What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Software Engineer position at Visa?
Company Description
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.
Job Description
This opening is for a role on the Engineering Productivity (EngProd) team within Visa's Issuing Solutions organization. We have two missions in our charter:
Evaluate or develop software approaches to address problems that our adjacent software product teams don’t have space to take on themselves and,
Improve the developer experience and overall engineering productivity of the rest of the software teams in Issuing Solutions.
For the first mission, we may be evaluating new technologies, frameworks, tools, or processes. We might be developing a short-lived proof-of-concept application that allows us to test an idea out.
For the second mission, we’re invested in identifying bottlenecks and pain points in the developer workflows of the teams around us and rolling out improvements that benefit everyone. These may be improvements in Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tooling, consulting on effective test strategies, improvements in developer infrastructure, etc.
We operate outside of the release and delivery schedules of our adjacent product engineering teams, but we are still accountable to helping make things better for all those teams.
We expect all software engineers on this team to:
Be capable of contributing to development efforts outside of their core programming language
Work with small, agile teams of adjacent engineers (anywhere from 2-5 at a time) on targeted improvement projects, prototypes, proofs-of-concept
Work with teammates and leads to resolve ambiguous requirements and set realistic milestones and goals
Clearly communicate progress and lessons learned
The projects that our team takes on will vary over time, so we're looking for teammates that can thrive in an environment that is constantly growing and evolving.
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.
Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
-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.
-Solid mastery of at least one core modern programming language such as
Java, C#, Go, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript. (In practice, most of our
development is frequently in Java or C#, but we sometimes need to work
outside of our core development stacks.)
-Experience deploying and monitoring services in a production environment
with low-downtime (ideally zero-downtime) deployments
-First-hand experience working with automated Continuous Integration /
Continuous Delivery tooling and practices
-Ability to apply automated testing practices at the unit and integration levels to
produce high-quality, maintainable code.
Preferred Qualifications:
-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
-Professional experience working in programming languages beyond their core
language (i.e. polyglot programming)
-Experience working with the Kubernetes ecosystem (including Docker,
Kubernetes, Helm, and/or GitOps approaches)
-Design and operation of distributed systems and architectures
Additional Information
Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
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.
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.
U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 117,700.00 to 170,600.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. 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.
Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.
