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SW Engineer

Visa
Ashburn, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/1/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/25/2025

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

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 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 :

  • Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa's internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability
  • Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings
  • Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads
  • Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.
  • Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology
  • Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities

Essential Functions :

  • Demonstrates basic knowledge and asks questions about project requirements.
  • Reviews and asks questions about solution strategies that improve the design and functionality of a payment product feature.
  • Applies standard processes on the use of front-end programming languages (e.g. HTML, C , Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements, under close guidance.
  • Works under close guidance from others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
  • Identifies and advances bugs that threaten website functionality
  • The Skills You Bring :

  • 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, C#, C )
  • 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
  • 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. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

    Qualifications

    Basic Qualifications

    Bachelors degree, OR 3 years of relevant work experience

    Preferred Qualifications

    2 or more years of work experience

    As a Software Engineer, you will be part of our Acceptance solutions technology team to help design, enhance and build our transactional platform in an agile development environment. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily.

    You will play part of team tasked with multiple projects ranging from building full stack development of real-time container based transactional microservices to highly functional, secure, scalable and resilient API gateway and IAM systems. We are looking for a self-motivated individual with software engineering skills.You will work on unit testing, code reviews and regular check-ins to continuous integration that will become part of your DNA. The candidate will be extensively involved in hands-on activities including POCs, development, testing, and documentation.

    If this sounds exciting, we would love to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment.

    Qualifications :

  • You have a Bachelor or a Masters degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • You have knowledge and experience of Java and related technologies.
  • We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand customer requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions.
  • While you'll have the skill to see and understand the big picture, you're able to stay focused on the task at hand to achieve immediate goals
  • You're great at systematic and accurate research wanting to uncover the smallest detail
  • You'll develop and deliver new features every few days and be responsible for them end-end
  • You have amazing work ethics that will help us all work extremely well together
  • You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and above all, you are a team player!
  • Additional Information

    Work Hours : Varies upon the needs of the department.

    Travel Requirements : This position requires travel5-10% 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 84,600.00 to 119,650.00 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.

    Salary : $84,600 - $119,650

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