Software Engineer - Nodejs, Angular

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.

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 
• Collaborates with stakeholders on project requirements, incorporates feedback, guides juniors, verifies assumptions, escalates design issues, clarifies timelines, understands team's solutions, and communicates potential risks.
• Designs product components following guidance, refines code plans, contributes to design documentation, and understands non-functional requirements using provided designs.
• Participates in project estimation, escalates potential delays, and collaborates with team members for solution delivery.
• Mentors others, develops maintainable code for a product, applies coding and security best practices, uses debugging tools for issue prevention, participates in code reviews, screens for coding patterns, and addresses pull requests requiring technical knowledge.
• Creates test plans, identifies required tests and tools, interprets test results to achieve business objectives, identifies and contains defects in software code to prevent customer impact, and prepares findings from testing teams to share with stakeholders.
• Responds to incidents during on-call rotations, troubleshoots common issues, deploys fixes, alerts teams to major issues, and escalates complex issues affecting multiple components to other engineers under appropriate guidance.
• Leverages software developer tools for code maintenance, identifies useful tools for product creation, stays aware of tools outside areas of expertise, and invests in staying current with training resources to improve product performance.

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
• Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance.
• Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements. 
• Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
• Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.

**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.

Basic Qualifications
- 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or more that 2 years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Front-End: Knowledge of and ability to develop front-end code (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript) in support of product development. This includes the extension of capabilities of solutions or products.
• User Interface Design: Knowledge of user interface design, which is the interaction where users and computers interact. This includes an understanding of how to provide an optimal industrial design experience through User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) Design.
• Back-end: Knowledge of and ability to develop back-end (e.g., Javascript for NodeJS, Python, Java) code in support of solution and product development. This includes the extension of capabilities of solutions and products.
• API (Application Program Interfaces) Generation: The ability to develop and utilize Application Program Interfaces (APIs), a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications that specify how software components should interact and are used when programming graphical user interface (GUI) components. An API may be for a web-based system, operating system, database system, computer hardware, or software library.
• AI/ML Experience: Knowledge and working experience with building applications or solutions using AI/ML e.g. use of Supervised/Unsupervised Learning, Deep Learning, Large Language Models (LLMs) to solve hard problems, using GenAI (like OpenAI based APIs) to build Chatbots and AI Agents.
• Experience on application development on Linux is required.
• Experience in applying modern Agile Software Development practices is required.
• Experience with database technologies like MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB.
• Knowledge and working experience on Git/Stash, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, CI/CD and Jira.
• Be equally passionate about technology and solving large-scale complex business problems.
• Be an established self-starter who possesses a relentless drive to initiate change, raise the technical bar and deliver results.
• Have expert knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle.
• Be equally content prototyping and tinkering with new applications as well operating within the rigor of making solutions production-ready.
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and enjoy working in a highly iterative, agile and collaborative team environment

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

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.