SW Engineer

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.

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. Visa's Platform as a Service team is responsible for building and maintaining Visa’s internal hosting cloud platform, enabling teams across the company to develop and launch shared platforms for various technologies with speed and reliability.

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 
• Responsible for the architecture, design, development, and implementation of software applications. 
• Evaluate and introduce technology tools and processes that enable Visa to develop products and solutions, to embrace business opportunities and/or improve operational efficiency.
• Develop and implement unified control center and monitoring tools to measure, monitor, and report on platform, data availability, utilization, capacity trend, and overall health metrics.
• Develop and design moderately advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable, considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem
• Take responsibility for the end-to-end lifecycle of platform products, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and ongoing support.

Essential Functions: 

• Supports relationship with product owners to gather and refine requirements for one product task, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions within a product.
• Begins to develop and design architect solutions, considering integrations with other platform solutions.
• Provides relevant knowledge on the development of user documentation of solutions and follows standard processes in user documentation.
• Plays a minor role in the development and delivery of new features within a product.  

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 
• 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 

This is a hybrid position. Expectations of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Have expertise of Core Java, JEE technologies, Web technologies, JavaScript and container-based technologies.
• Develop and maintain front-end code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) to support package and product development, including extending functionality. Apply strong user interface design principles and deliver UI/Web solutions using Angular, React, JavaScript, jQuery, and HTML/CSS technologies.
• Knowledge of and ability to develop back-end (e.g. Python, Java, C++, PHP) code in support of package and product development
• The ability to develop and use Application Program Interfaces (APIs) (using SOAP or REST, JSON and XML), a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications that specify how software components should interact and are used when programming graphical user interface (GUI) components.
• Knowledge of and the ability to use application server, database software (e.g., applications, web-based applications, information systems) to maintain, modify, and output data.
• Experience in configuring CI/CD pipelines using industry standard tools such as GIT, Jenkins, Maven etc is needed.
• Hands on experience in Version control using SVN, Git, Bitbucket.
• Working experience with open-source technologies like Prometheus, Grafana, caching, monitoring, and messaging (Ex: Kafka) software.
• Experience in designing and building automation solutions to automate manual business processes involving complex data
• Flavors of GenAI: Experience and understanding of Generative AI technologies and their applications.
• Agentic Framework: Understanding of the agentic framework and mindset for leveraging Generative AI

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.