Lead Software Engineer
Visa
Lead Software Engineer
Visa
Runs a global network for digital payments
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
Job Summary:
The Lead Software Engineer is the highest individual contributor technical role responsible for setting technical vision, driving architectural excellence, and solving the most complex technical challengesfor Visa's Acceptance Solutions platform, focusing on transaction processing platform. This role combines deep technicalexpertise(40-50% hands-on) with strategic leadership, cross-organizational influence, and pioneering adoption of Generative AI and agentic AI at scale.
Design and build scalable, secure, and resilient software systems that support Visa’s Acceptance Solutions platform and global transaction processing capabilities.
Set technical direction and influence architectural standards for distributed systems, platform reliability, scalability, security, and reusability.
Lead the development of mission-critical transaction processing solutions that support high-volume payment flows, event-driven processing, and real-time data movement.
Collaborate with product, architecture, security, operations, and engineering teams to create design artifacts and deliver best-in-class software solutions.
Solve complex technical challenges across cloud-native platforms, distributed architecture, event streaming, API security, and payment lifecycle management.
Actively contribute to product quality, platform modernization, value-added services, and new business flows through hands-on development and technical leadership.
Leverage modern technologies, including cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Kafka, and AI-enabled engineering practices, to advance Visa’s next-generation payment capabilities.
Mentor engineers, influence technical leaders, and promote a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, continuous learning, and measurable business impact.
Lead the architecture, design, development, enhancement, and modernization of software solutions for Visa’s Acceptance Solutions transaction processing platform.
Develop secure, scalable, high-quality code that complies with design specifications, engineering standards, and security best practices.
Provide hands-on technical leadership for complex software development efforts while influencing technical direction across multiple teams.
Drive design and code reviews to ensure solutions meet expectations for performance, resiliency, observability, scalability, security, and maintainability.
Identify and implement automation opportunities across development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and operational workflows.
Partner with product owners, architects, security teams, operations teams, and engineering stakeholders to align technical solutions with customer and business objectives.
Use production telemetry, system analysis, and operational insights to recommend improvements to architecture, code, processes, and platform reliability.
Support agile delivery, release readiness, on-call rotations, incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement of production systems.
Guide the adoption of modern engineering practices, including cloud-native development, event-driven architecture, secure integration patterns, and AI-enabled development workflows.
Mentor senior engineers, develop technical talent, and contribute to reusable frameworks, architecture documentation, and engineering best practices.
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
15+ years of experience with progressive technical leadership responsibilities.
Information for US Applicants
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 protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.Visa runs a global payment network that connects banks, merchants and consumers so card purchases and money transfers move between financial institutions. Its VisaNet system handles authorization, clearing and settlement, linking the bank behind a buyer's card with the bank that accepts a merchant's payment. The company earns fees from payment activity, transaction processing and international transactions, and sells fraud prevention tools, payment software and consulting services to businesses. Banks and other partners issue Visa branded cards and use its technology to build their own payment products. Visa traces its roots to a Bank of America card program launched in 1958 and is headquartered in San Francisco.
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