Staff Data Engineer - Batch Platform AI Team

Company Description

Visa is a global leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payment transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governmental entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you become part of a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is a priority, your identity is valued, and the work you do is significant. We believe that economies that include everyone, everywhere, uplift everyone, everywhere. Your work will directly impact billions of people globally – aiding in unlocking financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Payments has become a highly active field in recent years, generating a strong demand for innovation. This is set to be a thrilling arena for the next 5 to 10 years. Not only is VISA a pioneer in the payment industry, but it is also rapidly transitioning into a technology company that is cultivating an environment for applying cutting-edge technology to solve thrilling problems in this area. For a payment system to operate efficiently, risk techniques, performance, and scalability are crucial. These techniques and systems can benefit from big data, data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, and many other advanced technologies, all of which Visa has. If you aspire to be in the exhilarating payment space, learn quickly, and make significant impacts, Artificial Intelligence As Services(AIaS) within Data & AI group @ VISA is an ideal place for you!

This position is for a Staff Data Engineer with solid development experience who will work on developing new capabilities for the AI Platform while improving our code base and development processes. In this role, you are primarily a skillful developer who can work in a dynamic environment as a member of Agile Scrum teams. Your robust technical leadership, problem-solving skills, coding, testing, and debugging abilities is just the beginning. You must be dedicated to filling the product backlog and delivering production-ready code. You must be ready to go beyond the routine and be willing to do a little bit of everything.

You will be an integral part of the development team, sometimes investigating new requirements and designing at times, and sometimes refactoring existing functionality for performance and maintainability. Always working on ways to enhance our efficiency and deliver better solutions to our customers. This role is for a self-organized individual with experience in web application and web service development. The candidate will perform hands-on tasks, including design, documentation, development, and testing of new features. The candidate must be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on the team's needs.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate between working remotely and from the office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (decided by leadership/site), with the general guideline of being in the office 50% or more of the time depending on business requirements.

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:

• Expertise in one or all of the following: Python, Spark or Hadoop
• Exposure to leading-edge areas such as Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Stream Computing, MLOps.
• Experience with web service standards and related patterns (REST, gRPC)
• Experience in developing large-scale, enterprise-class distributed systems or subsystems that require high availability, low-latency, and strict data consistency
• Experience implementing solutions for low-latency, distributed services using open standard technologies.
• Experience with Distributed caching technologies like Redis
• Experience in developing proper metrics instrumentation in software components to help facilitate real-time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.

Additional Information

Work Hours: Depend on the needs of the department.

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

Mental/Physical Requirements: This role will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the employee 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 regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 126,000.00 to 163,800.00 USD, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. 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.