Lead Software Engineer Director level IC

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.
As a Technology Leader in the Risk and Identity Solutions division at Visa, you will be part of our Enterprise Risk Solutions team to help design, enhance and build our transactional Fraud detection engine in an agile development environment. You will take leadership roles working on multiple projects building full stack development of real-time transactional services, RESTful APIs and Container based distributed services that are highly available, secure, scalable, and resilient. You will spearhead development of next generation software based on machine learning and deep learning. We believe in self-managing Agile teams who build products end to end focusing on unit testing, code reviews and continuous integration for excellent code quality. You will see the code written and moved to production within just a few days, to then be used by a huge customer base. You will be driving innovation that makes our products stand apart from our competitors and delight the customer with accelerated time-to-market delivery.
You are a trusted technology advisor and thought leader working with architects, DEV leads, test engineering leads, TPMs, product managers, security architects, and other partners across the organization in ensuring that what we build is secure, scalable, performant, and reliable. Every technology and software that you have touched in the past, you have become an SME at with a deep level of understanding how it worked and are able to incorporate this in the most optimize form.
Lead Programmer and Expert in developing highly available, reliable, and scalable solutions
Ensure security, reliability, performance and cost effectiveness of the Risk platform
Collaborate with the product management, other VISA IT groups and vendors to develop solutions for complex, global business requirements
Evaluate and identify appropriate technology solutions to meet business and technology challenges, guide product development teams through their implementation
Design solutions involving moving existing applications and services to the cloud (public and hybrid).
Create Projects, Features, and Stories for Technology driven projects and initiatives
Lead and build scalable and distributed services that will help power the AI infrastructure for deep learning platforms.
Collaborate with project team members (Product Managers, Architects, Analysts, Software Engineers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure development and implementation of new data driven business solutions.
Be a technical leader on various projects across the platform and be a major contributor and beings hands-on for the entire platform’s architecture.
Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.
12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
Degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems
Experience in Java software development, web applications and services, Spring, technology standards and frameworks
You are a Java expert experienced with REST APIs and container-based technologies. Knowledge / Experience in UI technologies, jQuery/JavaScript standards including ES6, HTML5, CSS3 and CSS4, Redux, Riot.js and React.js, D3 is a plus
Experience in migrating applications to the cloud (AWS, or GCP, or MS Azure) is a plus.
Hands on experience on containers and orchestration platform such as docker, Kubernetes
Knowledge on cloud infrastructure and cost-effective platform such as AWS, AZURE.
Experience in microservices architecture and database shading of a large-scale project.
Experience developing large scale, enterprise class distributed system or subsystems that require high availability, low latency, & strong data consistency computing
You have proven experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the requirements and independently, architect, design and build the solution.
You have the passion to work with people and help mentor juniors.
Passion for Big Data and analytics in general leveraging technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Solr, MapReduce.
You have work and academic experience that will demonstrate proficiency and ease with programming languages, code quality initiatives, scripting languages and operating systems.
Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
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, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.
In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. xrczosw 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.