Staff SW Engineer – Summer Visa Internships Highlands Ranch

Position Title: Staff SW Engineer

Company: Visa Inc.

Location: Highlands Ranch, CO, USA

Job Description:

The successful candidate will be working in the Loyalty and Marketing Services Development team which is part of the Data Products Development organization.  This is a full stack developer for a self-motivated individual with excellent software engineering skills and expertise in Big Data technologies and Java/J2EE. The candidate will be extensively involved in hands-on activities including POCs, design, documentation, development, and testing.  The candidate should be a motivated self-starter and quick learner.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the analysis, design, development and implementation of various initiatives, with end to end ownership to deliver the business functionalities.
• Design, develop and maintain mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance.
• Develop high quality code, participate in code reviews and mentor junior developers to ensure the deliveries on time.
• Have a passion for delivering zero defect code and be responsible for ensuring the team’s deliverables meet or exceed the prescribed defect SLA.
• Coordinate and participate in Continuous Integration activities, automation frameworks for testing and deployments etc. in addition to contributing to core product code.
• Interact with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high quality products and services that meet business requirements and expectations while applying the latest available tools and technology.
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, and features in business terms.
• Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or relevant field required.
• 6+ years of software design, architecture, and development experience.
• Strong foundation in computer science, with excellent competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design, optimized for building highly distributed and parallelized systems
• Strong hands on experience in Core Java, J2EE technologies, Microservices, Spring, Hibernate, REST APIs.
• Strong in Core Java development concepts and design patterns. Good design and coding skills in Java/J2ee, Web Services, Spring, Hibernate, Soap/Rest APIs.
• Experience with Big Data ecosystem like Hadoop, Spark, Map Reduce, H-Base, MongoDB, Yarn, Kafka or equivalent is a preferable.
• Capability to work in UI stack using advance Java Script frameworks like AngularJS, Backbone etc is preferable.
• Experience developing back-end applications including multi-process and multi-threaded architectures.
• Experience in writing quality and self-validating code using unit tests, or following TDD.
• Capable to leverage DevOps techniques and practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test Automation, Build Automation and Test Driven Development to enable the rapid delivery of working code utilizing tools like Jenkins, Maven, Chef, Git and Docker.
• Experience in Agile development using any of the methodologies like SCRUM is a big plus.
• Product development experience is Must