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

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:

Supports relationship with product owners to gather and refine requirements for one product task, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions within a product.

Begins to develop and design architect solutions, considering integrations with other solutions.

Provides relevant knowledge on the development of user documentation of solutions and follows standard processes in user documentation.

Plays a minor role in the development and delivery of new features within a product. 

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, C#, C++)

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

We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all 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. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
-Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science,
Information Systems or related field OR Minimum three (3) years of directly
related experience.
Preferred Qualifications
-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.
-The ability to select the best available values of some objective function to
improve the functional effectiveness of web browsers.
-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.
-Knowledge of and ability to develop back-end (e.g. Python, Java, C++, PHP)
code in support of package and product development. This includes the
extension of capabilities of packages and products.
-The ability to develop and use 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.

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.