Staff Software Engineer

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Austin, TX
In-Office
125K-181K
Senior level
Fintech • Information Technology • Payments
Join a world leader in payments and technology!
The Role
As a Staff Software Engineer at Visa, you'll design, code, and develop scalable software solutions for payment technologies while collaborating in agile teams. You'll leverage your expertise in various programming languages and frameworks to enhance internal standards and resolve complex challenges.
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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 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.

  • Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance.

  • Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements. 

  • Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.

  • Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.

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

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
•5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2
years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD,
MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work
experience.

Preferred Qualifications
•6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years
of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
•Master's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science,
Information Systems or related field AND minimum three (3) years of
experience in a directly related field. OR
•Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science,
Information Systems or related field AND minimum five (5) years of experience
in a directly related field. OR
•Minimum eight (8) years of directly related experience.
•Good understanding of Object-Oriented Concepts, Service Oriented
Architectures, Distributed Systems Design Concepts and Computer Science
fundamentals
•Knowledge of and ability to develop Full-stack Web Applications using Java,
Spring framework, React, JavaScript code in for product development. This
includes the extension of capabilities of packages and products.
•The ability to develop and utilize Application Program Interfaces (APIs),
RESTful API design, 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.
•Experience with HTML5, SASS/CSS, and JavaScript.
•Experience with modern JavaScript UI frameworks such as React, Redux,
Angular JS.
•Experience building responsive Single Page Applications that consume REST
services.
•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.
•Experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and
Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef,
Sonar, JUnit Ensure proper metrics instrumentation in software components,
to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance
monitoring.
•Working experience with Kafka, Spark, and Hadoop is a plus. Working
experience in React and Vertx is a plus.
•Knowledge of REST APIs, JSON and exposure to container-based technologies.
•Knowledge of Unix/Linux and working in a shell environment.
•Knowledge of CICD - Jenkins Pipeline, Git, JIRA.
•Knowledge of Security – Authentication and Authorization.
•Should have very good understanding in GenAI adoption.
•Software design, development and systems integration.
•Design documentation.

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 124,700.00 to 180,650.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.

Top Skills

Angular
C++
Git
Hadoop
HTML
Java
JavaScript
Jenkins
Kafka
React
Redux
Spark
Spring
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
26,500 Employees
Year Founded: 1958

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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