Sr. SW Engineer

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

Software Development Engineers are expert problem-solvers and builders who design, implement, and improve software applications and systems. In this role, engineers spend approximately 60–75% of their time coding, working hands-on with code, data, and modern tools (including AI-assisted development, cloud services, and automation frameworks) to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality technology solutions that drive business outcomes in the fintech sector. They collaborate with cross-functional teams – product managers, designers, data scientists, QA, operations, and compliance – to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions, all while adhering to best practices, security standards, and regulatory requirements.

All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work.

You’re an Individual. We’re the team for you. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaborate with stakeholders to interpret requirements for project components and incorporate feedback into future designs or solution fixes.

Translate business requirements by verifying assumptions and escalating potential design issues to appropriate stakeholders.

Participate in system design and architecture, refining code plans and contributing to design documentation.

Contribute to project estimation and escalate issues that may cause delays.

Develop, implement, and maintain code for products, services, or components, applying coding patterns, guidelines, and best practices.

Apply debugging tools to verify assumptions and proactively flag issues before they occur.

Participate in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed and address routine pull requests.

Create test plans and configure testing procedures to identify and resolve defects for multiple features.

Respond to support requests during on-call rotations, troubleshooting issues and deploying fixes under guidance.

Leverage and build knowledge of software developer tools to create, debug, and maintain code for components.

Remain current in skills by investing time in training resources to improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance.

Utilize GenAI tools to enhance software development processes & Productivity, including code generation, optimization, and testing.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI solutions (LLMs/MCPs) into existing systems and workflows.

Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Education/Experience:

Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science/Computer Engineering or other related fields with a minimum of 4+ years of overall experience in application development.

Basic Qualifications:

4+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2+ years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters) or 1+ year of work experience with a Ph.D

Minimum of 4+ years of overall work experience in Java related tech stack

Proficient in Java/J2EE/REST technologies and frameworks like Spring Framework, Spring MVC, SpringBoot, JPA, Hibernate

Experience in API Development for producers and consumers adhering to all standards for security and reliability

Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability

Experience in database such as Oracle, MYSQL, PostgreSQL and any of the NOSQL

Experience in Microservice architecture, Containers Orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker etc.,)

Strong understanding of Agentic AI, Generative AI models and tools/LLMs, such as GPT, Llama, and Anthropic etc.,

Familiarity with GenAI tools such as Claude Code, Cline, GitHub copilot, chatGPT, Copilot for Microsoft 365, and other relevant platforms.

Experience in software configuration management with tools development, automation (GIT, Maven, Artifactory, Jenkins, CI/CD etc.,)

Experience in logging tools such as Splunk, ClickHouse, Humio, etc., for Monitoring and Issue triaging

Experience with system design and tech stack upgrade to build highly available, secure, maintainable, performing, and scalable applications.

Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to details

Ability to write clean, coherent code following established coding guidelines.

Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and effective communication skills (both written and verbal)

Experience developing as part of Agile/Scrum team.

Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and timeliness of deliverables.