Staff SW Engineer - Cyber Analytics & AI Innovation

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 to hire a Staff SW Engineer to join the Cyber Analytics & AI Innovations team in Visa. You as a Staff SW Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and supporting cutting edge AI innovations in cybersecurity. You should be an engineer at heart, possessing software engineering skills, allowing to lead teams that build some of the most critical and marquee products in the entire company. You will build enterprise-level AI solutions with deep neural networks, large language models, GPUs, and big data platforms.

The Work itself: 

• Design code and systems that influence Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability.

• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for Visa’s technical offerings.

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

• Develop robust and scalable products intended for internal stakeholders.

• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of cybersecurity solutions.

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

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.

• Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance.

• Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, HTML, C++, JavaScript) to write code that fulfills modification requests and technical requirements.

• Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features.

• Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects.

• 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., Go, Python, JavaScript, C#, C++).

• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and applications with quality and scalability based on Linux infrastructure.

• 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.

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

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
 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field. (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
 Programming Languages: Knowledge of and ability to develop front-end code (e.g. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) in support of package and product development. This includes the extension of capabilities of packages and products.
 Web Browser Optimization: The ability to select the 'best available' values of some objective function to improve the functional effectiveness of web browsers.
 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) Design.
 API Generation: The ability to develop and apply 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

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.