Sr 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

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 dedicated, 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 innovative 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

Developing, testing, documenting and installing software programs. Develop software applications and programs leveraging micro services architecture using Java, Sprint boot, Kafka, relational databases including MySQL and NoSQL databases like OpenSearch. Apply appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the software development life cycle to build and release software applications and products. Perform code reviews to verify changes meet development requirements, staging code and deploying in non-production environments. Contribute to authoring large project deployment procedures. Design multi-tier solutions and developing large applications independently. Build and operate highly scalable and high performing applications. Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager. Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.
• Knowledge of and ability to develop front-end code (e.g. HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Angular or ReactJS) in support of product development.
• At least 1 year of experience with user interface design.
• At least 1 year of experience developing back-end (e.g. Python, Java, C++, PHP) code using Micro services architecture, in support of product development.
• At least 1 year of experience developing Rest APIs.
• At least 1 year of experience working on any relational databases like MySQL, DB2, etc.
• At least 6 months of experience working on any NoSQL databases like HBase, MongoDB, Apache Solr, OpenSearch etc.
• At least 6 months of experience using GenAI tools like Github Copilot, Claude etc for software development.

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.
• Go-Getter: Executes decisively, drives clarity, and thrives in ambiguity.
• 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, reliability and scalability. Hands-on technologist who delivers high-impact systems from prototype to production.
• Entrepreneurial: Innovates beyond defined scope, with ownership and bias for action.
• Learner: Constant drive to learn technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Collaborates well with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams.
• Lead by Example: Demonstrates accountability, openness, and excellence in technical leadership.
• Execute with Excellence: Sets a high bar for quality, collaboration, and delivery across multi-disciplinary engineering teams.

U.S. Applicants Only

The estimated salary range for this position is $123,000.00 to $190,900.00 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.

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 protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Key skills/competency

• Software Engineering
• Java
• Spring Boot
• Microservices
• Kafka
• MySQL
• NoSQL
• API Development
• Agile Methodologies
• Distributed Systems