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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.
Leads and mentors in creating reusable code, applies metrics for code quality, ensures code security, uses debugging tools, identifies automation opportunities, leads code reviews, applies best practices in code review, and handles complex pull requests requiring technical knowledge.
Creates complex test plans to identify and resolve defects, prioritizes necessary tests, identifies test gaps and risks, proactively identifies and contains software defects, and summarizes findings from testing teams to share with stakeholders.
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.
Builds and enhances developer tools to support code creation and maintenance, identifies useful tools for product creation, seeks new knowledge on trends and technical solutions to improve product performance, and recommends resources to other engineers.

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.

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

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

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What You Should Know About Staff SW Engineer, Visa

Join Visa as a Staff Software Engineer in Ashburn, where you'll be part of an innovative technology community reshaping the future of commerce. Here at Visa's Technology Organization, our team is dedicated to solving complex challenges that help manage over 65,000 secure transactions every second for millions worldwide. We're looking for versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers ready to tackle big projects on a global scale. In this role, you will collaborate with a multi-functional team to design and build software products that reach a global audience, influencing the way money transactions occur daily. You'll have the chance to work on distributed systems and contribute to new payment flows and cybersecurity solutions that matter. Your work will involve everything from coding and designing system components to mentoring junior engineers and leading code reviews. You’ll be immersed in creating robust solutions that ensure scalability and security, while also embracing industry best practices. As a Staff Software Engineer, you're not just writing code; you’re contributing to the digital future and helping shape innovations. If you’re eager to work on projects that have a significant real-world impact and are passionate about learning and collaboration, we’d love to see you join our team. Let’s create the future together!

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What are the main responsibilities of a Staff Software Engineer at Visa?

As a Staff Software Engineer at Visa, your main responsibilities include designing and developing software that impacts millions of users, collaborating with various stakeholders to gather project requirements, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring code quality and security. You’ll participate in project estimations and contribute to both product design and implementation, making your work crucial to Visa's innovation in digital transactions.