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
About Visa: Visa is a global leader in payment technology, connecting consumers, businesses, financial institutions, and governments to fast, secure, and reliable electronic payments.
Team Overview:
Join our dynamic Developer Experience organization under Operations and Infrastructure. Our team is responsible for handling developer tools and the developer platform, ensuring a seamless experience for developers. We develop, maintain, and support business-critical applications that drive Visa's daily operations for developers. Currently, we are on a multi-year journey to modernize our business systems by adopting open software technologies and moving towards cloud.
Role Overview: We are seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our “Strategic Initiatives” team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in building the next-generation global payment network, contributing to Visa's transformation.
Primary Responsibilities:
System Design and Development:
- Design, document, and implement new systems, enhancements, and modifications to existing software, ensuring alignment with design specifications, security standards, and Java best practices.
- Develop highly scalable, fault-tolerant web-based applications.
Stakeholder Interaction:
- Engage with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality products and services that meet business requirements using the latest tools and technologies.
- Present technical solutions, capabilities, and considerations in business terms.
Code Quality and Delivery:
- Deliver zero-defect code and ensure the team's deliverables meet or exceed business expectations.
- Contribute to and evolve a highly efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools.
Innovation and Best Practices:
- Identify opportunities for product innovation and improvements to best practices, standards, and processes.
Mentorship and Collaboration:
- Mentor junior developers to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality code.
- Collaborate with Technical Product Managers to break down solutions into smaller achievable tasks.
Documentation and Support:
- Develop backend databases and queries, create and consume APIs, and handle front-end UI development.
- Manage backend operations and batch jobs to maintain data integrity.
- Support test engineers and operations teams in troubleshooting, defect research, and issue root cause analysis.
This is a hybrid position, allowing for a flexible work environment. Employees are expected to work from the office 2-3 days a week, with a general guideline of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience
Preferred Qualifications
• You have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of Software Development Experience or a Masters with 3+ years of Software Development Experience.
• You are a Full stack developer, and you have experience with REST APIs, JSON, Microservices.
• Solid Experience with back-end technologies such as Golang, Python - Flask, Java frameworks like Spring , Spring Boot.
• Rich Front-End development experience with Angular/React JS, Node.JS, and Material Design is desirable. Working experience with Kafka, Redis, or NoSQL datastores is a plus.
• Hands on experience with database technologies like PostgreSQL, MySQL.
• Hands on experience with kafka or other MQ technologies.
• You have strong experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar.
• Strong in understanding and writing simple and complex SQL.
• Strong in OOP concepts and design patterns.
• Strong oral and written communications skills are required.
• Working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release.
• Strong interpersonal and analytical skills.
• Exceptional troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Ability to multi task and handle multiple competing priorities with minimal direction from management.
• Must work well within a team in a fast-paced high performance organization.
• We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand the requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions.
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.
Top Skills
What We Do
At Visa, we are driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. As our products and technology have evolved with the world, Visa remains ubiquitous, reaching new customers in new and often invisible ways. We are at the center of this digital revolution with a network that connects people with over 80 million businesses all over the world. And Visa’s network is expanding, accelerating our growth. Our resilient business model, with its strong track record of success, will provide you with amazing opportunities to grow in your career, as well.
We are looking for people like YOU. Come join a people-centric company where you can invest in your career.
For more information, visit visa.com/about, visacorporate.tumblr.com and @VisaNews on Twitter.
Why Work With Us
Our employees are our company. Creating an inclusive and diverse workplace has been our key priority. With our purpose to “uplift everyone, everywhere” as our guide, we’re building an environment where diverse backgrounds and perspectives are celebrated and drive success inside our company and out in our communities.
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