Staff Software Engineer - GenAI

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

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.
• Experience in software engineering or a directly related field.
• Experience in developing and/or implementing web-based or mobile applications.
• Experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Experience in technologies/software systems or a directly related field.
• Experience in creating and maintaining test plans and executing testing procedures.
• Experience in debugging and troubleshooting software issues.
• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver technical solutions.
• Experience in code review and applying coding standards.
• Preferred Qualifications: 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's 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.
• Experience designing and building Generative AI systems beyond simple prompt usage, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
• Experience integrating LLMs into production systems, including prompt orchestration, response evaluation, and handling hallucinations or grounding issues.
• Proven ability to build end-to-end GenAI features, from data ingestion and backend services to APIs and downstream consumers (UI, services, or internal tools).
• Experience working with container-based technologies.
• Experience building and testing enterprise-scale web services.
• Experience in product development.
• Experience working on client-facing project or technical teams.

Pay

The estimated salary range for this position is $131,600 to $210,300 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable).

Schedule

This position will vary based on the needs of the department. Travel requirements are 5-10% of the time. Mental/Physical Requirements include sitting, standing, communicating in person and by telephone, frequent use of standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.