Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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The successful candidate will be working on the Visa Payment Authorization Applications Development team which is part of the Payment Products Development organization. This team is responsible for the ownership and development of the VIP system application. The VIP application applies business logic and routes digital currency between transaction acquirers and issuers globally. The candidate should be a motivated self-starter requiring limited direction.

 Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintain and enhance the Visa Authorization system

• Provide application support, 24x7 on-call production support as per schedule and problem resolution for the Authorization system

• Ensure that the standard software development life cycle is followed

• Develop technical specifications from high level business requirements

• Work with architects, systems analysts, project managers, QA and other developers to successfully implement business requirements while applying the latest available tools and technology

• Initiative to ensure on-schedule delivery of a high-quality product that meets technical requirements

• Participate in design and code review sessions as appropriate to ensure the quality of work delivered by teammates is in accordance with development standards

• Clearly communicate to management on the status of projects and incidents for self and teammates

• Assist application developers in developing efficient zTPF based applications

• Assist application developers in self-learning and training process

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.

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electronics/ Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline is required
• 5 years of experience in zTPF applications programming
• Experience in developing electronic payment systems is highly desirable
• C++ and IBM High Level Assembler experience in the zTPF environment
• Familiarity with VPARS, TPF toolkit and debugger, and testing TPF in a VM environment
• Experience with structured analysis, object-oriented analysis and distributed systems and/or client server desirable
• Ability to work effectively on multiple concurrent assignments with both technical and business staff
• Flexibility, self-motivated, high work standards, attention to detail, ability to perform as an individual contributor or as a member or leader of a team
• Excellent written, verbal, analytical and interpersonal skills

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.