Staff SW Engineer - C/C++

Visa • Foster City, CA

82d • $146,200 - $211,850 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a part of the Payments Product Development Team. You will be responsible for system development, implementation, maintenance and support of Visa's Clearing and Settlement systems, which clear, settle, and deliver transactions to issuer and acquirer financial institutions globally. Through this challenging job, you'll gain experience collaborating with various parts of the business in understanding requirements for system enhancements, identifying areas of improvement and implementing changes to the system where it is needed. You'll provide rotational day time on call support for problem resolution. The product that you oversee will be of the highest quality meeting all requirements within the scheduled timeframe.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong working knowledge in C and/or C++.
• Strong problem analysis skills and ability to resolve critical issues for complex systems under tight timeframes using dumps and other tools.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to multitask and handle multiple competing priorities with minimal direction from management.
• Ability to understand systems from all levels, from the big picture enterprise-level view to the low-level technical view.
• Must be able to write high level design, translate it into technical design and build documentation for all aspects of a technical infrastructure.

Nice To Haves

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD.
• Great planning and organizational skills.
• Experience in any of these will be an advantage - Z/OS systems, JCL, DB2.
• Domain knowledge in Cards and Payments Domain.
• Experience with designing highly scalable and/or complex solutions.
• Curiosity and creativity, to want to understand customer requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions.
• Experience with developing solutions for highly scalable, highly available complex systems, preferably in the payment systems or other financial services industry.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business units and technical staff to define requirements/modifications for use in designing appropriate solutions.
• Evaluate options and provide recommendation on scope and scale of effort required to develop solutions.
• Create design documents, code, unit/functional test, document and implement new programs and subprograms, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software.
• Build and maintain effective relationships across functional areas in order to provide superior product support.
• Support and deliver on resulting initiatives from the Business Plan and Technology strategy leveraging re-use, eliminating duplicative components, architectural design, and use of innovative products.
• Work to ensure technology decisions are business driven.
• Suggest and cultivate ideas on the extension of the current systems to new products and services.
• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards, processes and systems.
• Provide rotational day time on-call support (once in every 3 months or so) as scheduled.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401 (k)
• FSA/HSA
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree