Staff SW Engineer

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.

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

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 (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) 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.

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, hacking beyond traditional solutions
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualification

5+ 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 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Passion for innovation, new ideas, quick prototyping, hackathons etc.

Prior work exploring and innovating new IP, genres, and product experiences

Professional experience in ideation and incubation which has led to shipping products

Multi-disciplinary skills and experience in ideation, software design, programming, debugging, and optimization.

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Self-motivated and drive for excellence.

Have an open-minded approach to development strategy and approaches

Capable of building culture for innovation.

Technical hands-on skills, ideally in multiple technology stacks for web development, APIs and on diverse platforms.

8+ years of software engineering experience.

2+ years of experience in technical leadership/mentoring roles.

MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent.

Preferred Qualification

Flavors of GenAI: Experience and understanding of Generative AI technologies and their applications.

Agentic Framework: Understanding of the agentic framework and mindset for leveraging Generative AI.

Innovation: Ability to think creatively about how to apply GenAI to improve and innovate within the payment technology space.

Collaboration: Proven experience in working with cross-functional teams to integrate GenAI solutions into existing systems.