Senior Software Engineer, Innovation Dubai UAE

Position: Senior Software Engineer, Innovation

Date posted: 2019-07-20

Industry: Payment Service

Employment type: Full Time

Experience: 5 to 10 year

Qualification: Bachelor’s / Master Degree is required

Salary: AED 10000 to 20000

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Company: VISA

Description:

Hiring Senior Software Engineer, Innovation

Company 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 Visa Net 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.

Job Description

Visa Innovation Center focuses on building technology for the next generation of payments. We work on solving hard problems of the future in IoT, Blockchain, Mobile, UX, Machine Learning, and Data Analytics. We are looking for hands-on expert level software engineers to help us build some innovative products.

This role of the Senior Software Engineer would be aim at quick problem solving , logical thinking, and application of programming techniques to design, build, and maintain code. Deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms is a must. In addition to the technical skill set, the candidate will be a self-starter, results-driven, and equipped with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

The Sr. Software Engineer is an individual contributor role, and this developer will lead development of several innovation projects. These projects will be instrumental in making an impact on Visa and the payments industry as a whole.

Responsibilities

• You’ll work with clients and partners in the Visa Innovation Center where required to create, build, and scale new product concepts
• You’ll work with clients and partners, such as financial institutions and large merchants, to bring to life concepts through coded prototypes and APIs sandboxes
• You’ll help our customers achieve their real goals by understanding their requirements and how they respond to their business needs.
• You will build partnerships with product management to make sure that the products we are building deliver real value.
• You’ll use technologies that include Java, REST, and Android, React, Node.js, NoSQL, Docker and more.
• You will analyze business requirements and architect a solution that is robust and scalable along with providing technical documentation of solution.
• You have the work and academic experience that will demonstrate proficiency and ease with programming languages, code quality initiatives, scripting languages and operating systems.
• Your DNA would include following and creating software best practices and processes.
• You coach and mentor your team members and help them grow professionally.
• You’ll lead meeting and discussions with cross-functional and non-technical teams.
• You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and above all, you are a team player!

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline
• Expert level skills in Java / JavaScript / C# / C++ /
• Experience in UI frameworks such as React/Angular/Backbone
• In-depth knowledge of data structures implementation and optimization
• Expert level skills in multi-threading, concurrency, and error-handling
• Expert level skills in implementing design patterns (singleton, facade, factory, observer etc.)
• Experience building enterprise scale web services (Restful), and their scalability, resiliency, and availability
• Experience building application frameworks or reusable components
• Experience in network programming (Sockets) to build service self-healing
• Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, application design, and implementing large components for enterprise projects
• Knowledge of HTTP Protocol, REST, XML, J2EE, AJAX a plus
• Experience of mobile application building on Android/iOS is a plus
• Good to have working experience on AR/VR applications

Desired qualifications

• Experience in building ODATA compliant REST services
• Experience in language features such as lambda expressions, generics, and streams
• Experience in working on cryptography and Bluetooth based transmission protocols
• Experience in IoT, NFC, VR, AR, machine learning / data science, NLP
• Experience in payments tech industry