Senior Data Engineer - Risk Authorization - AI Platform Team

Company Description

Visa is a global leader in digital payments, facilitating over 215 billion payment transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government bodies across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world via the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payment network, empowering individuals, businesses, and economies to prosper.

Joining Visa means becoming part of an environment dedicated to purpose and belonging – where your growth is our focus, your identity is respected, and the work you do matters. We believe in inclusive economies that uplift everyone, everywhere. The work you do will directly influence billions of people globally by providing financial access and enabling the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Over the past few years, payments has become an active and exciting field resulting in a strong demand for innovation. The next 5 to 10 years promise to be equally if not more thrilling. Visa is not only a leader in the payment industry but is rapidly transforming into a technology company focused on applying cutting edge technology to solve exciting challenges in this area.

Visa AI as a Service (VAIaS) makes the delivery of AI and decision intelligence more efficient for the ongoing values of businesses. With our composable AI capabilities, privacy-enhancing computation, and cloud-native platforms, VAIaS automates all updates to data, models, and applications. Paired with robust AI governance, VAIaS optimizes the performance, scalability, interpretability, and reliability of AI models and services. If the intersection of payments and AI excites you, coupled with rapid learning and making significant impacts, Visa AI as a Service is the perfect place for you!

The position is for a Senior Engineer with substantial development experience who will concentrate on creating new capabilities for Visa AI as a Service while refining our code base and development processes. As part of this role, you should be a passionate and skilled developer capable of working in a dynamic environment as part of Agile Scrum teams. Your robust technical leadership, problem-solving abilities, coding, testing, and debugging skills are just the beginning. You should be committed to product backlog fulfilment and delivering production-ready code. You should also be prepared to go beyond the mundane and be ready to tackle a bit of everything.

You will be an essential part of the development team, sometimes exploring new requirements and designs and at times revamping existing functionality for performance and maintainability. However, you will always be finding ways to enhance our efficiency and provide better solutions to our end-users. The role is suited for a self-organized individual with an understanding of web application and web service development. The candidate will undertake hands-on tasks including design, documentation, development, and testing of new functionality. The candidate must show flexibility and willingness to switch tasks based on the team's needs.

This position will be based in Austin, TX. If this opportunity excites you, we would love to have a conversation with you, providing more insight into our work culture and environment, and to ascertain if this opportunity is a good fit for both parties.

Essential Functions

• Collaborate with project team members, like Product Managers, Architects, Analysts, Software Engineers, Project Managers, amongst others, to ensure the development and implementation of new data-driven business solutions.
• Lead the development effort End-to-End for timely delivery of high-quality solutions that adhere to requirements, align with the architectural vision, and comply with all relevant standards.
• Your responsibilities will span all phases of solution development, including:
  • Collaborating with senior technical staff and PM to identify, document, plan for contingency, track, and manage risks and issues until they are all resolved.
  • Explaining technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.

This role is hybrid. Hybrid employees can spend time alternating between remote and office work. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office for 2-3 set days in a week (as determined by leadership/the site), with the general guidepost of spending 50% or more time in the office depending on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• Minimum of 2 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or Ph.D.)

Preferred Qualifications:
• Minimum of 3 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Exposure to leading-edge areas such as Machine Learning, Big Data, Distributed Systems, or SRE.
• Experience in one or more of the following: Golang, Java, or C/C++
• Familiarity with web service standards and associated patterns (REST, gRPC)
• Experience in implementing solutions for low-latency, distributed services using open standard technologies.

Additional Information

Work Hours: Depends on the needs of the department.

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

Mental/Physical Requirements: The position will be performed in an office setting. It 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 candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local laws.

Visa will also consider for employment qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

ONLY U.S. APPLICANTS: The estimated salary range for a new hire for this position is 109,000.00 to 139,500.00 USD, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). The salary may vary depending on job-related factors, such as knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Additionally, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa offers a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible, including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and a Wellness Program.