Visa hiring Sr. Software Engineer- Full-Stack in Foster City, CA | LinkedIn (2024)

Company DescriptionVisa 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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Job DescriptionThe Opportunity:Visa Innovation Centers and Regional Solutions team focuses on building technology for the next generation of payments. We work on solving hard problems of the future in IoT, Mobile, UX and Data Analytics. We are looking for strong software engineers to help us build out several innovative products.

The Work Itself:This role requires quick problem solving skills, logical thinking, and application of programming techniques to craft, build, and maintain code. Deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms is a must. In addition to the technical abilities, the candidate will be a self-starter and equipped with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

The Software Engineer is an individual contributor role, and this developer will participate in development of several innovation projects. These projects will be instrumental in making an impact on Visa and the payments industry as a whole.

Essential Functions:

• Be at the heart of developing new ideas into demo-able products, and ultimately to commercial products
• Work alongside and collaborate with UX, development, and other partner teams to deliver products, features, services, and tools
• Drive rapid prototyping/feature development cycles from technical requirements, software designs, software implementation, debugging, and optimization
• Understand User Experience, design thinking and its importance to product features
• Participate in sprint planning, daily stand ups, product demos, test phases, retrospectives to ensure timely and high-quality delivery
• Work very closely with rest of the development team to ensure technical specifications and final product meet business requirements
• Work collaboratively across team boundaries to share common infrastructure and functional capabilities.

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 immigration support or relocation assistance for this role.QualificationsBasic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 or more years of work experience
• Basic/Intermediate skills in Java / C# / C++ /Python
• Good knowledge of data structures implementation and optimization
• Strong skills in multi-threading, concurrency, and error-handling and in implementing design patterns (singleton, facade, factory, observer etc.)
• Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting

Additional InformationWork 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 87,800.00 to 112,000.00 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.