Associate Frontend 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 Design Engineering is looking for an Associate Design Engineer to join our team. We believe that great design has the ability to engage and inspire users and we strive to rethink and redefine how users interact with our applications and products. All of our team members are strategic thinkers and conceptual problem solvers who make every design decision an informed one. We value hard work, accountability and collaboration and look for proven skills over big egos. Our team excels in working together and recognizing individual strengths and values each contributor as a key factor in successfully delivering a project. If you understand “Yes, and...” over No this is the team for you.

In this role, you will work closely with UX designers, software engineers and product owners to build pixel perfect layouts, user interface components, and single page applications for a variety of websites and applications. You will work on a very agile team and be expected to context shift quickly between projects.

Role responsibilities include:

• Build engaging, usable, and accessible UI applications/components/code libraries for web - in the form of HTML/CSS/JavaScript and technical notes

• Analyze existing software for Usability and Accessibility issues and provide recommendations for improvement

• Work with a diverse team of product owners, UX designers, and developers in a fast-paced environment, with quick iterative cycles

• Keep up to date with the latest trends in web engineering and introduce them into projects when appropriate

• Evangelizing UI/UX front-end best practices and Accessibility for web

• Fielding inquiries and requests for support from stakeholders

• Work with Visa UX leadership team to attract, build, and maintain an engaged team of UX professionals across the globe

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.

Relocation assistance is not provided for this role.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
Minimum of 6 months of work experience or a bachelor’s degree

Preferred Qualifications
2 or more years of work experience
Bachelor’s Degree in Design, CS, MIS, UX or equivalent experience
Experience working on single page applications
HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript (Required)
Experience with modern JavaScript UI frameworks such as Angular and/or React
Experience implementing pixel perfect layouts and UI components using Angular or React
Experience building Single Page Applications that consume REST services
Experience with one server-side web application framework and language like NodeJS, etc.
Understanding of UX and the design techniques and principals involved in the production of conceptual prototypes, wireframes, and HTML Prototypes
Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills (Required)
Ability to work independently and manage one’s time (Required)
Web Standards and Accessibility Best Practices (Required)
Ability to analyze written requirements and visually conceptualize the user interface and application flows (Required)
Responsive Design Principles (Required)
Knowledge of Figma
Experience consuming machine learning models like OpenAI API is a plus
Experience with Python is a plus

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 consider