Development Specialist

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

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.

**Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.**

**Job Description**:
**Team Summary**

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.

**What a Development Specialist does at Visa**

The Development Specialist is recognized as a technical leader and expert developer working with one or more teams to ensure engineering excellence for their teams contributing to their stream of work areas of Visa Spend Clarity.

They champion technical excellence while leading the software development process, technical design, and best practice in their team or teams. They work to ensure that any software development undertaken by their teams is in alignment with the overall stream goals

While committed to delivery as part of a team and stream, you will spend a portion of time to work with the engineering practice to improve the company-wide engineering culture, practices, training, and standards at Visa. You will also assist in the implementation of new standards, technologies, or methodologies across the broader engineering community.

**Mentoring and Coaching**
- Motivates and empowers teammates to achieve higher level of performance.
- Facilitates targeted coaching and development to support the evolution of engineering practices within the teams they work with.
- Identifies and nurtures people with high potential for growth.
- Has open conversations by giving and receiving feedback in a safe working environment.

**Collaboration and Communication**
- Represents their team or teams when working with key stakeholders effectively to solve problems.
- Builds productive partnerships with product management, designers, architects, and engineers.
- Clearly communicates technical issues, and clearly ties team technical work to organization objectives.
- Has open conversations by giving and receiving feedback in a safe working environment.
- Facilitates and de-escalates conflicts within their teams by building consensus between co-workers about technical matters.

**Engineering Excellence**
- Helps set and maintain professional standards for their team or stream.
- Has made a positive impact on the technical trajectory of their team or stream and has a track record of creating improvements in stability, performance, and scalability.
- Identifies and advocates for foundational work and practice improvements in their team or stream
- Works closely with the broader engineering community to evolve and improve how we work.

**Leadership and Influence**
- Leads initiatives and meetings within team and domain. Builds consensus for decisions.
- Motivates and empowers teammates to achieve higher level of performance.
- Sought out by other engineers in their team or stream for technical guidance.
- Involved in recruiting strong engineers and actively participates in hiring.

**Results and Implementation**
- Continuous improvement of technical practices to ensure effectiveness across the teams they work within.
- In collaboration with Product and Engineering management, ensure the teams they work within deliver fit-for-purpose solutions and prioritize pragmatic technical improvements (such as repair, debt recovery, and refactoring).
- Ensure technical initiatives consider the measurable impact they would have on the business objectives.
- Drives foundational work benefiting their domain and engineering overall. Has stream-wide impact on architecture and technology solutions.

**Why this is important to Visa**

The Development Specialist champions technical excellence while leading the software development process, technical design, and best practice in their team or teams. They work to ensure that any software development undertaken by their teams is in alignment with the overall stream goals.

**Qualifications**:
What you will need:

- 10 or more years experience in a