Chief Software Engineer at Visa

Austin, Texas, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

27 May, 26

Salary

313500.0

Posted On

26 Feb, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Architecture, Design Documents, Software Development Patterns, Best Practices, Mentoring, API-Centric, Java, Spring, Hibernate, Angular, JavaScript, HTML5/CSS3, REST, gRPC, Generative AI, DevOps

Industry

IT Services and IT Consulting

Description

Company Description Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments 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. Job Description Company Description Visa is a global leader in payments and technology, facilitating over 259 billion secure transactions annually across more than 200 countries and territories, connecting consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities. 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. Job Description Visa’s Technology Organization is a collaborative community of problem solvers and innovators dedicated to reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of individuals. CMS (Commercial and Money Movement Solutions) represents a key strategic growth area for Visa, as we seek to digitize commercial payments and money movement flows, supporting financial institutions, fintechs and fintech enablers, corporates and governments. CMS delivers value through: Commercial solutions: B2B credential solutions and supporting data, analytics and services for small businesses, mid-market, large corporates and governments Money movement: Send/receive funds domestically and cross-border to any card, account or wallet globally — with the features that are most relevant for your use case. As a Chief Software engineer for the VISA CMS team, you will provide technology leadership to build the next generation of B2B Payables and Visa Commercial Solutions Hub products. You will get the opportunity to work on complex distributed systems and lead massive scale projects centered on new payment flows while collaborating with product and architecture partners. You will drive technical expertise for strategic projects aligned to business strategy and contribute to GenAI innovation across the organization. Essential Functions: Drives the architecture for key cross team / cross product development projects (via architecture/design documents and developing code key modules). Establishes software development patterns and best practices via examples and shipping code. Ensures that all relevant project teams follow a common set of principles and patterns and utilize a standard set of technology frameworks and libraries. Provides leadership across the engineering community to ensure solutions are built in alignment with platform principles and standards. Mentors and builds world-class high-performing engineering teams. Applies architecture best practices that helps increase execution velocity. Contributes to key GenAI initiatives for developer productivity and product innovation. Develops architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric and global. Influences technology selection for the enterprise. Defines deployment topology by working with peers across the technology organization. Optimizes use of Visa’s Platforms & Solutions. Demonstrates thought leadership through presentations and teaching across Visa. Contributes to key Visa and CyberSource technology initiatives. This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs. Qualifications Basic Qualifications: •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. Preferred Qualifications: •15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience • Experience in Java language, Spring, Hibernate, Angular, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, and HTML5/ CSS3 • Expert in web service standards and related patterns (REST, gRPC) • Advanced knowledge of AI / Generative AI / Data Science. • Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development of Shared Services and framework including Micro Services, Container Technologies, Caching, API gateway and Security. • Possesses a deep understanding of benefits/drawbacks of different integration patterns. • Continuous delivery and Dev Ops experience - infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing and security implementation and practices. • A background in the payment domain is a plus. Additional Information Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department. Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time. Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers. Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law. Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code. U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for this position is $195,800 to $313,500 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program. Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Responsibilities

The Chief Software Engineer will drive the architecture for key cross-team development projects, establishing software development patterns and best practices through code and examples. This role involves providing leadership across the engineering community, mentoring teams, and contributing to GenAI innovation for developer productivity and product innovation.