Staff SW Engineer

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:

• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
• Work with Product owners, architects and other relevant stakeholders to gather and refine requirements for one or more products, taking in to account the existing tools and solutions across departments.
• Translates functional requirements into system designs for one or more components and communicates how the components will interact.
• Demonstrates understanding of non-functional requirements (NFR) and their impact on the system. Leads junior engineers in understanding requirements.
• Design, Code, test, document and implement new applications & as well as existing programs.
• Develop code that complies with design specifications and meets security and coding best practices.
• Work independently and provide guidance to junior developers.
• Work with team members on technical software development issues, problem analysis and resolution.
• Participate in design and code review sessions as appropriate - to ensure the quality of work delivered by teammates is in accordance with development standards.
• Write automation scripts to functionally automate the testing.
• Learn and adopt technologies, like generative AI, that provide developer productivity improvements.
• Engages with product engineering teams and product owners during code/design reviews, regular meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles.
• Leverages advanced knowledge of systems/platforms and telemetry analyses to propose isolated improvements in code, processes, and designs to deliver on customer/business objectives more effectively.

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 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.