Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

We dream of a future where it's easy to pay and be paid. Across the planet, wherever, whenever, securely and easily. We have a great toolbox of leadership technologies including Cybersource, Authorize.net, and PlaySpan. 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 a talented Sr Software Development Engineer to join our team!

As a Sr. Software Development Engineer in the payment technology team you will help lead, design, enhance and build our services for Customers in an agile development environment. 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. You will see the code written going to production in few days, and used by huge customer base including Apple, Facebook, Nike, Emirates... If this sounds exciting, we would love to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment

Responsibilities:

We expect our Sr Software Development Engineers to do much more than just write code. They will also:

• Help our client achieve their real goals by understanding the requirements from the clients perspective.


• Use technologies like .Net/Java, REST, SOAP, JSON, SQL and more.


• Leverage newer technologies to develop solutions, and build the next generation of Payment services.


• Lead efforts to architect, design and implement various aspects of our global transaction processing systems.


• Be comfortable in leading meetings and discussions with non-technical teams.


• Have excellent interpersonal skills and be a team player.


• As a key member of the development team, the candidate should be comfortable with driving technical ideas and communicating clearly with technical as well as non-technical audiences. 

Most important qualities for the candidate are:

• Academics: Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.

• Leadership: Leading solutions and working with teams to achieve it.

• Curiosity: A desire to seek clarity of requirements and why tasks are done a certain way.

• Creativity: The ability to take a list of needs and insights and come up with other innovative ideas.

• Enthusiasm: A passion to understand people and deliver better products and services to them.

• Strategic focus: Skill to understand big picture and stay focused on task to achieve goals.

• Attention to detail: The capability to perform any research systematically and accurately.

• Strong work ethic: The innate drive to do work extremely well.

• Bachelors in Computer Science and 2 years’ experience, or Masters/PhD in Computer Science.


• .Net experience with N-tier web application development in enterprise-class, mission-critical, commercial, and scalable products.


• Ability to communicate effectively up, down and across to assure that your ideas are heard.


• Passion for exceeding expectations and delivering exceptional code.


• Ability to develop code that follows established coding guidelines.


• Ability to understand systems from all levels: from the "big picture" enterprise-level view to the low level technical view.


• Experience with web services standards and related technologies (Xml, Json, Rest, Soap, WS*, Axis, Jersey).


• Working knowledge of client side technologies such as MVC3/MVC4/Struts, Asp/Jsp, Angular/JQuery, CSS/SASS.


• Experience with financial services industry or Payment and/or Credit Card processing is a plus.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.