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 Versatile, 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 powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.
What you will do:
- 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
Essential Functions:
- Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
- Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance.
- Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements.
- Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
- Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.
This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice. #LI-Remote
Basic Qualifications:
- 6+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 10+ years of relevant work experience.
- Programming Languages: Proficient in Golang, Java and/or Groovy with the ability to work in other languages.
- Version Control: Advanced Git usage, supporting team members in resolving issues.
- Debugging Bug Resolution: Skilled in identifying and resolving bugs across team and adjacent scopes.
- Code Review: Expert in reviewing code for quality, identifying potential issues, and suggesting improvements that consider cross-domain impacts.
- Testing: Proficient in writing unit, integration, and manual tests. Capable of validating impacts on interconnected applications and performing end-to-end testing.
- Documentation: Experienced in using Swagger, creating flow diagrams, and documenting APIs. Supports DEVEX team in mapping and publishing documentation externally. Promotes documentation culture and produces architectural diagrams as needed.
- Architecture Standards: Advises on best practices and solutions, aligning with Pismo s validated standards and patterns.
- Product Ownership: Deep understanding of team products actively participates in feature discussions, prioritization, and impact analysis across teams.
- Infrastructure Deployment: Skilled in resource creation using Terraform, application configuration, and deployment using Argo, Jenkins, and Codefresh. Understands integrations with Goalkeeper and infrastructure pipelines.
- Containerization Orchestration: Proficient in Docker and Kubernetes, including local setup, debugging, and cluster configuration. Supports SRE teams in advanced operations.
- Database Design: Strong knowledge of relational databases and ability to define strategies for non-relational databases. Capable of modeling data domains and selecting appropriate persistence layers.
- Monitoring Alerting: Designs monitoring strategies, sets up alerts, and ensures system observability to prevent issues.
- Microservices Architecture: Designs scalable microservices, evaluates architectural trade-offs, and ensures robustness under high request volumes.
- Cloud Services: Proficient in AWS services used at Pismo, applying best practices for performance and integration.
- Distributed Systems: Identifies and resolves distributed system issues, rethinking solutions to optimize performance and reliability.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Technical Leadership: Consistently leads their squad to successful technical outcomes, ensuring sound engineering decisions that balance technical debt, system design, reliability, observability, and business needs.
- High-Impact Contributions: Regularly recognized for delivering high-quality, impactful technical solutions within their team and across collectives.
- Coding Standards Best Practices: Actively enables other engineers to elevate coding standards and deepen awareness of best practices, especially around non-functional requirements.
- Product Awareness Planning: Demonstrates strong product understanding, contributes meaningfully to quarterly planning, and collaborates with PMs or team leads to shape squad vision.
- Mentorship Feedback: Proactively supports the growth of other engineers through mentoring, sponsorship, and constructive feedback.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Frequently consulted by engineers from other squads, demonstrating the ability to tackle complex and ambiguous problems under pressure.
- Technology Strategy: Keeps up with emerging technology trends and contributes insights to squad-level strategic discussions.
