Staff Software Engineer - job 1 of 50

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.

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.     

What do we do? The PPD Tools Enablement team supports the VisaNet Integrated Payment (VIP) System by delivering quality services and solutions using best-in-class processes, methodologies, and technology with our worldwide workforce. We are an integral part of Visa and provide VIP Test System support – environment, infrastructure, tools, and overall general user support.to Dev and TE community.  The support includes the core setup/execution/compare tools, but also processes that are not user tools, including message extracts and message scrubbing routines. Most of the tools are in support of VIP QA, but we support PARSEMS for Native testing and various specialized message extract requests. The scrubbing routines have set a standard at Visa and have been used by some groups external to VIP.

We are key stakeholder to support annual capacity planning and feed in the test data to TE for supporting Business Releases, quarterly, monthly and weekly projects, maintenance work, as well as multiyear infrastructure projects.

The Opportunity: 
We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Staff Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale.  As a Visa Staff 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: 

• Execute Z/TPF-related jobs to meet both system maintenance and application processing requirements.
• Contribute to and provide insights on z/VM capacity planning on a quarterly basis, aiming to modernize the process and increase its frequency
• Provide message capture data to Test Engineering for their special regression tests required for new projects.
• Provide regression data sets to Test Engineering, most of the information is sourced from production MVSD/4/5 data pulls, including DTD, CDB files, ALPID, and DRB.
• Capture and prepare test message data for Native Z/TPF testing and maintain and support the PARSEMS message driver.
• Maintain PARSEM and related programs, generally REXX and CMS Pipelines with some Assembler.
• Provide consultancy on the overall database setup and the anticipated modernization of tools and activities such as Logprint LTA, Prod D Capture ensuring a robust and efficient system tailored to meet our specific needs.
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities 

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge of VIP Systems, ISO messages
• Provide expert support for Z/TPF infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
• Exhibit excellent communication skills, with the ability to multi-task and work effectively under pressure.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge and experience in Z/TPF Development tools, processes, and procedures, operations to guarantee the uninterrupted delivery of service, performance, and availability of multiple Z/TPF test systems.
• Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies that improve the design and functionality of PPD tools, under minimal guidance.
• Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features
• Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.

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

Basic Qualifications
•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

Preferred Qualifications
•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
•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 VM/REXX, CMS Pipelines, IBM Assembler
•Preferred experience in C/C++, and Linux - bash scripting, mySQ, Python
•Knowledge of ISO, JSON, and financial messages.
•Proficiency in z/Z/TPF Mainframe and supporting systems such as z/VM and Z/OS (MVS)
•Basic Qualifications: 8 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 6 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD)
•Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
•Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies and able to prioritize work and maintain focus.
•Partnership: Must be a self-starter who is highly organized, hands-on, and a team player and has experience collaborating with Test, Dev-ops, Development teams
•Aptitude: Excellent problem solving, analytical and technical troubleshooting skills. Strong ability in root cause analysis of issues, resolving testing issues, and driving issues to closure.
•Result Oriented: Proven ability to deliver quality results in a busy and dynamic business focused environment.

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.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 124,700.00 to 180,650.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.