Staff Software Engineer - Java Backend in Belfast

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

Company Description

• Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

• When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, enhancement, and build of our integrations with different payment networks as a pivotal figure within our VPC & Domestic Processing team in Payment Processing

• Actively participate in development projects, constructing, REST services API, and container-based services.

• Develop and maintain highly functional, secure, scalable, and resilient systems

• Prioritize and manage multiple demands and projects in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Create, implement, and assess best practices to continually find areas of improvement.

• Coordinate multiple work streams and ensure all are aligned with the project goals and schedules.

• Become a pillar of support and knowledge within the team, continuously challenging and pushing for team-wide growth and success.

• Regularly report progress, issues and solutions to upper management to keep them informed.

• Provide technical leadership to development team by participating in design, performing design reviews and code reviews.

• Provide technical leadership for quality assurance and test engineering activities – manual and automation

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 two days a week, Mondays and Tuesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

• Relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or with an Advanced Degree.
• You have payments related SME knowledge in one or more of the following industries – Banking, Fintech, Retail, Healthcare, Insurance
• You have expertise of Core Java, JEE technologies, Web technologies, JavaScript and container based technologies.
• Proficient in Web Services/API Development using SOAP or REST, JSON and XML.
• Experience in Kafka - Ability to install, maintain and troubleshoot Kafka. Have experience with messaging and stream processing on Kafka. Have ability to set up and configure Kafka brokers.
• Proficient with containerization(Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc.).
• Proficient with RDBMS systems like SQL Server, Oracle or DB2 or No-SQL DBs like Mongo DB.
• Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and timeliness.
• Experience working in technology industry with experience in testing applications.
• Strong technical competency and experience with API testing, Java automation and end to end testing.
• You are an expert in proposing solutions for building world class payment solutions which includes Development, monitoring, troubleshooting, triaging
• You have experience architecting solutions with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in mind
• You have the ability to work with various Solutions architects/Architects to build tailored solutions for various system integrations.
• You are an advocate to rest of the teams to best engineering practices to delivery with highest quality possible, with top velocity.
• We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand customer requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions
• While you will 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
• Previous experience with financial services/payments processing experiences a big plus.
• High level of capacity to manage multiple projects and tasks concurrently in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Detail-oriented approach to work, emphasizing accuracy and thoroughness in all tasks.
• Excellent strategic and technical problem-solving skills.
• Familiar with AGILE and able to lead scrum ceremonies
• A self-starter with a strong sense of individual motivation.
• Exceptional communication and team collaboration skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into understandable terms for non-technical stakeholders.

Additional Information

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.