Staff UX Design Engineer
Austin, TX

Job Description

Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind - making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa's sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

Responsibilities

* Lead the design efforts for the UX Platform team with support and guidance on project specific processes,
* Review, analyze designs, modify, develop, test, document, implement, deploy and support software applications within the scheduled timeframe
* Analyze and resolve complex problems associated with applications systems. Detect, diagnose, and report related problems
* Collaborate with and lead other developers on best practices, code reviews, internal tools and process improvements
* Review of the product architecture, design, requirements specifications, and test specifications
* Determine and provide estimates for development tasks
* Provide technical assessment of the impact of any changes to product requirements
* Lead the continued improvement of the organization's development procedures by looking for opportunities for improvement and implementing solutions
* Resolution of technical issues in conjunction with team members
* Ensuring that designs, code, and unit tests are consistent, robust, and scalable
* Leads project related meetings
* Actively manage engagements to support overall project goals, budgets and timelines

Typical Tasks:

* Collaborate with technical managers, architects and other technical leads to deliver world class enterprise grade software and software enabled services
* Work very closely with UX team on UX design, POCs, templates, standards etc.
* Mentor engineers on the team and ensure high code quality by performing code reviews, providing guidance, developing standards and managing work allocation within SCRUM Agile project teams ensuring highest productivity
* Mentor/shared knowledge with other teams on technology and process ensuring best practices and continuous improvement
* Architect, Design, Develop, unit test, debug, deploy and support software ensuring end to end software life cycle
* Follow software engineering discipline ensuring delivery of stable, scalable, maintainable and highly available software products and services
* Engage in Continuous improvement ensuring higher quality, productivity and punctual delivery
* Run workshops on technical aspects of products ensuring continuous learning
* Identify and report assessed risks and potential solutions ensuring proactive risk management
* Work with technical team members to overcome and resolve all technical related roadblocks ensuring team risk mediation

Skills and Experience

* Minimum 7 years' experience developing enterprise-level, mission critical, database-driven software for medium and large application development projects. Full life cycle experience is required.
* Extremely thorough understanding of UI frameworks and Design Systems like React/AngularJS and Material Design.
* Experience in React required.


* Thorough understanding of software design and development including programming languages, Object oriented analysis and design, and application architecture and design.
* Must be focused on the delivery of customer value, in the form of executing software that meets the customer's needs.
* Must be able to interact and communicate with all levels of staff and project management in both the business and the technical areas
* Must be able to work with a scrum team
* Possess excellent analytical, problem solving, organizational, interpersonal, and motivational skills, with the ability to move cleanly from theoretical to implementation thinking.

"Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code."