Staff 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

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 dedicated, curious, and energetic 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 innovative payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions. 

As a part of the Risk and Identity Solutions (RaIS) team, you will be responsible for developing critical risk and fraud prevention applications and services. Your work will involve:

• Idea Generation & Architecture: Contribute to the brainstorming, design, and architecture of new solutions.
• Development & Testing: Develop and test applications using bleeding-edge AI tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other homegrown solutions.
• Innovation & Impact: Design new software solutions or refactor existing ones to enhance maintainability, all while making a significant impact on our products and services.
• Application Performance: Passion for optimizing the performance of complex software systems.

What We Offer:

• Innovative Environment: Work with cutting-edge AI tools and technologies.
• Professional Growth: Opportunities to learn and grow in a fast-paced industry.
• Impactful Work: Play a key role in preventing fraud and enhancing security for Visa and its clients.
• Hybrid Work Model: This position offers a flexible hybrid work environment. Employees can alternate time between remote and office work. Typically, you'll be expected to work from the office 3 days a week, with the goal of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

 The Work itself: 

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability 
• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings 
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads 
• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions 
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology 
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Lead product development with cross-functional teams, including engineering leads, engineers, product managers, architects, and client support teams, throughout the entire development cycle.
• Develop robust and scalable architectural solutions, considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem.
• Drive awareness of performance-related techniques and issues within the development team to ensure optimal product performance.
• Provide domain expertise for user documentation and implement standard processes to ensure consistency and clarity.
• Deliver new product features end-to-end, playing a significant role in their development and ensuring they meet business requirements.
• Apply sound engineering practices consistently to improve business outcomes and enhance product quality.
• Mentor team members, conduct project-level design reviews, and guide the t