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Chief Software Engineer (Hybrid/Onsite)

Visa
Foster City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Feb 2025
💰 $296,700/yr($204,500/yr$296,700/yr)

About the role

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 PPD team is on the forefront of Visa’s innovation, responsible for building digital platforms such as Visa Token Services and Visa Click to Pay. This team is also responsible for setting standards in the payment industry level (EMVCo and W3C) for digital commerce. Platform product team is responsible for developing products like Visa Click to Pay and Token products, collaborate with cross functional teams including, but not limited to, Product, Technology, Commercialization, UX Design/Research, and different Visa Regional teams to build great products at scale and drive adoption.

Visa Click to Pay is built using the latest e-commerce industry specifications (EMV Secure Remote Commerce), that enables a simple, faster and more secure e-commerce checkout experience for Visa cardholders. With Visa Click to Pay, we are transforming the online checkout experience by providing a secure checkout experience online, removing the need to enter your 16-digit primary account numbers, look up passwords, or fill out long forms to make a purchase.

Essential Functions

Want to build the future online checkout experience for Visa cardholders around the world?

Imagine being part of an agile team where your ideas transform the online checkout experience for millions of Visa cardholders globally. Visa Click to Pay team is looking for Chief Software Engineer to join our diverse team, to build new product capabilities and enhancing existing ones. Our platform capabilities will be used by merchants, PSP’s and partners to enable integrated Click to Pay checkout experience in their Guest Checkout flows.

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.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to the Click to Pay Engineering team.

  • Develop and implement technical strategies to enhance the Click to Pay checkout experience.

  • Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of the Click to Pay systems and infrastructure.

  • Ensure the security, scalability, and reliability of our checkout technology solutions.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, operations, and customer support, to deliver high-quality checkout products and services.

  • Drive innovation and stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies.

  • Mentor and develop engineering talent within the organization.

  • Lead high-response teams to manage and resolve incidents promptly.

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

12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of
  • experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with
  • 9+ years of experience
  • 18 or more years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or with an Advanced
  • Degree.
  • Led and delivered complex projects where complexity is a function of a
  • combination of these factors – domain knowledge, distributed architecture,
  • technical stack, influencing and collaborating with multiple technology
  • partners and business partners

  • Extensive experience on architecture, design of large-scale platforms and
  • application

  • Previous experience in back-end development with Java or PHP.
  • Strong knowledge of HTML/CSS, ES6 (variables and scoping, array methods),<

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