SW Engineer (Mainframe & C/C++)

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, dedicated, curious, and highly 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.

• 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 and Real-Time Payments.

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

Essential Functions:

• Drives design options based on the merits of the options and requirements.

• Analyzes, documents, designs, codes, and tests system enhancements and production fixes with other product team members.

• Begins to assist in extending current systems to new products and services or refinements to standards, processes, and systems.

• Addresses relevant solution fixes during rotational, on-call daytime support for problem analysis and resolution under appropriate guidance.

• Follows feedback during design and code review sessions as appropriate to ensure the quality of work delivered is in accordance with development standards.

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., COBOL, C, C++, Java).

• Builder: Experience building and deploying software solution with quality and scalability

• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Gen-AI.

• 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 before joining Visa.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
•Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or related field.

Preferred Qualifications:
•Preferably 1.5 or more years of work experience in Z/OS systems.
•Knowledge in any of these will be an advantage – JCL, VSAM, DB2, Assembler
and REXX.
•Knowledge in Cards and Payments Domain will be an advantage.
•Proficiency in at least one programming language or technology including but
not limited to COBOL, C/C++, Java, Python.
•Excellent problem analysis skills and ability to propose multiple solutions for a
problem and choose the most apt solution.
•Must be able to understand high level design, translate it into code level
technical design and build documentation for the developed code.
•Must have curiosity and creativity, to want to understand customer
requirements and our processes and urge to come up with creative solutions.
•Strong communications skills, specifically, the absence of repeated
grammatical or typographical errors, clear and concise written and spoken
communications that demonstrate professionalism.
•Solid understanding of software engineering concepts and methodologies.
•Document process, designs, test results, and analysis.
•Lead root cause analysis and track defect resolution to completion.
•Review and provide feedback on development code, test designs and test
cases.
•Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented.
•Good team player with willingness to listen and learn from colleagues to foster
a culture of continuous improvement.
•Ability to learn from mistakes and apply lessons to future challenges.

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.