Staff SW Engineer - Mainframes Developer

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

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: 

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Staff Software Engineer 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.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Prepare technical documents, develop code, review code, build environment, review test results, and prepare plan for implementation
• Analyze technical impact, stability, and functionality due to any custom change
• Manage small to medium-sized project/initiatives as an individual contributor with advanced knowledge within discipline.
• Evaluate code to ensure it is valid, meets industry standards and is compatible with devices and/or operating systems
• Develop or validate test routines and schedules to ensure that test cases mimic external interfaces
• Proactively identify defects in software code and isolate/contain the defects to prevent customer impact.
• Build partnerships with product management to ensure that the products being built deliver real value
• Identify problems uncovered by testing or customer feedback and correct problems

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 6 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
• 8-12 years development role experience on MVS/OS390 batch application
• 6+ years development role experience in COBOL/JCL/ISPF
• 6+ years development role experience using FILE-AID
• 6+ years development role experience using ESP, CA7 or another scheduling software
• Ability to solve complex software development/design issues
• Ability to write clean, coherent code following established coding guidelines
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and effective communication skills (both written and verbal) and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills
• Ability to work independently exhibiting strong multitasking and time management skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication (oral & written) skills including the ability to translate technical issues/concepts into ways for non-technical staff to understand
• General knowledge of EFT settlement and transaction processing is a plus
• REXX/Control-M experience is a plus
• Connex/Advantage settlement application is a plus
• Past experience in the Payment industry is a plus

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.