SW Engineer

Position: Staff SW Engineer
About UsVisa 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 We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer to help design and deliver key platform capabilities within Visa’s Intelligent Commerce ecosystem.

This role focuses on building scalable backend services, APIs, and platform components that power merchant integrations and intelligent commerce experiences. You will work closely with engineers, product managers, and architects to develop high-quality solutions while contributing hands-on throughout the software development lifecycle.

This is a hands-on technical role requiring strong software engineering fundamentals, system design experience, and a passion for building reliable, scalable systems.

Essential Functions:

Design and develop scalable backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities supporting Intelligent Commerce products

Build cloud-native applications using modern microservices architectures

Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to architecture decisions within your domain

Translate business and product requirements into robust technical implementations

Deliver high-quality software through coding, testing, debugging, and performance optimization

Contribute to system reliability, scalability, observability, and operational excellence

Support CI/CD pipelines and development productivity improvements

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated solutions

Perform code reviews and uphold engineering best practices

Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical skill development across the team Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering efficiency and quality.

Why This Role:

Build innovative commerce platforms at global scale

Work on next-generation AI-powered commerce experiences

Influence technical decisions while remaining deeply hands-onGrow into broader technical leadership opportunities

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days 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:

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.​8+ years of experience building scalable distributed systems

Strong proficiency in Java and/or Python

Experience with microservices, REST APIs, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD Knowledge of cloud-native application development

Experience designing and supporting production systems

Exposure to AI-enabled systems, intelligent platforms, or large-scale commerce experiences

Familiarity with React or Angular is a plus Skills You Bring:

Strong software engineering and coding expertise

Solid system design and troubleshooting skills

Ability to deliver features independently

Strong collaboration and communication skills

Ownership mindset and operational excellence

Passion for mentoring peers and…