Senior Software Engineer

Job description

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 Full Stack 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 end-to-end software solutions that reach a truly global customer base.

You'll work across the entire technology stack, from user interfaces to backend services and databases, while building components of powerful payment technology that shape 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 including generative AI and agentic AI systems to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, and automated solutions that enhance developer productivity and customer experiences
• Build and integrate AI-powered tools and agents that streamline development workflows, automate routine tasks, and enable intelligent decision-making within payment processing systems
• 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, JavaScript, 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
• Full Stack Builder: Experience building and deploying complete end-to-end solutions including modern web applications, APIs, microservices, and database design 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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience
• 3 or more years of relevant work experience in software development
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages across the stack, such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Python, or similar
• Strong experience with both front-end technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, ReactJS, Angular) and back-end frameworks (e.g., Spring, )
• Hands-on experience with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, NoSQL) and data modeling
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing, developing, and consuming RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints
• Experience with full stack test automation frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Cucumber, Karate)
• Exposure to Test Driven Development (TDD) or Behavior Driven Development (BDD) across frontend and backend
• Familiarity with API documentation tools (e.g., Swagger/OpenAPI) and frontend documentation practices
• Exposure to cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, or DevOps fundamentals
• Self-motivated, quick learner with attention to detail
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
• Experience building AI Agent for software development is considered a plus

Additional Information

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.

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