Senior Software Engineer

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

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.

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.   

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a senior engineer with application design and development experience who will take ownership and/or lead the engineering responsibility for multiple components in a project. You are a great teammate, making sure that everyone on your team feels valued and is excited to work with you. Location, time pressure, distractions, none of it matters: no matter the environment, you know you can code and build amazing, high-performing, and bug-free products.

No matter the challenge, you know you can find a solution and encourage others to think the same. You recognize when to ask for help and when to collaborate with others, working across departments and influencing in areas beyond immediate control. Above all, you are someone who takes initiative and thinks like an owner - you've defined your everywhere and lead others to find theirs all while launching Visa ahead of the game.

The Work itself:

• Collaborates with stakeholders on product requirements, mentors junior engineers, manages project timelines, translates requirements into designs, understands team solution interdependencies, and identifies and communicates risks.
• Designs product components as requested by senior engineers, leads design reviews, mentors juniors, validates design alignment with requirements, and ensures non-functional requirements are met.
• Participates in project estimation, reviews product estimation considering delivery cost, escalates potential delays, and collaborates with cross-functional teams in solution delivery.
• Leads and mentors in creating reusable code, applies metrics for code quality, ensures code security, uses debugging tools, identifies automation opportunities, leads code reviews, applies best practices in code review, and handles complex pull requests requiring technical knowledge.
• Creates complex test plans to identify and resolve defects, prioritizes necessary tests, identifies test gaps and risks, proactively identifies and contains software defects, and summarizes findings from testing teams to share with stakeholders.
• Leverages advanced data analysis to identify patterns and defects, responds to incidents during on-call rotations including troubleshooting and deploying fixes, escalates resolution of complex issues, and assists in identifying preventative solutions and providing incident response guidance, always considering the user experience.
• Builds and enhances developer tools to support code creation and maintenance, identifies useful tools for product creation, seeks new knowledge on trends and technical solutions to improve product performance, and recommends resources to other engineers.

Essential Functions

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, “hacking” beyond traditional solutions
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, Javascript/Typescript, Python)
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

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

Preferred Qualifications

Front-End: Knowledge of and ability to develop front-end code (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript) in support of product development. This includes the extension of capabilities of solutions or products. 
User Interface Design: Knowledge of user interface design, which is the interaction where users and computers interact. This includes an understanding of how to provide an optimal industrial design experience through User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) Design. 
Back-end: Knowledge of and ability to develop back-end (e.g., Javascript for NodeJS, Python, Java) code in support of solution and product development. This includes the extension of capabilities of solutions and products. 
API (Application Program Interfaces) Generation: The ability to develop and utilize Application Program Interfaces (APIs), a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications that specify how software components should interact and are used when programming graphical user interface (GUI) components. An API may be for a web-based system, operating system, database system, computer hardware, or software library. 
Be equally passionate about technology and solving large-scale complex business problems.
Have a proven-track record within a technical lead role to produce innovative and simple solutions to complex problems.
Be an established self-starter who possesses a relentless drive to initiate change, raise the technical bar and deliver results.
Have expert knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle.
Be comfortable challenging the norm and always on the lookout for new technologies and work with fellow technologists to implement these into the work stream.
Be equally content prototyping and tinkering with new applications as well operating within the rigour of making solutions production-ready.
Be a passionate advocate for nurturing talent within Visa through technical coaching and mentoring.
Have excellent interpersonal skills and enjoy working in a highly iterative, agile and collaborative team environment

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.