Staff SW Engineer (Front-End)

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 Versatile, 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 multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful 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 multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa 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 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:

• Develop and maintain Verifi’s React-based Verifi-One platform.
• Designing and implementing test automation code to ensure high-quality software delivery.
• Collaborate with back-end developers in the definition, creation, and enhancement of APIs.
• Reviews and asks questions about solution strategies that improve the design and functionality of a payment product feature.
• Ensure a highly responsive and effective end-user experience by meeting or exceeding product performance objectives.
• Consistently produce high-quality code, including modular and reusable components.
• Resolve issues with static code analysis and security scans.
• Troubleshooting and resolve bugs as they come up.
• Participate in all phases of the SDLC to complete deliverables on schedule.
• Independently supports strategies that improve the design and functionality of interface features
• Leads by example and informally mentors others on the use of front-end programming languages to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements.

**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 Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD

•Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum eight (8) years of experience in a directly related field. OR
•Master's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum five (5) years of experience in a directly related field. OR
•Minimum eight (8) years of directly related experience.
•Desire to work with and share new and innovative ideas, constantly expanding your knowledge.
•Experience working on single page applications.
•Strong proficiency in JavaScript, object model, DOM manipulation and event handlers, data structures and algorithms.
•Complete understanding of ReactJS and its main fundamentals like JSX, Virtual DOM, component lifecycle, etc.
•3+ years of experience with ReactJS workflows like Flux, Redux, Create React App, data structure libraries.
•Experience supporting different browsers and how to mitigate browser-compatibility issues.
•Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, JSON web tokens, and web services.
•Strong knowledge of HTML/CSS, ES6 (variables and scoping, array methods), code versioning tools like GIT, SVN, etc., popular frontend development tools, CI/CD tools, DevOps, performance testing frameworks like Mocha, Node + NPM
•Strong debugging skills and experience working with debugging tools.
•Understanding of React test frameworks (e.g. Jest, Enzyme and Jasmine).
•Experience working with UI automation with Cypress, Playwright, multi-browser testing.
•Previous experience in back-end development with Java or PHP.
•Previous work experience working within Agile.
•Knowledge of containerization with Docker.
•Previous experience working in the fin-tech or other highly regulated industry.
•Experience in AI/ML is a plus.

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.