Sr. SW Engineer

Visa•Austin, TX

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms. The Opportunity: This position is for a technical resource with solid development experience who will focus on creating new capabilities for Risk Platform - Visa Risk Manager team while maturing our code base and development processes. 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: Collaborate with project team members (Product Managers, Architects, Analysts, Software Engineers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure development and implementation of new data driven business solutions. Drive development effort End-to-End for on-time delivery of high quality solutions that conform to requirements, conform to the architectural vision, and comply with all applicable standards. Responsibilities span all phases of solution development including: Collaborate with senior technical staff and PM to identify, document, plan contingency, track and manage risks and issues until all are resolved Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner. Coach & mentor junior engineers in the team and contingent staff in Development best practices. Responsible for driving large to medium-sized feature projects and technology initiatives in terms of tech specs, design, architecture, and deployment. End to end execution of components being added to platform and scoping out features 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. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Requirements

2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience
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, Python)
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

Nice To Haves

3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field with 5 years of Software Development Experience or a Masters degree with 2 years of Software Development Experience
Exposure to leading-edge tech such as Stream Computing, In-Memory Computing
Expert in at least one of the following: Golang, Java, or Python
Experience with web service standards and related patterns (REST, gRPC)
Experience developing large scale, enterprise class distributed system or subsystems that require high availability, low-latency, & strong data consistency computing
Experience implementing solutions for low-latency, distributed services using open standard technologies
Experience with Big Data and analytics in general leveraging technologies like Hadoop, Spark, and MapReduce a plus
Experience with distributed caching technologies like REDIS a plus
Experience architecting solutions with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in mind
Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear & concise way, a team player with a strong work ethic

Responsibilities

Collaborate with project team members (Product Managers, Architects, Analysts, Software Engineers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure development and implementation of new data driven business solutions.
Drive development effort End-to-End for on-time delivery of high quality solutions that conform to requirements, conform to the architectural vision, and comply with all applicable standards.
Responsibilities span all phases of solution development including:
Collaborate with senior technical staff and PM to identify, document, plan contingency, track and manage risks and issues until all are resolved
Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms.
Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.
Coach & mentor junior engineers in the team and contingent staff in Development best practices.
Responsible for driving large to medium-sized feature projects and technology initiatives in terms of tech specs, design, architecture, and deployment.
End to end execution of components being added to platform and scoping out features
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.

Benefits

Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

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