Staff Software Engineer

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Job type

Full-time
 
Location
Auckland City, Auckland
 
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Company Description

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.


Job Description

A Staff Software Engineer is a pivotal software development role, working within a cohesive cross-discipline scrum team on the product backlog. You will be working alongside developers of intermediate and senior ability, as well as other team members and consultants.

This role requires a dedication to technical excellence, not only in writing code, but also in team-collaboration, testing, documentation. Good communication skills are essential, as well as a “can-do” attitude and willingness to work across various disciplines if required.

You will be part of a team who are growing the capabilities and services in the Visa Spend Clarity to deliver scalable and robust solutions that will take Visa Spend Clarity to more customers and users around the globe. With an engineering group of nearly 300 people, Visa Spend Clarity is a key focus area with large growth ambitions driven by customer needs and a desire to innovate using modern cloud technologies.

Areas of Accountability

Develop .NET, SQL, and related front-end code
Participate in technical design, collaborate with other Developers and Architects.
Peer review code
Follow coding style standards and guidelines
Use Test Driven Development techniques
Write Unit, Integration and Automation tests
Documentation. Document everything.
Share knowledge with other team members
Practice Kanban methodology
Participate in active learning with an open mind toward all our peers.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.


Qualifications

Key Experience

A good understanding of the Microsoft technology stack and how it could relate to Visa Spend Clarity.
You should have experience with the following technologies:
.NET and .NET Core/Standard development in C#
REST based Web API’s
Microsoft SQL Server
NET MVC 5, HTML, CSS, web standards (WAI-ARIA)
JavaScript, React, AngularJS
A good understanding of supplementary technology areas.Experience with design Patterns (CQRS, MVC, MVVM Repository etc.).
Experience with enterprise scale multi-tenant Cloud/SaaS web environments.
Experience with source control (e.g., Git, Subversion) and continuous integration (e.g., TeamCity.)
Experience with DDD, TDD, SOLID principles.
Good team collaboration skills and communication skills.
Good relationship building skills.
Open mind to learning skills and development processes.
Valuable Experience

5+ years’ experience in professional software development.
Experience with transactional systems for example: banking, finance, and telecommunications.
Financial industry experience.
Ideally tertiary qualified with appropriate certifications – however life experience is also important
Experience with Agile frameworks such Scrum or Kanban.
Ability to navigate complexity by quickly making sense of complex issues and ambiguity by seeking to clarity and isolate into the most important elements.
Leadership experience in inspiring others to use appropriate techniques and actions to move toward higher levels of performance.
Demonstrable experience of balancing commercial and technical considerations to achieve business outcomes.
Troubleshooting and performance optimisation experience, especially on production systems.
Working with enterprise distributed systems and SaaS applications.
Software delivery in regulated compliance-based environments.
Implementation of greenfield projects and evolution of legacy systems and processes.

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ****** 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.