Staff SW Engineer

Company Description 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: As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be part of our Shared Service & Cloud Enablement portfolio team within Acceptance Solutions org to help design, enhance and build our transactional platform in an agile development environment. You will play part of Shared Services team tasked with multiple projects ranging from building full stack development of real‑time transactional services, REST services API, Container based services to highly functional, secure, scalable and resilient real time payment systems. You will work on development, unit testing, code reviews and regular check‑ins to continuous integration that will become part of your DNA. You will see the code written and moved to production within just a few days to a week, to then be used by a huge customer base including Facebook, Nike, FedEx, Apple, State Farm, to name a few. If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit for both of us. 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: 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, C++, 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. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager. 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. Preferred Qualifications: Strong experience in building large scale enterprise level backend applications using Java, Spring, REST API, RDBMS, NoSQL, Vert.x, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Jenkins. Good analytics & problem‑solving skills with a solid foundation in algorithms, data structures and common design patterns. Experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery, Container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes). Proficiency with Observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, OpenSearch, M3DB, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, FluentBit, Elastic Search). Experience with TDD using JUNIT/functional automation testing and tools. Proven experience delivering complex software projects and solutions effectively through Agile methodologies on a regular release cadence. Strong leadership skills, with a proven ability to think big and challenge the status quo. Excellent problem‑solving and debugging skills. Hands‑on experience in AI, particularly Generative AI, is highly preferred. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to work well in a team and independently. GCP or AWS Cloud certifications are a plus. 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. Additional Information 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 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. U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for this position is 146,200.00 to 233,700 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr