Backend Technical Lead

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government 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 join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

**Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.**

**Job Description**:
What we do

Member of the Visa family since its acquisition in November 2020, YellowPepper proven platform, Yepex, enables issuers to easily launch card and account agnostic real-time payments solutions like P2P, P2M, and Cross-Border, among others, while providing value added services such as tokenization, identity validation and risk tools to deliver a complete transaction and service offering. The company is creating the Next Generation Payment Ecosystem to help financial institutions, retailers, and their customers to transact digitally, with security, anytime and anywhere. Operating in 11 countries, the Miami based global company currently serves 50 clients and 6 million monthly active users.

Our Vision

Create the foundation of the Digital Economy to enable the best and most secure everyday life experience.

Our Mission

To create the next generation Payment Ecosystem to simplify people’s lives

**What we are looking for**

**Responsibilities**:
End to end responsibility for projects of increasing complexity that encompass more than their own development.

Be independent with little oversight beyond high level direction, work on complex tasks, and completes them despite roadblocks, including debugging techniques.

Help large groups of engineers deliver complex projects with drama free launches, owning the technical testing and performance planning side of these projects.

Deliver software on time and improve the accuracy of the team estimations.

Understand the business that their code supports, and possess empathy for the users of their software, using this understanding to influence their task prioritization.

Understand the tradeoffs between technical, analytical, and product goals, and strive to create solutions that satisfy all of these goals.

Write consistently high quality code, deliver features to QA that they believe are well baked and bug free, being aware of industry best practices and trends

Be known outside of their core team as a technology leader, working effectively with non tech members of their pillar. Ability to identify problems with requirements and help their team course correct around these issues.

Research and propose new technologies, and have a broad understanding of the entire architecture, as well as a very detailed understanding of their area.

Proactively identify and clean up technical debt before it turns into a long term problem, and encourage and enable their team to do the same.

Identify risks in code, features, and design, and communicate these to the appropriate parties.

Participate in architecture designs providing feedback and also providing designs with guidance from the architecture team, as appropriate

Ability to identify and suggest areas of future work for themselves and others while contributing to the common standards for the team.

Balance leadership and individual contribution by providing extensive mentoring of junior team members while maintaining deep individual contribution.

Seek evidence to support their ideas and start to build cases for these ideas.

**Qualifications**:
Qualifications and Education requirements:
Significant experience leading and mentoring a team

Expert in Java and Enterprise Java technologies and development

Expert in the Spring framework Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Security, etc

Expert in designing and implementing RESTful web services

Experience converting business requirements into technical design documents

Ability to write well designed, testable, efficient code

Knowledge of or working experience with CI/CD pipelines including technologies such as Docker, Jenkins and Concourse

Experience with cloud technologies, such as GCP

Agile, scrum, based delivery practices, test driven development, test automation, and continuous delivery

Solid understanding of object oriented principles

Demonstrated success in building design patterns and software engineering best practices

Experience with Oauth2

Solid understanding of hibernate

Solid understanding of microservices

Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL, and NoSQL