Experience with high availability active-active & active-passive multi-data centre applications with disaster recovery capabilities is beneficial.
• Experience of providing third line support & working closely with application support, operations, and infrastructure teams for debugging & issue resolution.
• Knowledge of Big Data platforms such as Spark, Scala, Hive, HDFS, Map Reduce, Yarn, HBASE, or Kafka is an advantage.

Visa is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.