Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.
The Opportunity:
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.
The Responsibilities:
- Proven experience leading teams that have delivered high‑quality large‑scale enterprise‑class applications.
- Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
- You are a Java expert, and you have experience with REST APIs, JSON, and exposure to container‑based technologies.
- Working experience in React and Vertx is a plus.
- Working experience with Kafka, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch is a must.
- Design, implement, and optimize complex search applications using OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including index design, query DSL, aggregations, synonyms, analyzers, and relevance tuning.
- Develop scalable ingestion frameworks that handle high‑throughput, real‑time search indexing.
- Own search performance end‑to‑end: latency improvements, shard planning, cluster optimization, caching strategies, and load testing.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate business search needs into technical solutions (e.g., relevance scoring, ranking models, semantic search).
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex search issues involving distributed systems, cluster health, shards, replication, and indexing failures.
- Implement observability for search systems: monitoring, alerting, dashboards, query profiling, and cluster metrics.
- Should have very good understanding in GenAI technology and built product using any LLM.
- Hands‑on experience with database technologies like MSSQL and Oracle.
- You have strong experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, JUnit.
- Ensure proper metrics instrumentation in software components to help facilitate real‑time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.
- Knowledge of Unix/Linux and working in a shell environment. Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review.
- Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques.
- Curiosity and creativity to understand customer requirements and processes and propose improvements.
- Ability to see and understand the big picture while staying focused on immediate goals.
- Strong work ethic to focus on our goals.
- Experience with Test‑Driven Development methodology.
- Proven experience as a technical leader with ability to understand requirements and independently architect, design, and build the solution.
- Passion for working with people and mentoring junior engineers.
- As an end‑to‑end champion for your products, strong debugging and Unix skills to help support Operations teams.
- Ability to write clean, coherent code following established coding guidelines.
- Strong interpersonal and effective communication skills (both written and verbal).
- Highly driven, resourceful, and results‑oriented.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.