Staff Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant

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 Staff 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.   

Essential Functions:

• Developing, testing, and documenting software programs alongside a collaborative engineering team 
• Designing and implementing test automation frameworks to ensure high-quality software delivery 
• Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to streamline software development and deployment processes 
• Collaborating with product owners/managers to gather and refine requirements, ensuring alignment with existing tools and solutions across departments 
• Breaking down complex systems into manageable and achievable tasks 
• Analyzing business requirements to provide robust, scalable, and resilient solutions 
• Enforcing software best practices, standards, and processes throughout the system development life cycle 
• Participating in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing, and certification of software 
• Performing code reviews to ensure changes meet development requirements; deploying and staging code in development environments 
• Developing database queries, automating query generation, and fixing bugs in existing codebases 
• Producing highly scalable, high-performing applications 
• Participating in daily stand-ups and collaborating with the delivery team to improve productivity using development and quality metrics 
• Working closely with our US-based team to coordinate efforts and maintain effective communication 

**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.

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.

Note: This role does not offer relocation or fully remote opportunities. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, plus 10+ years of related experience, or any combination of education and experience providing an equivalent background
• 5+ years of experience leading software engineering teams and mentoring developers
• Ability to understand complex enterprise level systems, various integration points, decent understanding of all networking layers, good understanding of software development lifecycle and processes
• Strong understanding of DevOps practi