Staff 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

The Opportunity

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be expected to operate with a high degree of independence, responsible not only for building high‑quality software, but also for influencing design decisions, engineering standards, and best practices across the team.

You will work on complex, distributed systems and automation services that are foundational to Visa’s infrastructure reliability. You are expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy, translate ambiguous requirements into robust technical solutions, and provide guidance to other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring.

The Work You’ll Do

Ownership & Design

• Take end‑to‑end ownership of features and services, from design and implementation through deployment and lifecycle support.
• Contribute to and influence system architecture, API design, and technology choices, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and resilient.
• Participate actively in code reviews and design discussions, providing thoughtful feedback and driving alignment with engineering best practices.

Software Development

• Design, develop, test, and maintain high‑volume, low‑latency, highly available applications using modern full‑stack technologies.
• Implement RESTful services and backend components using Python‑based frameworks (e.g., Flask, RESTPlus) and integrate with internal and third‑party APIs.
• Build and evolve responsive, production‑grade user interfaces using modern frontend frameworks such as Angular or React.
• Develop software that adheres to Visa’s security, quality, performance, and maintainability standards.

Delivery & Operations

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automated delivery processes using tools such as Git, Jenkins, and containerized environments (Docker).
• Support production systems, participate in incident resolution, and contribute to continuous improvements in stability and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with peers across Global Network Engineering and Visa Technology teams to ensure smooth integration and delivery.
• Proactively identify technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and reliability gaps, and drive solutions to address them.

Collaboration & Influence

• Work closely with Product, Architecture, SRE, Security, and QA teams to translate business and platform requirements into technical solutions.
• Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers through pairing, reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Influence team‑level and org‑level engineering best practices, including observability, resiliency, and automation.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the 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:

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.

5+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience with an advanced degree.

Proven ability to independently deliver production‑quality software in a complex, enterprise environment.

Experience working on highly available infrastructure‑focused systems.

Prior experience mentoring engineers or acting as a technical lead on projects.

Familiarity with observability, resiliency engineering, and automation in distributed systems.

The Skills You Bring

Strong hands‑on experience in full‑stack development, including:

Backend: Python, REST APIs, JSON, Flask/RESTPlus

Frontend: JavaScript, HTML5, Angular or React

Experience working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and data security concepts.

Solid understanding of software design patterns, data structures, and object‑oriented design principles.

Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and Agile development practices.

Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex systems and debug production issues.

Experience integrating third‑party APIs.

Experience integrating AI/ML or Generative AI capabilities into production software systems

Experience using AI‑powered tools to improve coding, debugging, testing.

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.