Software Engineer, Intern – Summer , Austin

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

As a Software Engineer Intern, you will be placed in one of the technology organizations at Visa and specific assignments will depend on upon your skills sets, interest, and team needs.

We are seeking Software Engineer interns across our Technology organization. As an intern, you will take on meaningful work, engage in out-of-the-box problem solving, and participate in global case challenges and impactful initiatives. You will get the chance to work with multiple teams, systems, and products through a wide variety of data sources. From technology to business, we are looking for people who can innovate, collaborate and bring Visa into the next level of a rapidly evolving digital marketplace.

During the internship, you will work on one or more hands-on projects with the team. Our summer internship also equips you with social and professional networking events and developmental workshops, designed to provide you the resources and training to have an impactful summer.

Some examples of previous summer intern projects:

• Self-serve deployment of Kafka clusters using Docker and Kubernetes with auto scale up capability
• Creating a natural language Chatbot for searching CDISI knowledge base
• Developing a prototype that would automate payments at gas stations
• Automating process for removing duplicate compromised account numbers using low latency algorithms
• Improving the usage of Visa Checkout across all mobile and web devices
• Developing testing tools to identify errors in internal systems
• Creating visual monitoring tools to uncover transaction errors
• Analyze, design, code and unit test software solutions and enhancements for an application that applies business logic and routes digital currency of global transactions
• Develop a robust app factory to be used to create hundreds of mobile banking applications for iOS and Android with a single click
• Implementation of a single development lifecycle, from Analysis and Design, Build, QA, Security, and Deployment. Begin to learn best and secure coding practices and standards

• Students pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, CIS/MIS, Cybersecurity, Business or a related field, with a graduation date in December 2026‑August 2027
• Strong communications skills, specifically, the absence of repeated grammatical or typographical errors, clear and concise written and spoken communications that demonstrate professional judgment.

• Proficiency in at least one programming language or technology including, but not limited, to Java, C/C++, C#, .NET, python, Java script, HTML
• Experience with Write utilities / automation tools using Selenium, Java, REST, Python, Groovy, and more
• Exposure to containerized microservices in Kubernetes environments (e.g., class projects, labs, internships).
• Demonstrated adaptability and willingness to learn new skills and technologies.
• Familiarity with some of the following (preferred but not required):
• Kubernetes (especially kind cluster)
• Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, or ArgoCD
• Chainsaw, Prometheus, Splunk, Click House
• Open search/Elasticsearch
• Familiarity with software testing principles
• Experience or knowledge in working with both RDBMS (preferably MySQL) and No
  
  SQL databases (preferably Cassandra)
• Experience in developing Agentic…