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

Visa’s Payments Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a Software engineer with application design and development experience who will take ownership and/or lead the engineering responsibility for multiple components in a project. You are a great teammate, making sure that everyone on your team feels valued and is excited to work with you. Location, time pressure, distractions, none of it matters: no matter the environment, you know you can code and build amazing, high-performing, and bug-free products.

No matter the challenge, you know you can find a solution and encourage others to think the same. You recognize when to ask for help and when to collaborate with others, working across departments and influencing in areas beyond immediate control. Above all, you are someone who takes initiative and thinks like an owner - you've defined your everywhere and lead others to find theirs all while launching Visa ahead of the game.

The Work itself:

• Collaborates with stakeholders on product requirements, manages project timelines, translates requirements into designs, understands team solution interdependencies, and identifies and communicates risks.
• Designs product components as requested by senior engineers, leads design reviews, validates design alignment with requirements, and ensures non-functional requirements are met.
• Participates in project estimation, reviews product estimation considering delivery cost, escalates potential delays, and collaborates with cross-functional teams in solution delivery.
• Leads and mentors in creating reusable code, applies metrics for code quality, ensures code security, uses debugging tools, identifies automation opportunities, leads code reviews, applies best practices in code review, and handles complex pull requests requiring technical knowledge.
• Creates complex test plans to identify and resolve defects, prioritizes necessary tests, identifies test gaps and risks, proactively identifies and contains software defects, and summarizes findings from testing teams to share with stakeholders.
• Leverages advanced data analysis to identify patterns and defects, responds to incidents during on-call rotations including troubleshooting and deploying fixes, escalates resolution of complex issues, and assists in identifying preventative solutions and providing incident response guidance, always considering the user experience.
• Builds and enhances developer tools to support code creation and maintenance, identifies useful tools for product creation, seeks new knowledge on trends and technical solutions to improve product performance, and recommends resources to other engineers.
  
  

Essential Functions

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 Java development language
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams
  
  

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 or more years of work experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline
• 5+ Years of hands on software product development experience with ability to come up with solution and implement it independently
• Experience in Java language, Spring, Hibernate, Containers, Microservices, Docker, Spark, Design patterns & Kubernetes
• Experience in code development using Eclipse/MyEclipse, JetBrains IntelliJ or any major Java ID
• Experience in API Development using SOAP or REST, JSON and XML
• Experience with GIT/Stash, Maven and Jenkins
• Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis
• A go-getter who is not overwhelmed by new technology, tight timelines, or parallel projects
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and flexible to work with distributed global teams and willing to support clients globally
• Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and timeliness of deliverables
• Ability to deliver on multiple projects and manage priorities based on changing directions
• Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and presentation skills, and proven ability to influence and communicate effectively
• Strong practitioner of Visa's Leadership principles
  
  

Desired Experience

• Experience in payments tech / banking system software
  
  

Think you have what it takes?

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you we'd love to hear from you!

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.