Staff Data Engineer (7-10 years, Java, Spring, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka)

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

• Strong foundation in the analysis, design, development, and implementation of various initiatives, with end-to-end ownership 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.

• 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.

• Capability to work in UI stack using advance Java Script frameworks like AngularJS, Backbone etc is preferable.

• Experience developing back-end applications including multi-process and multi-threaded architectures.

• Experience in writing quality and self-validating code using unit tests, or following TDD.

• 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.

• Product development experience is must.

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications :
• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications :
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or relevant field required.
• 6+ 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
• Must have hands on experience in Core Java, J2EE technologies, Microservices, Spring, Hibernate, REST APIs.
. Must have Application Development experience in Java Spring Boot, Hadoop, Scala, Spark, Kafka

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.