Senior Data Engineer

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.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

The successful candidate will be working in the Loyalty and Marketing Services Development team which is part of the Data product development organization. This is a full stack developer for a self-motivated individual with excellent software and data engineering skills and expertise in Java/J2EE, Big Data, Hadoop technologies. The candidate will be extensively involved in hands-on activities including POCs, design, documentation, development, and testing. The candidate should be a motivated self-starter and quick learner.
 

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of various initiatives to deliver the business functionalities.
• Design, develop and maintain mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance.
• Develop high quality code, participate in code reviews, and mentor junior developers to ensure the deliveries on time.
• Have a passion for delivering zero defect code and be responsible for ensuring the team's deliverables meet or exceed the prescribed defect SLA.
• Coordinate and participate in Continuous Integration activities, automation frameworks for testing and deployments etc. in addition to contributing to core product code.
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, and features in business terms.
• Adhere to Secured coding standards and develop code for high system performance.
• Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.
• Work on development of new products iteratively by building quick POCs and converting ideas into real products.

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications :

• 3+ years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree or at least 1+ years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

Preferred Qualifications :

• Bachelor's / Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or relevant field required.
• 1-3 years of software design, architecture, and development experience.
• Strong foundation in computer science, with excellent competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design, optimized for building highly distributed and parallelized systems
• Strong experience in building large scale applications using open source and J2EE/Big Data technologies
• Strong experience with Big Data ecosystem like Hadoop, Spark, Map Reduce, Kafka or equivalent
• Strong in Core Java development concepts and design patterns.
• Good design and coding skills in Java/J2ee, Web Services, Spring, Hibernate, Soap/Rest APIs.
• Capability to work in UI stack using advance Java Script frameworks like AngularJS, Backbone etc. is preferable.
• Capable to leverage DevOps techniques and practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test Automation, Build Automation and Test Driven Development to enable the rapid delivery of working code utilizing tools like Jenkins, Maven, Chef, Git and Docker.
• Experience in Agile development using any of the methodologies like SCRUM is a big plus.

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the country where this job is located are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.