Staff Software Engineer (Javascript / AngularJS)
- Full-time
- Job Family Group: Technology and Operations
Company Description
At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.
You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.
Job Description
This position is an individual contributor role on the Network Processing Development Team. The successful candidate will be part of a team to design and develop microservices and perform unit and integration testing on newly developed components. Candidate will assist with troubleshooting and resolving defects during the software development life cycle. This role will also contribute to building and maintaining Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Pipelines. Candidate will interface directly with staff members of Development, Product Management, Project Management, and Quality Assurance.
As a key member of the development team, the candidate should be comfortable with driving technical ideas and communicating clearly with technical as well as non-technical audiences.
Responsibilities
- Take complete end-to-end technical & engineering ownership of one or more applications.
- As a fullstack developer, design, develop, document and implement new functionality, as well as build enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software.
- Coordinate engineering activities across the delivery of the project and work with engineers to ensure they are delivering quality and efficiently against project requirements.
- Take a hands on role in influencing and guiding day-to-day development activities by leading architecture decisions, participating in designs, design review, code review, and implementation
- Be the ambassador for engineering best practice across the development lifecycle and champion continuous improvement across the Centre
- Define solutions in terms of components, modules and algorithms
- Refactor existing solutions to make it reusable and scalable
- Leads and/or supports both product and technical discussions about how to apply existing and/or new technology in support of the business.
- Create design documents, code, unit/functional test, document and implement new programs and subprograms, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software.
- Must be able to understand the positioning of a solution within the company and to build consensus to effectively gain buy-in from all participants.
- Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards, processes and systems.
- Design and develop microservices based application using Golang / Java/ ReactJs and others.
- Develop unit-tests and oversee execution.
- Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes.
- Prepare design documents; evaluate and recommend solutions to meet user requirements; define and implement solutions.
- Participate in the Agile process including stand-up meetings, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives.
- Lead by example; demonstrating accountability, mentoring junior team members, and by contributing to departmental procedures, best practices, and standards.
- Coordinate and collaborate with teams across multiple timezones
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 5 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of relevant work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
- Experience in developing web based application and / or microservices using Javascript
- Experience with database technologies like MySQL, SQL Server, Mongo DB.
- Working experience in Angular, NodeJS, and REST web services
Preferred Qualifications:
- Be 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 result
- Knowledge and working experience on Golang, ReactJs, Git/Stash, Jenkins and Jira
- Experience in applying modern Agile Software Development practices is required.
- Experience handling vendor product and integration with internal Windows/Linux based applications.
- Must be capable of translating architecture into a delivered solution that realizes the vision and purpose and effectively translate functional and non-functional requirements into an engineered solution.
- Should be able to lead the technical team in comfortably extending an existing solution, or conceiving a new solution and working with delivery to have the target state architecture realized.
- Provides direction for selecting appropriate engineering techniques to solve for non-functional requirements at the project level.
- Strong problem determination skills and ability to resolve critical issues for complex systems under tight timeframes using dumps and other tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to multi task and handle multiple competing priorities with minimal direction from management. Should possess excellent planning and organizational skills.
- Must be able to write technical design and build documentation for all aspects of a technical infrastructure.
- Good interpersonal and facilitation skills
Additional Qualifications:
•We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand the 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 have amazing work ethics that will help us all work extremely well together
•You have the passion to understanding people and to always striving to improve our products and services
Additional Information
Work 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.