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 Software Engineering leader 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 powerful 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:

• Bring in the best architecture and build highly available and scalable applications.

• Lead the team to create a positive impact to the product, process and people involved.

• Hands on technical leader who can mentor, guide, motivate and bring the team together for a purpose.

• Work with the stake holders and bring in synergy.

• Be a thought leader, able to grasp the things in big picture view and apply leadership thought process to make this a reality.

• You’ll leverage on new technologies to build the next generation products.

• You’ll help our customers achieve their real goals by understanding requirements and how they respond to their business needs.

• Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to standards, best practices, and development methodologies.

• Contribute to development of product innovation.

• Embrace GenAI as enabler in all dimensions.

• Build working relationships with global and virtual teams on software development.

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

Basic Qualifications:
8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:
9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
BS or MS in computer science or related field
12+ years of Software Development Experience or a Master’s with 9+ years of Software Development Experience in designing, development and supporting large scale applications.
More than 3 years of leadership experience with direct people management.
In-depth understanding of agile principles. Demonstrate expertise in running Agile teams in an enterprise setting of 10+ member
Lead multiple scrum team members made up of both full-time employees and contractors
Deliver the product despite complex technical interdependencies with cross geographical teams
Provide technical leadership to product development team by participating in design, performing design reviews, code reviews and Quality engineering.
Build a culture of engineering excellence (quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.)
Partner with remote teams to ensure alignment across product development
Drive down technical debt and cost of operations/support
Manage the prioritization and delivery of enhancements and bugfixes on platform
Ensure the process for incident management, change management, problem management and quality management are followed
Hire, retain, grow and mentor a high-performing team of software engineers (Dev and QE)
Invest in the career development of direct reports
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 ( Java, Angular, React..)
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
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.

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.