Sr. SW 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

This position is an individual contributor role on the Issuer Processing Platform Development Team. The successful candidate will be part of a team to design and develop REST based APIs and perform unit and integration testing on newly developed components. Candidate will assist with troubleshooting and resolving defects during the software development life cycle. Candidate will interface directly with staff members of Development, Product Management, Project Management, and Quality Assurance.

As a key member of the development team, the candidate should be comfortable with driving technical ideas and communicating clearly with technical as well as non-technical audiences.

Specific Responsibilities include:

• Gather and analyze requirements from product owners

• Design and develop highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems using Java, J2EE and open source technologies

• Understand and adhere to SOA principles utilizing a REST based foundation

• Develop, document and implement new functionality, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software

• Develop unit-tests and oversee execution

• Create documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance

• Build and maintain relationships with global and virtual teams on software development or support issues

• Work as part of a development team and establish close working relationships with stakeholders, quality assurance, architects, as well as management

• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes

• Prepare design documents, evaluate and recommend solutions to meet user requirements, define and implement solution

Essential Functions

• Design and develop API based applications using Java, utilizing spring framework.

• Design, develop, document and implement new functionality, as well as build enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software.

• Develop TDD/BDD unit-tests and oversee execution.

• Build and maintain relationships with global and virtual teams on software development or support issues.

• Engage with Quality Assurance team members on defect triage and resolution.

• Work as part of a development team and establish close working relationships with stake holders, quality  assurance, architects, management and peers in engineering.

• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes.

• Prepare design documents, evaluate and recommend solutions to meet user requirements, define and implement solutions.

• Participate in the Agile process including stand-up meetings, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives.

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
•2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
•3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
•Familiarity with Linux operating system administration
•Some experience designing and developing Java and J2EE applications
•Knowledgeable of common developer tool sets such as Java, XML, JSON,
REST, Spring etc.
•Ability to develop code that follows established coding guidelines.
•Ability to develop test cases for the code written or based on requirements.
•Service excellence and innovation, create opportunities, consistently think and
act 'ahead of the curve.'
•Quick learner, self-starter, detailed and thorough.
•Working knowledge NoSQL DB considered a plus
•Ability to think analytically and problem solving skills
•Good oral and written c