1 day ago
Base Salary
$174k - $279k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, development, enhancement, and modernization of Visa’s transaction processing software.
- Build scalable, secure, resilient systems for high-volume payment flows, event-driven processing, and real-time data movement.
- Set technical direction and influence architecture, platform reliability, scalability, security, observability, and reusability across teams.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, conduct design and code reviews, and solve complex cross-domain engineering challenges.
- Implement automation across development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and operational workflows.
- Use production telemetry and operational analysis to improve architecture, code, processes, and platform reliability.
- Support release readiness, on-call rotations, incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor senior engineers, develop technical talent, and promote reusable frameworks, documentation, and engineering best practices.
- Drive adoption of cloud-native development, event-driven architecture, secure integration patterns, and AI-enabled engineering workflows.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of relevant experience with a bachelor’s degree, 7 years with an advanced degree, 4 years with a PhD, or 13 years of relevant experience without the stated degree paths.
- Preferred qualifications include 12+ years with a bachelor’s degree, 8–10 years with an advanced degree, or 6+ years with a PhD.
- 15+ years of progressive technical leadership experience and a record of organization-wide technical impact.
- Deep expertise designing and scaling mission-critical distributed systems and solving complex problems across technical domains.
- Expert proficiency in modern programming languages, system design, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and distributed architecture.
- Deep experience with event-driven systems, Kafka, high-throughput data processing, payment processing, and transaction lifecycles.
- Experience with OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, encryption, IAM, SFTP, batch processing, and AI/ML production systems.
- Knowledge of payment capture, event enrichment, event correlation, transaction matching, retry mechanisms, dead-letter queues, event replay, and exactly-once processing.
- Experience with Avro, Protobuf, JSON, PCI-DSS, SOX, financial-services compliance, and payment network protocols.
- Recognized expertise through publications, speaking engagements, or patents and experience influencing executive technical strategy.
Benefits
- Estimated US salary range is $174,400.00 to $279,100.00 USD per year, with potential bonus and equity eligibility.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, life insurance, paid time off, and a wellness program.
- At least three days per week in the office, with specific expectations confirmed by the hiring manager.
- The role requires 5–10% travel and work hours that vary according to department needs.
- The position includes on-call rotations and is performed in an office setting.
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About Visa
Visa builds and operates a global digital payments network that connects consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments. It earns fees for processing card transactions and offering risk, data, and value‑added services through VisaNet and products like tokenization and tap‑to‑pay. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Visa is a public company (NYSE: V) serving clients in more than 200 countries and territories.