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Visa Usa Inc Chief Software Engineer in Bellevue, Washington
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 As the Chief Software Engineer on the core Payment Processing development team within the Acceptance Solutions organization, you will provide technical leadership, foster innovation, set engineering excellence standards, and collaborate with business teams to develop cutting-edge products and solutions. You will offer strategic architectural guidance to engineering teams while overseeing the execution of large and complex global initiatives. Your responsibilities include designing and coding systems that influence 40% of the global population, as well as shaping Visa's internal standards for scalability, security, and reliability. Additionally, you will work with various stakeholders and internal teams to understand project dependencies and delivery vision, while ensuring engineering excellence and maintaining five nines availability. Essential Functions: Architect, design, and code highly scalable and reliable transaction processing systems. Define technical strategy for the payment processing platform that aligns with the product vision and accelerates innovation and time to market. Provide technology leadership and motivate a high performing team of senior engineers to set clear priorities to achieve product/technology goals and KPIs. Actively contribute to critical projects by developing key modules, core frameworks and automation tools. Leverage AI/ML technologies in bringing productivity across the SDLC phases and develop innovative business solutions and products. Establish engineering best practices for application development, testing, deployment and monitoring. Collaborate with security, privacy, and governance teams to ensure that the products developed comply with relevant policies, standards, and regulations. Collaborate with business partners to convert product requirements into high quality solutions that comply with all non-functional requirements, including security, scalability, availability, and reliability. Effectively communicate technical strategy and engineering solutions to leadership and business stakeholders Coach/Mentor others through sessions such as brown bags and tech talks. Adhere to Visa's Leadership Principles by promoting collaboration, encouraging constructive debate, and executing with excellence. 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: 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience. Preferred Qualifications: 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience Extensive experience in designing, developing, and deploying scalable and secure distributed applications. Software engineering experience in both on-p