Software Engineer (Front-end)

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.

SW Engineer – Service Reliability Product Development

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.

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.   

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a software engineer with application design and development experience who will take ownership and lead the engineering responsibility for multiple components in a project. You are a great teammate, making sure that everyone on your team feels valued and is excited to work with you. Location, time pressure, distractions, none of it matters: no matter the environment, you know you can code and build amazing, high-performing, and bug-free products.

No matter the challenge, you know you can find a solution and encourage others to think the same. You recognize when to ask for help and when to collaborate with others, working across departments and influencing in areas beyond immediate control. Above all, you are someone who takes initiative and thinks like an owner - you've defined your everywhere and lead others to find theirs all while launching Visa ahead of the game.

The Work itself:

• Clarifies and documents requirements, communicates them to the team.
• Partners with experienced staff to understand product interactions.
• Learns and implements reusable code for assigned components.
• Applies coding patterns, guidelines, and best practices.
• Understands basic security assessment to ensure safe code.
• Uses debugging tools to respond to issues in product features.
• Participates in code reviews for learning and feedback.
• Applies coding standards and assists with pull requests.
• Executes test plans to identify and resolve defects.
• Supports testing configuration and interprets results.
• Identifies and contains software defects to reduce impact.
• Uses developer tools to create, debug, and maintain code.
• Applies assigned methods and explores other tools.
• Engages in training to improve product reliability and performance.

Essential Functions

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., Golang orJava, Javascript or Typescript, Python)
• 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 or NextJS, NodeJS, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile or Scrum teams

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

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

Preferred Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages and frameworks such as Angular or React or NextJS, Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Golang, Python, HTML, CSS, HTTP, REST, JSON, Figma and Jupyter.
• Familiarity with design and development tools like VSCode, Jetbrain, Figma, Postman, and Jupyter.
• Experience building RESTful services using Python. 
• Experience with Golang or Java, Rust or any other object-oriented programming language is a plus.
• Experience with relational databases, particularly MySQL.
• Knowledge of No-SQL databases, with a preference for Cassandra or MongoDB.
• Basic understanding of Generative AI, AIML, NLP, and LLMs.
• Knowledge of Git for version control
• A big plus: Proficient with AI code generation tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cline, Aider, Claude Code, etc
• Familiarity with standard software development best practices.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Ability to multi-task in a dynamic and fast paced environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• 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

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.