Staff Software Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Visa is looking for C# ASP.NET developers to help them develop the Authorize.Net applications. As a software engineer in 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 start out learning our systems from the ground up, helping to develop secure solutions to current problems. You will be working on a live production environment and will get excellent ecommerce
experience that will help you throughout your career.

Responsibilities:

We expect our engineers to do much more than just writing code:

    • Help our client to achieve their real goals by understanding the requirements and how it would help them in their business

    • Partner closely with teams to produce an application that flows seamlessly and works intuitively with our merchants

    • Architect the next generation of Payment Services and Authorize.net Applications by leveraging newer technologies.

    • Lead efforts to architect, design, build, iterate and manage our set of applications supporting various aspects of our global transaction processing systems

    • Comfortable in leading meeting and discussions with non-technical teams

    • Finding the best and most creative solution to many different types of problems

    • Write optimized and quality code.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

    • Required Experience: Masters with 8+ years, or Bachelors with 10+ years of relevant experience in computer science or related field

    • C#,.NET 2.0-4.5 (ASP.Net, WCF, WF, ADO.Net, Asmx, WebAPI), Visual Studio 2015/2017

    • SQL Server 2008/2014, Transact SQL, Stored Procedures

    • Unit Testing

    • Designing and Developing Web Applications using Web-Services with understanding of commonly used design patterns

    • Driven and self-motivated. Work creatively to solve challenging problems

    • Willingness to work with different technologies

    • Mentor team members

    • Delivering and supporting Web Applications using Web-Services with understanding of commonly used design patterns.

    • Client side technologies such as MVC (x), JavaScript, CSS/SASS, Angular, Bootstrap, Knockout, JQuery, HTML/HTML5.


Nice to have:

    • RDBMS database design, optimization and performance and/or No-SQL

    • Strong experience profiling and correcting memory usage and threading issues, and optimizing code for performance

    • Web services standards and related technologies (XML, XSL, X-Path, JSON, Rest, Soap, WS*), Web Security, Asp.Net Web security infrastructure

    • Familiarity with Github

    • Experience with Agile methodologies/SCRUM

    • Excellent written and communication skills and leadership potential

    • 2+ years of experience as manager, including focus on training needs

    • Managing teams working on the Microsoft .NET (2.0-4.5), C++ applications

    • Ability to build cross functional partnerships to achieve goals. Strong communicator

    • Experience iterating through all phases of the SDLC in an Agile fashion

    • Experience working with offsite teams

    • Experience working with various open source technologies and source control systems

    • Attention to application performance and security related aspects


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

Additional Information

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.

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