Staff Software Engineer
Visa · Posted Oct 8
Digital payment technology platform and global payment card services corporation
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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. Software Development Engineers design, implement, and improve software applications and systems, spending roughly 60–75% of their time coding with modern tools including AI-assisted development, cloud services, and automation frameworks to deliver secure, scalable fintech solutions. This role collaborates with product managers, designers, data scientists, QA, operations, and compliance, and leads system design, code reviews, quality metrics, and on-call incident response.
What you will do
- Collaborate with stakeholders to determine requirements for product components and incorporate feedback into future designs or solutions.
- Translate functional requirements into system designs and communicate component interactions, ensuring alignment with business needs and timelines.
- Design and develop product components, refine code plans, and lead design reviews to ensure completeness and adherence to requirements.
- Contribute to project estimation, considering delivery costs and escalating issues that may cause delays.
- Lead by example in creating, implementing, and maintaining extensible, reusable code, and drive code quality through metrics and best practices.
- Apply debugging tools to resolve moderately complex issues and identify opportunities for automation across products.
- Lead code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards and providing feedback to team members.
- Create complex test plans, identify test gaps, and proactively address defects to minimize customer impact.
- Leverage data analysis and monitoring standards to identify patterns and defects in all environments.
- Respond to incidents during on-call rotations, troubleshoot complex issues, and assist in incident response and resolution.
- Build, enhance, and identify new developer tools to support programs and applications.
- Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to trends and technical solutions to improve product performance and recommend resources to other engineers.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 7+ 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
- 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.
- 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 in software engineering or a directly related field.
- Experience in developing and/or implementing web-based or mobile applications.
- Expertise in .NET as a development language. Experience in other languages such as C++, python etc. is a plus
- Development experience in building and using Microservices, specifically with HTTP, REST, JSON
- Ability to solve complex software development/design issues.
- Ability to write clean, coherent code following established coding guidelines.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL datastores such as MySQL, MongoDB, etc.
- Experience in code development using VSCode, JetBrains IntelliJ or any major Java IDE.
- Experience with GIT/Stash, Maven and Jenkins.
- Experience with streaming platform like Kafka.
- Experience in Docker, Kubernetes, HazelCast, Monitoring Tool like Prometheus to understand and able to quickly build and drive team to support future systems.
- Experience with tools development, automation (CI/CD, Auto Deployment, System Availability, etc.), logging and monitoring.
- Experience with using GENAI for development of business features and innovations.
- Experience with front-end technologies like Angular, React is a plus.
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum team.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and iterative software development lifecycle principles.
- Strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
- 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.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Visa
Visa Inc. is a multinational payment card services corporation that facilitates electronic funds transfers worldwide. The company empowers global commerce through its secure digital payment network, connecting consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 34100 employees
- Founded
- 1958-09-18
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $17.9B raised
- 2008-03-19IPO$17.9B
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Product and Strategy Officer
Group President, Global Markets
Vice Chair, Chief People and Corporate Affairs Officer
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