Chief SW Engineer

Job Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payment 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.

• Define and drive the overall technical strategy and architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals while accelerating innovation and time to market.
• Architect, design, and code highly scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems and transaction processing platforms.
• Lead the adoption of Generative AI and Agentic AI to boost developer productivity by 10X, leveraging these technologies to build innovative business solutions and products.
• Establish and promote best practices for software development, including CI/CD automation and Dev Ops, to improve efficiency and quality across the SSDLC.
• Oversee cloud first application development and optimization on AWS, Azure, or GCP to ensure solutions are resilient, scalable, cost‑effective, and secure.
• Actively contribute to critical projects by developing key modules, core frameworks, automation tools, and proof‑of‑concepts to validate emerging ideas and technologies.
• Provide technology leadership and motivate high‑performing engineering teams, setting clear priorities to achieve product and technology KPIs.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with security, privacy, governance, and business partners to deliver compliant, scalable, and reliable solutions that meet all non‑functional requirements.
• Communicate technical strategy and engineering solutions effectively to diverse stakeholders, including executives and business units.
• Mentor and coach senior engineers and engineering managers, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous learning through brown bags, tech talks, and one‑on‑one sessions.
• Implement rigorous application development, testing, deployment, and monitoring practices to uphold architectural excellence and reliability standards.
• Adhere to Visa’s Leadership Principles by promoting collaboration, acting as owner, and executing with excellence.

• 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience.

• 15+ years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience.
• Technical Expertise: 15+ years in software engineering with a strong background in architecting large‑scale, distributed systems. Proficiency in languages like Java, Python, or GoLang, and frameworks such as Spring, Node.js, React. Experience with RESTful and gRPC APIs, microservices, and event‑driven systems.
• Security Expertise:
  Strong understanding of API security, data encryption, and Hardware Security Modules (HSMs). Experience in building secure applications and implementing security‑first practices.
• Database
  
  Skills:
  
  Proficiency in SQL and No
  
  SQL databases (e.g., MSSQL, Mongo
  
  DB). Experience with distributed caching technologies like Redis.
• Generative AI & Agentic AI:
  Proven experience leveraging Generative AI and Agentic AI to drive 10X productivity improvements and product innovation. Familiarity with integrating AI solutions into existing platforms.
• Cloud & Dev Ops:
  Hands‑on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP. Strong understanding of Dev Ops practices, CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
• SSDLC Automation:
  Demonstrated ability to automate SSDLC phases to improve efficiency and quality. Experience with automated testing frameworks, code quality tools, and delivery…