Staff Software Engineer - Engineering and Operations- Digital and Mobile Product Development (DMPD)

  • 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's Digital and Mobile Product Development (DMPD) team is building a new generation of products to facilitate commerce in everyone's digital and mobile lives. At DMPD, we are focused on creating smarter payment solutions that provide fast, easier ways to pay with phone, web and other digital devices wherever you are – remote or proximity payment.  

Engineering and Operations team in Visa Digital and Mobile Products group is responsible for providing operational excellence across various technology teams by developing tools and capabilities needed for seamless execution. The team is focused on early integration capabilities, Automation and Mobile capabilities needed to facilitate the software development process, push new features from development to production in a predictable, low risk and agile manner. The role is a self-organized Software Engineer with solid J2EE and web service development experience.  In this position, you are first and foremost a passionate and talented developer that can work in a dynamic environment as a member of Agile Scrum teams.  Your strong technical leadership, problem solving abilities, coding, testing and debugging skills is just a start.  An ideal candidate will also have a strong operations background, release engineering, automation and tools development experience.  Mobile Development experience is a plus. You must also be committed to continuous improvement of the agile process, demonstrating your ability to share knowledge, mentor and motivate others.  You must be willing to go beyond the routine and prepared to do a little bit of everything.

In this role you will: 

  • Work independently, driving projects end to end and provide guidance to junior engineers 
  • Write software code that complies with design specifications and meets security and Java/J2EE best practices that will meet development and support requirements  
  • Work on building automated build pipeline, continuous integration and continuous deployment and test automation frameworks with tools such as Git/Stash and Jenkins 
  • Ensure, through automation, that code quality tools are run on all software prior to release. 
  • Build tools on Mobile Technologies like Android and IOS Application Development, Mobile test frameworks such as Appium and other similar technologies. 
  • Collaborate with team members in design reviews, development and code reviews  
  • Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to standards, best practices and development methodologies 
  • Implement and enforce best practices for code promotion across the various environments. 
  • Strong SDLC background in Agile/Iterative practices 
  • Create documentation and procedures for development, deployment and maintenance 
  • Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfer and mentorship to engineering peers as required and lead technical staff responsibilities. 
  • Triage and provide technical solutions to environment and build/deploy related issues
  • Review implementation plans and participate and even be able to manage product installations
  • Validate successful introduction of newly deployed products and feature sets to the market.

Qualifications

 

  • Master's degree or Bachelor's degree with equivalent experience, in software engineering, computer science, or computer & information system 
  • Minimum 7.5 years as a Software engineer supporting JAVA Applications
  • 1-2 years’ experience with Agile Scrum development methodologies
  • Hands on experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment
  • 3+ years of work experience in working with management and maintenance of application running on tomcat.
  • Strong scripting skills in Python, UNIX shell scripting and Perl.
  • Solid background in systems engineering and operations would be an advantage 
  • Hands on experience in tools such as Jenkins, Git/Stash, Liquibase, Maven and Chef 
  • Possesses a solid understanding of modern web application architecture, Apache, Tomcat, TCP/IP, HTTP and n-tier architecture.
  • Knowledge of Mobile Technologies like Android and IOS Application Development, Mobile test frameworks such as Appium and other similar technologies is a plus.
  • Hands on experience with administering Linux systems 
  • Knowledge of monitoring, logging and management tools
  • Willingness to learn and build new tools from scratch
  • Excellent process orientation and exhibited planning, organizational and problem solving skills
  • Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and leadership skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills.

 

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