Chief SW Engineer

Job title:

Chief SW Engineer

Company:

Visa

Job description

Company DescriptionVisa 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 DescriptionAs the Chief Software Engineer, you will be the technical lead for a portfolio of projects within the VISA Acceptance Solutions (formerly Merchant & Acquirer Processing – MAP PD group).You will be leading Alternate Payment Systems domain, which is one of the fastest growth verticals for Visa. You will be a strong technical influencer and collaborator across functions. In this role, you will have the opportunity to introduce new services that enhance existing products or enable new products, recommend and evangelize new technologies that will improve the status quo, offer technical solutions to operate with greater resilience, security and throughput.The solutions you design will be large scale, always available, secure, performant, accessible and globally ready. Your solutions will be used by millions of people worldwide every second of the day. As the Chief Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to bring your creative curiosity and technology experience to work every day and build platforms that are consumed across the world to create seamless, fast, reliable and user-friendly experiences. You will interact with senior executives, senior product managers, and external partners like Fortune 100 system integrators, payment service providers, acquiring banks and merchants.The role involves extensive hands-on activities. Here are key job responsibilities:

• Understand the Payments industry and where Acceptance Solutions fit in the payment ecosystem
• Understand the business initiatives and their importance to the growth of Acceptance Solutions.
• Develop a good understanding of the Acceptance Solutions technology platforms and the target state architecture for commerce services and partner lifecycle management.
• Provide technical leadership and vision, leadership in execution of projects for Acceptance Solutions. Activities would include sizing, designing, coding, code reviews and design reviews, leaning more towards sizing, designing and review activities.
• Lead internal proof of concept initiatives. When needed, quickly design and implement a prototype of a system or component with a proper architecture, before handing over to a team to finish.
• Define and drive technology standard and best practices for this product development organization. Drive engineering best practices and operational best practices across the organization.
• Develop strategies to meet business objectives with existing or emerging technologies and articulate technology solutions as well as explain the competitive advantages of various technology alternatives keeping in mind the platforms’ needs of security, high scalability (5000+ tps) and six nines of availability.
• Build relationships with key architects across technology organizations and collaborate on promoting architectural best practices across technology.
• Develop, represent and explain the value and vision of proposed technology solutions to a wide range of cross functional audience, from sales to product management to client services.

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 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.QualificationsBasic Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
• 18 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or with an Advanced Degree.
• Led and delivered complex projects where complexity is a function of a combination of these factors – domain knowledge, distributed architecture, technical stack, influencing and collaborating with multiple technology partners and business partners
• Extensive experience on architecture, design of large-scale platforms and application
• Strong understanding and working experience in Distributed Web Architecture – should have experience with service registry, container architecture, distributed caching, streaming apps, NoSQL and RDBMS
• Hands-on understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and scalable web service
• Expertise with the Java 8 platform or higher, Spring, Vertx framework or similar
• Experience in building Microservices, specifically with HTTP, REST, JSON and XML
• Experience in Advanced Java Script, Angular / React
• Experience with Cloud technologies – GCP, Azure or AWS
• Sound understanding of Service and IT operations management and DevOps model, good knowledge of deployment and capacity planning
• Strong understanding of Enterprise Integrations using web services and REST
• Understanding of Security requirements, standards and contemporary trends in Security risks as well as technologies
• Adept at leveraging GenAI tools like Copilot, Claude Sonnet for faster development
• Experience with agile development process
• Experience in the Payment domain is a plus

Additional InformationVisa 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.

Expected salary

Location

Warszawa, mazowieckie

Job date

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 23:05:27 GMT

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