Staff Software Engineer

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

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.

The Opportunity:

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

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability
• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads
• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
• Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance.
• Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements.
• Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
• Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.

The Skills You Bring :

• 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 one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)
• Builder : Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner : Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership : Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

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

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s 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, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

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

Hands on experience working as a Payment System SRE in managing cross platforms.

Excellent Python programming skills for automation requirement for repetitive dev-ops tasks

Person will be responsible to perform SRE and Engineering activities Payment platforms

Understanding of Linux, networking, CPU, memory and storage.

Knowledge on Java and Python is good to have.

Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

Knowledge on GenAI, LLM, AI Engineering is a plus.

Cross-team teamwork, build and maintain relationships with the customer teams, the user community, architects, and engineering teams, jointly work on key deliverables ensuring production scalability and stability

Effective Root cause analysis of major production incidents and developing learning documentation .

Plan and perform capacity expansion and upgrades in timely manner avoiding any scaling issues and bugs.

Automation of repetitive tasks to reduce manual effort and avoid Human errors.

Tune alerting and setup observability to proactively identify the issues and performance problems.

Work closely with L-3 teams in reviewing new use cases, cluster hardening techniques for building a robust and reliable platforms.

leverage Devops tools, disciplines( Incident, problem and change management) and standards in day to operations.

Core Skills (Some combination of:)

· 3+ years of experience with modern middleware technologies. These might include (Tomcat, Apache, Springboot, SQS, JBoss, IBM MQ, IBM DataPower, Hazelcast, Flink, Connect Direct, SSL)

· Understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible).

· Proficiency with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.), logging systems (ELK stack, Splunk), and tracing tools (Jaeger, Zipkin).

· Proven track record of automating complex tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reliability using Python, Go, Java, or similar.

Technical Areas You'll Grow In:

· Cloud & System Architecture: Design scalable, resilient systems across hybrid cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

· AI/ML Operations: Support and optimize ML model deployment pipelines and monitoring systems

· Observability & Performance: Master advanced monitoring, tracing, and performance optimization techniques

· Automation & Intelligence: Build smart alerting systems and automated remediation workflows

· Distributed Systems: Design and maintain globally distributed payment processing systems

What Makes You Thrive:

· You're energized by solving complex problems

· You believe in automation over manual processes

· You enjoy mentoring others and sharing knowledge

· You're comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change

· You value building reliable systems over quick fixes

Additional Information

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 138,500.00 to 200,700.00 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.

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.