Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant level (Performance Engineering) Hybrid/Onsite

Visa
Foster, CA

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

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.

Essential Functions:

Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability

Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings

Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads

Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.

Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology

Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities

Works directly with product owners to gather and refine requirements across products, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions across the organization.

Develops and designs advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable, considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem.

Provides domain expertise on the development of technical documentation of solutions and contributes to standard processes in technical documentation as needed.

Plays a key role in the development and delivery of new features across products from end-to-end.

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD

Bachelors and/or Master’s in computer science engineering or related discipline with 10-14 years experience.

Expert in JAVA

Expert in building and consuming REST APIs

Expert knowledge with Spring Technologies

You have the expertise on the technologies, Hazelcast, KAFKA, Docker/K8S

Expert in diagraming solutions (flow, block, logical)

Comfortable in delivering presentations with small to medium size forums

Experience architecting solutions that is secure, resilient, and scalable

Experience in building out a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline

Knowledgeable about Database technologies like MySQL and NoSQL solutions

Knowledgeable about network architecture, Load Balancing, and Firewalls

Brilliant in Java and REST for developing microservices that are easily deployable and maintainable.

Basic to good knowledge in tools like Jira/Jira Align and experience working in an Agile team.

You have amazing work ethics that will help us all work extremely well together

Knowledge of any RDBMS/NoSQL databases.

Ability to communicate effectively up, down and across to assure that your ideas are heard

Passion for exceeding expectations and delivering exceptional code

You have the passion to understanding people and to always striving to improve our products and services!

The Skills You Bring:

Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale

Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions

Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)

Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability

Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 159,100.00 to 230,900.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

Posted 2025-12-19

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