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.
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As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership/oversight to software engineers as well partnering with your product partners on large and complex projects for merchant small business solutions. You understand the business imperatives tied to these strategic projects. You provide technology leadership and are the technical expert on strategic projects, drive the release strategy and guide the delivery of strategic projects aligned to business strategy on innovative payment acceptance and integrated commerce management with a focus on simplicity. You maintain awareness of dependencies between projects and delivery vision, while ensuring engineering excellence to the five nines. You build the strategy for your teams to design and deliver the next wave of enterprise FinTech innovation in the small business domain.
Essential Functions:
Technology Leadership: Mentor, coach, lead and motivate a high performing team of senior engineers to set clear priorities to achieve product/technology goals and KPIs.
Drive the coordination, organization and execution of qualitative and quantitative decisions and advise senior management on insights and recommended actions.
Strong and well-honed ability to influence, motivate and collaborate with a wide variety of partners and stakeholders.
Work cross functionally to proactively ensure Visa technologies are capable of handling emerging or future business requirements.
Extensive cross-organizational collaboration playing a crucial role in interfacing with various technology teams and business stakeholders to identify requirements, converting them to functional specs, prioritizing and driving execution using agile methodologies.
Lead feedback/influence high end technical designs into core product strategy, roadmap and go to market.
Drive internal proof of concept initiatives. When needed, quickly design and implement a prototype of a system or component with a proper architecture, and then hand over or lead a small group of developers to finish.
Establish best practices in client application development using engineering excellence
True adherence to Visa Leadership Principles (VLPs) with excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.
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.
Basic Qualifications:
• 14 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or with an Advanced Degree
• Mentor, coach, manage and motivate a high performing team of senior engineers, to achieve goals and KPIs.
• Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development of complex systems
• Significant experience with React.js, TypeScript, and modern front-end development tools.
• Proven experience with responsive web design and a deep understanding of modern web technologies, browsers, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Possesses a deep understanding of benefits/drawbacks of different integration patterns
• Continuous delivery and Dev Ops experience - infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing and security implementation and practices
• Software engineering experience in designing and developing software in C#, .Net, Azure Services, CICD, Web API, Rest API, DevOps/Pipeline.•
• Experience in code development using Eclipse/MyEclipse, JetBrains IntelliJ or any major Java ID
• Experience in API Development using SOAP or REST, JSON and XML
• Experience with TFS,GIT/Stash, Maven and Jenkins
• Experience in SQL and/or PL/SQL
• Experience in SqlServer, Oracle
• Experience with SOAPUI
• 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
• Experience developing as part of Agile/Scrum team is preferred
• Passionate about high quality and timeliness of deliverables
• Ability to deliver on multiple projects and manage priorities based on changing directions
• Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented
• Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity
• Past experience in Payments is preferred
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.