Staff Software Engineer

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Visa has a great toolbox of leading technologies including CyberSource and Authorize.Net. Together, we are building leading edge full-service Payment Management solutions combining global payment processing, fraud management and payment security systems.

We are looking for talented, technical, proactive, energetic, and passionate engineers who embrace challenges and are proven problem solvers.  As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a part of multiple teams tasked with projects ranging from building full stack development of REST Service APIs, Back-end Batching applications, and Web Front-End User Interfaces that are highly functional, secure, scalable, and robust. You will learn the full project lifecycle from start (gathering requirements) to finish (release into production). you will get excellent ecommerce experience that will help you throughout your career.

You will be working with colleagues who will help, support and challenge you every day. Unit testing, code reviewing, and regular check-ins for continuous integration is just part of your DNA. We are an Agile Scrum development shop with 2 week iterations. Teams consist of a Dev Manager, QA Manager, developers, QA engineers, scrum master, and product owner with local Configuration Management and Database Engineering support.

Essential Functions:

We expect our engineers to do much more than just writing code. They will:

• Write optimized, secure and scalable code

• Partner closely with multi-functional teams to produce an application that flows seamlessly and works intuitively with our merchants

• Come up with creative solutions to solve problems

• Be comfortable in leading communication with non-technical teams

• Work with architecture team on research & analyses of newer technologies for the next generation of Payment Services

• Help our client to achieve their real goals by understanding the requirements and how it would help them in their business

• Share knowledge with others and mentor junior team members to guide them in improving code quality

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s 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

• Strong knowledge in at least one of the object oriented languages like Java, C#, C++, etc.

• Good understanding of Object Oriented Concepts, Service Oriented Architectures, Distributed Systems Design Concepts and Computer Science fundamentals

• Expert knowledge in one of the server-side web application framework and language like Java/Spring, JS/Node, C#/.Net MVC or .NET Web API

• Experience in designing and building highly scalable RESTful APIs

• React / Redux and React UI experience is required.

• Expert knowledge of Authentication and Authorization standards like OAuth, SAML

• Experience in relational Databases like SQL Server, data modeling, design, creating highly performant stored procedures

• Proficient understanding of OWASP security principles

• Experience in working with CICD pipelines

• HTML5, SASS/CSS, and JavaScript 

• Experience with modern JavaScript UI frameworks such as React, Angular JS

• Experience building responsive Single Page Applications that consume REST services 

• Familiar with browser(s) architecture, rendering process, sandbox architecture

• Understanding of UX and the design techniques and principals involved in the production of conceptual prototypes, wireframes, and HTML Prototypes

• Familiarity with Github

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote