Senior Software Engineer

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

Company Description

About Visa

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. CyberSource, a Visa company, has been and continues to be a pioneer within the e-Commerce Payment Management world. Our VisaNet network is capable of handling over 65,000 transaction messages 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.

“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.”

Job Description

The Platform and Reliability Engineering department is part of the Network Processing organization. The role of the Platform and Reliability Engineering is to continue evolve our capabilities in line with Visa’s strategic efforts towards Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, Software Defined Networking, and embedded Security layer components. In partnership with Product Development and Test Engineering, as well as our Open VisaNet and Dispute Processing engineering teams. Our organization ensures that all Network Processing applications – current and future – deliver software using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deliver (CI/CD)processes with the highest levels of resiliency and availability. The successful candidate will work very closely with the multiple groups in Foster City, Austin, Denver, London, India, and Singapore.

As a full stack developer, the candidate will have the opportunity to build new applications from scratch, and influence system design. The individual will work closely with Product Management and other developers on the team to design, develop and iterate our platform/applications to prepare for broad deployment.

The candidate needs to have web development experience with primary focus on backend solutions. The candidate also needs to have solid C/C++ background. The individual must also be committed to continuous improvement of the agile/iterative process, demonstrating the ability to share knowledge, mentor and motivate others. The candidate must be willing to go beyond the routine and prepared to do a little bit of everything

Our goal is to build strong relationships with our customers by meeting or exceeding their expectations with an attitude of ownership, accountability, and sense of urgency. In this role the candidate will be responsible for maintaining excellent customer satisfaction by providing world class solutions and interactive web applications.

 

Primary Responsibilities

• Building web applications using the latest technologies.
• Write software code following best practices and must meet security requirements.
• Create design components, develop code and test changes utilizing test-driven development. Coding must adhere to department standards, be easily maintainable, and have high system performance.
• Passion for coding and creative problem solving.
• Strong communication skills.
• Develop close working relationships with members of teams within the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent technical degree) is required
• At least 5 years of experience building applications using C/ C++, Javascript/NodeJS, Golang, Java/J2EE
• Experience building and integrating secure REST APIs.
• Experience with one or more SQL or NoSQL database (MongoDb, DB2, MySQL, Redis, and/or Cassandra).
• Experience with Git, Jenkins
• Bonus if candidate has experience in AngularJS or React
• Write software code following best practices and must meet security requirements.
• Experience working in an agile environment with rapid prototyping cycles.
• Strong computer science background and analytical skills. Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user- system interaction.
• Up-to-date with the latest UI trends, technologies stacks and client web application architecture.
• Familiarity with test driven development
• Strong understanding of various development methodologies and their respective best practices
• Creative thinking and problem solving skills
• Excellent communications skills (verbal and written)

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