Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant level - job 1 of 11

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

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 Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Software Engineer at Visa, 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 with GenAI 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:

• Leverage relevant technical working knowledge to assess and understand project requirements.
• Contributes to the development and provides guidance on solution strategies to team members that improve the design and features across one or more projects, under minimal guidance.
• Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g.Python, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills product functional, technical and non functional requirements. 
• Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the customer experience across e-commerce products.
• Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.

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

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.

Basic Qualification
-8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s 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, OR 11+ years of relevant work
experience.

Preferred Qualification
-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
-Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, or related field.
-6-8 years of experience in software development with Java, Python and
Docker/Kubernetes
-Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, frameworks and design
patterns.
-Ability to design and implement scalable, resilient and maintainable systems
-Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar.
-Experience with public and/or private cloud platforms
-Experience with relational and NoSQL database systems
-Knowledge of big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark and Kafka
-Familiarity or experience with GenAI
-Data preprocessing, feature engineering, and exploratory data analysis to
prepare datasets for model training
-Familiarity with machine learning frameworks and libraries (e.g. TensorFlow,
PyTorch etc)
-Familiarity with data manipulation and analysis tools (e.g. pandas, NumPy)
-Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
-Break down complex projects into manageable tasks, establish MVP scope
and prioritize deliverables.
-Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment, collaborate with
cross-functional teams and manage stakeholder relationships
-Demonstrated leadership capability, including ability to mentor and guide junior
developers
-Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
-Strong written and verbal communication skills
-A curious nature with a strong desire to learn and grow
-Ability to learn from mistakes and apply lessons to future challenges.
-Willingness to listen and learn from colleagues to foster a culture of
continuous improvement.

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 a new hire into this position is 143,200 to 207,816 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.

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.