Staff Software Engineer
About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
Job Description
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 Opportunity
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.
Essential Functions
- Works with product owners to gather and refine requirements across CMS products, considering existing tools and solutions
- Develops and designs moderately advanced solutions that are robust, scalable, and integrate AI capabilities with Visa's technical ecosystem
- Provides domain expertise on AI/ML technologies and their application to engineering and customer problems
- Plays a significant role in the development and delivery of new features within products from end-to-end
- Contributes to technical decision-making for AI adoption and standards
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
- AI Experience: Familiarity with agentic AI, LLMs, AI frameworks, or machine learning applications
- 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
Qualifications
- Basic Qualifications: 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors 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
- Preferred Qualifications: Experience with AI frameworks, LLMs, or generative AI (Claude, GPT, LangChain, etc.), Knowledge of AI-powered development tools or building AI-enabled applications, Experience applying AI to engineering challenges or customer-facing features, Understanding of commercial payments, money movement, B2B payables, or payment processing, Experience with cloud platforms, microservices, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), Knowledge of API design, integration patterns, and distributed systems, Familiarity with observability, monitoring, or DevOps practices
Pay & Benefits
The estimated salary range for this position is $146,200.00 to $ 233,700.00 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.