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.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity: 

We are looking for talented, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale.  As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a cross-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of cutting-edge payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions. 

The Work itself: 

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability 

• Collaborate cross-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings 

• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, value added service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads 

• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions 

• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology 

• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities 

 Essential Functions: 

• Asks clarifying questions about requirements, documents requirements, and communicates them to the team for a component.

• Works under close guidance to implement basic enhancements and modifications to existing software that complies with design specifications and meets security best practices.

• Learns about automations that improve effectiveness and efficiencies of systems and tools.

• Engages with team members to receive feedback on code.

• Participates in code review processes for self-development, gathers feedback, and learns about coding standards and the team's features.

• Follows instructions from manager to implement improvements to code, processes, and designs with and understands customer/business objectives.

• Uses appropriate techniques and executes test plans to identify and resolve defects within one or more feature areas.

• Contribute to the implementation of best-fit automation framework and corresponding tests. Write utilities/automation tools using Java.

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) 

• 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

Basic Qualifications
 Bachelors degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
 2 or more years of work experience
 Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.
 Knowledge of and ability to develop back-end (e.g. Core Java, JavaScript) code in support of package and product development. This includes the extension of capabilities of packages and products.
 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.
 Knowledge of and the ability to use database software (e.g., applications, web-based applications, information systems) to maintain, modify, and output data.
 Knowledge of systems integration process in which separately produced components or subsystems are combined and problems in their interactions are addressed.
 Knowledge of data structures, which consist of data organization, management, and storage formats that enable efficient access and modifications. This includes a collection of data values, the relationships among them, and the functions or operations that can be applied to the data.
 Knowledge of JavaScript and front-end technologies/frameworks like Angular or ReactJS is desirable.
 Knowledge of with Agile methodologies and iterative software development lifecycle principles.
 Knowledge of using Jira and confluence.
 Proficient in the use of an IDE – IntelliJ preferred.

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.