Want to professionalize your AI skills, pivot to an AI role and increase your salary?
Master AI Engineering with the most practical and comprehensive LLM Development certifications at Towards AI Academy.

Visa

Staff Software Engineer

Visa

Published 02 Apr 2026
Austin, TX, USA
132K - 210K USD Annual
Full Time

Share this job

Role Highlights

Languages used

HTML
C++
Java
JavaScript
CSS
HTML5
SQL
C#

Key skills

Generative AI
Integrations
Distributed Systems
CI
Software Design
Web Services
Cyber Security
CD
Data
B2C
Testing
Agile
B2B
ECommerce
Debugging
MBA
PhD
Optimization
Frontend
NOSQL
Architecture
Microservices
Devops
Scrum

Tools, Libraries and Frameworks

Rest
Spring
Docker
Kubernetes
Git
Jira
Jenkins
Angular
React

Description

Visa Staff Software Engineer \\\| SmartRecruiters Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox . Staff Software Engineer Full-time Job Family Group: Engineering and Technology 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 Visas Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the worlds 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 youll 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 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 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 Visas 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. This role does not offer relocation or sponsorship support now or in the future. Qualifications Basic Qualifications: 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors 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: Multi-disciplinary skills and experience in ideation, software design, programming, debugging, and optimization. Experience of building REST based web services & web applications using Java and Spring framework Experience writing unit and integration test cases Solid understanding of Object-Oriented design and programming concepts Experience with front-end technologies, including JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 and third-party libraries such as ReactJS, Angular, jQuery Experience with databases (SQL or NoSQL) 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, embrace business opportunities, and improve operational efficiency. Experience in working on Microservices and containerization such as Docker and Kubernetes. Ability to work quickly in an agile environment, part of an on-call rotation duty among other engineers. Experience with GIT, Jira and Jenkins. Participate in Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery pipeline Excellent communications skills (verbal and written). 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. Innovation: Ability to think creatively about how to apply GenAI to improve and innovate within the payment technology space. 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. Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code. U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for this position is 131,600.00 to 210,300.00 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. I'm interested I'm interestedPrivacy NoticeCookies Settings I'm interested Refer a friend Posted by Cementry Carter share this job Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via email Share on Xing Share on WeChat Other jobs at Visa Staff Software Engineer II (AI Agent/ Agentic Focus)) Bellevue, WA Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant level Foster City, CA Software Engineer - Transformation Austin, TX Show all jobs Share to WeChat × Copy the link and open WeChat to share. Copy to clipboard Open WeChat Share to WeChat × Use Scan QR Code in WeChat and click ··· to share. Staff Software Engineer Austin, TX Full-time I'm interested I'm interested

Required Qualifications and Skills

Candidates require a Bachelor's Degree with at least 5 years of relevant work experience, or an Advanced Degree with at least 2 years of work experience. A PhD may be considered with 0 years of work experience. Alternatively, 8+ years of relevant work experience is acceptable. Preferred qualifications include multi-disciplinary skills in ideation, software design, programming, debugging, and optimization. Experience with building REST-based web services and web applications using Java and the Spring framework is desired. Familiarity with front-end technologies like JavaScript, CSS3, and HTML5, as well as databases (SQL or NoSQL), is also beneficial. Experience with Generative AI technologies and their applications, along with an understanding of the agentic framework, is a plus.

Disclaimer

Disclaimer: Job and company description information and some of the data fields may have been generated via GPT-4 summarisation and could contain inaccuracies. The full external job listing link should always be relied on for authoritative information.

About the company

Visa

Size

25017

Website

visa.com

HQ

Foster City, US

Public/Private

Public Company

Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payment transactions between various parties across over 200 countries and territories each year. Their mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. By including everyone everywhere, Visa believes in uplifting everyone everywhere. Working with Visa means contributing to a culture that embraces identity and purpose, ensuring that the work has a direct impact on billions of people globally by unlocking financial access and enabling the future of money movement.

Share

Share this job

Related jobs

Data Science
Data Engineer
Big Data
Project Management
USA
Full Time
Machine Learning
Data Science
Vector Database
Computer Science
USA
Full Time
Integrations
Manager
AI
Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA
Full Time