Sr. SW Engineer
Visa · Posted Oct 12
Digital payment technology platform and global payment card services corporation
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About the role
Visa is a global payments technology company facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Software Development Engineers design, implement, and improve software applications and systems, spending roughly 60–75% of their time coding with modern tools including AI-assisted development, cloud services, and automation frameworks. This role works with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, data scientists, QA, operations, and compliance, to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, high-quality fintech solutions while adhering to best practices, security standards, and regulatory requirements.
What you will do
- Collaborate with stakeholders to interpret requirements for project components and incorporate feedback into future designs or solution fixes.
- Translate business requirements by verifying assumptions and escalating potential design issues to appropriate stakeholders.
- Participate in system design and architecture, refining code plans and contributing to design documentation.
- Contribute to project estimation and escalate issues that may cause delays.
- Develop, implement, and maintain code for products, services, or components, applying coding patterns, guidelines, and best practices.
- Apply debugging tools to verify assumptions and proactively flag issues before they occur.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed and address routine pull requests.
- Create test plans and configure testing procedures to identify and resolve defects for multiple features.
- Respond to support requests during on-call rotations, troubleshooting issues and deploying fixes under guidance.
- Leverage and build knowledge of software developer tools to create, debug, and maintain code for components.
- Remain current in skills by investing time in training resources to improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience.
- Experience in one of the technologies/software systems Java, dotnet, C Sharp.(minimum two years).
- Experience in developing and/or implementing web-based or mobile applications (minimum two years).
- Good to have experience in system design and architecture for product components.
- Experience in debugging and troubleshooting software issues.
- Experience in code review and applying coding standards.
- Experience in test planning and execution for software features.
- Experience in responding to support requests and deploying fixes.
- Experience in using software developer tools for code creation and maintenance.
Preferred qualifications
- 3 or more years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD).
- Experience building and testing enterprise-scale web services (minimum one year).
- Experience working on client-facing project or technical teams (minimum one year).
- Experience in integrating feedback into design and solution fixes.
- Experience in mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Visa
Visa Inc. is a multinational payment card services corporation that facilitates electronic funds transfers worldwide. The company empowers global commerce through its secure digital payment network, connecting consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 34100 employees
- Founded
- 1958-09-18
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $17.9B raised
- 2008-03-19IPO$17.9B
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Product and Strategy Officer
Group President, Global Markets
Vice Chair, Chief People and Corporate Affairs Officer
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