Senior Software Architect - GenAI-Driven Backend Systems

About Us

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.



Job Description

VCS Platform & Acceptance is part of the Visa Commercial Solutions technology organization. The team is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing Virtual Cards, payables, and acceptance commercial platforms that drive incremental revenue and support the continued growth of Commercial B2B product lines.

We are looking for versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As part of a multi-functional development team, you will help invent, design, build, test, and support software products that serve a truly global customer base. While building innovative payment technology, you will help shape the digital future of commercial money movement.

As a Software Engineer - Senior Consultant Level, you will play a key role in the team’s ongoing transformation by leading the design and delivery of highly scalable, secure, reliable, resilient, and user-friendly applications. You will provide senior technical leadership across architecture, engineering standards, implementation quality, and platform evolution.

This role demands deep expertise in API platforms, backend services, microservices, event-driven systems, and enterprise-grade scalable application architecture.

A GenAI-first attitude is mandatory. You are expected to be a model user of GenAI, LLMs, coding copilots, and agentic engineering approaches, and to help shape how engineering teams use these capabilities to improve software quality, speed, innovation, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, and implement new systems, enhancements, and modifications to existing software aligned with design specifications, security standards, and engineering best practices
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of services and application stacks
• Use Gen AI for day-to-day activities
• Lead the architecture and implementation of REST APIs, gRPC services, backend platforms, microservices, and event-driven systems
• Design, implement, and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant web-based applications
• Deliver software that conforms to high standards of security, quality, performance, resiliency, and compliance
• Interact with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality products and services that meet business requirements
• Independently create multiple design artifacts and present designs to team members and stakeholders
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms
• Collaborate with Technical Product Managers to break down solutions into smaller achievable tasks
• Support test engineers and operations teams in troubleshooting, defect research, and issue root cause analysis
• Contribute to efficient development process pipelines through best-in-class CI/CD tools
• Identify opportunities for product innovation and improvements to standards, processes, and best practices
• Mentor junior developers to ensure timely delivery of quality code
• Communicate status, issues, and risks effectively and timely
• Take responsibility across SDLC roles including development, testing, CI/CD automation, and ensuring production stability

• 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…