Staff SW Engineer, Full-Stack
Company: Visa
Location: Austin
Posted on: February 19, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Description Job Description Company Description 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. Job Description 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 dedicated, 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 innovative payment technology,
you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of
monetary transactions. The Work itself: · 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, to
embrace business opportunities and or improve operational
efficiency. · Develop and implement unified control center and
monitoring tools to measure, monitor, and report on platform, data
availability, utilization, capacity trend, and overall health
metrics. · Formulate methods to enable consistent data loading and
optimize data operations. · Monitor health of platforms, generate
performance reports, and monitor and provide continuous
improvements. · Ensure on-time delivery of projects, production
support plans, and knowledge transfer for long-term supportability
of upgrades, enhancements, and deployments. · Understand usage
patterns and work load requirements of new projects. · Develop code
and mentor junior developers to ensure deliverables are on time,
within budget, and with good code quality. · Produce clear,
comprehensive, and well-organized technical documentation to
facilitate knowledge sharing across global teams. · Effectively
operate as part of a globally distributed team, embracing diverse
perspectives, time zones, and cultures to achieve organizational
goals. Essential Functions: § Develops and designs moderately
advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable,
considering integrations with other solutions across the internal
technical ecosystem. § Provides domain expertise on the development
of user documentation of solutions and implements standard
processes in user documentation. § Plays a significant role in the
development and delivery of new features within a product from
end-to-end. § Take responsibility for the end-to-end lifecycle of
platform products, including design, implementation, testing,
deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and ongoing support. 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, Python, Javascript, Shell PowerShell
scripting, Ansible Playbooks) § 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, GENAI technologies 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. 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 •6 or more years of work
experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant
experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or
up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD ?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,
GoLang, AnglarJS ?Experience writing unit and integration test
cases ?Solid understanding of Object-Oriented design and
programming concepts ?8 years of software engineering experience.
?2 years of experience in technical leadership and mentoring roles.
?MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent. •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.
•Develop and implement unified control center and monitoring tools
to measure, monitor, and report on platform data availability,
utilization, capacity trends, and overall health metrics.
•Formulate methods to enable consistent data loading and optimize
data operations. •Monitor the health of platforms, generate
performance reports, and provide continuous improvements. •Ensure
on-time delivery of projects, production support plans, and
knowledge transfer for the long-term supportability of upgrades,
enhancements, and deployments. •Understand usage patterns and
workload requirements of new projects. •Develop code and mentor
junior developers to ensure deliverables are on time, within
budget, and maintain good code quality. •Possess knowledge of and
the ability to use database software (e.g., applications, web-based
applications, information systems) to maintain, modify, and output
data. •Have knowledge of systems integration processes where
separately produced components or subsystems are combined, and
their interaction problems are addressed. •Understand data
structures, which consist of data organization, management, and
storage formats, enabling efficient access and modifications. This
includes a collection of data values, the relationships among them,
and the functions or operations that can be applied to the data.
•Experience in all phases of development - design, coding, testing,
debugging, deployment, and monitoring of applications is highly
preferred. •Security and Authentication standards and technologies,
including OAuth. •Flow diagramming and articulating the design or
understanding of the code flows. •Continuous Integration and
Continuous Delivery (CI-CD) processes. •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.
•Collaboration: Proven experience in working with cross-functional
teams to integrate GenAI solutions into existing systems. •Network
architecture, Load balancers, and Firewalls. 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 to $210,300 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.
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