Visa

Staff SW Engineer

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1 day ago
Foster City, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$157k - $251k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with product owners to gather requirements, shape roadmaps, and adapt execution across product teams.
  • Create architecture specifications and project plans, own implementation and validation, and lead or participate in design, code, and user experience reviews.
  • Contribute to Visa’s enterprise-wide risk platform across the full lifecycle from ideation through delivery.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, innovation advocacy, and continued learning.
  • Use GenAI, copilots, and agentic software across the SDLC and DevOps to improve delivery speed, quality, and security.
  • Build reusable code, developer tools, and product capabilities while using metrics and best practices to improve code quality and service reliability.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot complex issues, and assist with incident response and resolution.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of relevant experience with a bachelor’s degree, at least 2 years with an advanced degree, 0 years with a PhD, or at least 8 years of relevant experience.
  • Experience developing web-based applications.
  • Experience with one or more of Java, Python, C#, or Golang.
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, Cassandra, or MongoDB.
  • Experience using GenAI, copilots, and agentic software to improve SDLC agility, quality, and security.
  • Preferred: ability to provide technical leadership and make sound engineering and operational decisions.
  • Preferred: strong product mindset and customer focus with experience collaborating with product managers and team leads.
  • Preferred: experience architecting, building, deploying, and operating large-scale, highly available, fault-tolerant, elastic microservices in cloud-native environments.
  • Preferred: proficiency in GraphQL and gRPC API design, event-driven architectures, and message queues.
  • Preferred: experience with container-based technologies.
  • Preferred: experience building AI-powered product capabilities and integrating Governance, Risk, and Compliance platforms.

Benefits

  • Eligible benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, life insurance, paid time off, and a wellness program.
  • Visa requires at least three days in the office, with specific days confirmed by the hiring manager.
  • The position requires 5–10% travel.
  • Work hours vary according to department needs.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraC#GoGraphQLgRPCJavaMongoDBMySQLPythonSQL

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About Visa

10,000+ employees

Visa builds and operates a global digital payments network that connects consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments. It earns fees for processing card transactions and offering risk, data, and value‑added services through VisaNet and products like tokenization and tap‑to‑pay. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Visa is a public company (NYSE: V) serving clients in more than 200 countries and territories.

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