Sr Staff SW 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

This is a leadership role for the Austin Checkout team. You will be guiding our web, mobile, and Java projects. This portfolio includes Click 2 Pay, regional products, and future services. We are looking for a passionate and self-motivated individual with excellent software engineering skills and expertise in Java, TypeScript, Swift, and Kotlin. The candidate will be involved in coordinating POCs, design, documentation, development, and testing for our program.

Responsibilities

·       Ensure consistent engineering standards across all programs.

·       Design, develop and maintain mission-critical and sophisticated systems, delivering high-availability and performance.

·       Develop high quality code, participate in code reviews, and coordinate with dev leads across programs.

·       Coordinate and participate in Continuous Integration activities, automation frameworks for testing and deployments etc. in addition to contributing to core product code.

·       Interact with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high quality products and services that meet business requirements and expectations while applying the latest available tools and technology.

·       Present technical solutions, capabilities, and features in business terms.

·       Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.

·       Actively evaluate and communicate the trade-offs between short-term and long-term solutions.

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:
• 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• 10 or more years of software design, architecture, and development experience.
• Strong foundation in computer science, with excellent competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design, optimized for building highly distributed and parallelized systems.
• Strong hands on experience in Core Java, J2EE technologies, Microservices, Spring, Hibernate, REST APIs.
• Strong in Core Java development concepts and design patterns. Good design and coding skills in Java/J2ee, Web Services, Spring, Hibernate, Soap/Rest APIs.
• Experience developing back-end services and applications, including micro-services architecture.
• Experience in creating organizational guidelines for self-validating code using unit tests or following TDD.
• Capable to leverage DevOps techniques and practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test Automation, Build Automation and Test Driven. Development to enable the rapid delivery of working code utilizing tools like Jenkins, Maven, Chef, Git and Docker.
• Passion for user experience and knowledge of iOS Application Patterns as per the iOS HIG
• Knowledge of iOS OWASP security practices.
• Experience with TypeScript
• Expertise in ReactJS and Redux
• Expertise in Kotlin based Android development

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