Lead SW Engineer - Android, Flutter and iOS

We are looking for dedicated, 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 innovative 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:

Contributes to the product roadmap by prioritizing mobile development feedback and proposing solutions to improve mobile applications or features, and reviews product specifications to provide feedback with anticipation of current and future needs. Leads conversations to communicate feature specifications to external partners.

Leads collaborations with UX and product management teams to guide and recommend product requirements in an agile manner.

Uses technical subject matter expertise across methodologies and products to suggest new application features for native (eg iOS and Android) operating systems and hybrid platforms (eg flutter) following best development practices.

Ensures adherence to standard mobile device and operating system security practices across products, according to mobile compliance standards (eg accessibility, data security, device interoperability).

Uses technical subject matter expertise to optimize applications to support device-specific sensors (proximity, camera, etc), while supporting the user base, and making significant contributions to the overall architecture of mobile payment applications.

The Skills You Bring:

Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and covets challenging projects on a global scale

Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries with scalable solutions using a variety of software languages

Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (eg Java, C#, C++)

Builder: Experience building and deploying modern web applications with quality and scalability

Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc

Partnership: Collaboration experience 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.

Basic Qualifications

10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
The ability to assist senior colleagues in defining architectural diagrams for mobile applications, based on customer requirements analysis. This includes the ability to use application management software/tools to investigate issues, collect performance statistics, create reports, and use the mobile operating system emulator to perform ad hoc testing on recently developed applications. This also includes the ability to select appropriate platforms and tools to conduct programming and coding processes and work with all basic functions and features of a development toolkit.

The ability to develop or adapt software for a specific mobile operating system by demonstrating knowledge of basic functions, facilities, and utilities of a mobile platform. This includes knowledge of available interfaces to other devices, common problems and considerations for mobile software, and configuration parameters that impact performance of components or the overall system.
The ability to apply tools and techniques associated with a specific agile development methodology and rapid prototype development, explain its checkpoints and deliverables, and interpret metrics used to measure its effectiveness. This also includes the ability to identify projects suitable for agile development.
The ability to design processes for object-oriented application development. This includes updating object-oriented infrastructure and gathering and interpreting object models and relationships (e.g., conceptual and relational data models). This also includes the ability to compare traditional development and Object-Oriented Data Model (OODM), provide insight into techniques for reviewing and improving uses of OODM, and coach others on the use of messaging protocols.