
Staff Software Engineer - Crypto Program (Hybrid/Onsite)
- Foster City, CA
- $138,500-200,700 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability
- Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings
- Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads
- Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.
- Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology
- Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities
- 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.
- 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
- 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD
- 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
- Proven experience designing and developing backend applications for high performance, distributed systems.
- Proven expertise developing software within the Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC) model.
- Strong proficiency in object-oriented programming languages such as Java, Go, and C++.
- Solid understanding of blockchain technologies, DeFi protocols, consensus protocols and security schemes.
- Experience developing smart contracts for EVM-compatible blockchains, strong knowledge of ERC standards and EIPs for building scalable dApps.
- Experience with test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, and performance testing.
- Experience with CI/CD tools.
- Highly motivated and quick to learn new technologies to tackle complex challenges.
- Background in payments and financial services is a plus.
- Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and leadership abilities, with effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to present complex concepts clearly and succinctly.