Overview

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 Staff Software Engineers are senior technical leaders and system thinkers who define, architect, and drive the delivery of complex, large-scale software systems. In this role, engineers spend approximately 50-65% of their time in hands-on technical work - coding, architecting, prototyping, and reviewing - while dedicating the remainder totechnical leadership, cross-functional alignment, and engineering excellence initiatives. Staff Engineers work withmodern tools and platforms (including AI-assisted development, cloud-native services, and automation frameworks) todeliver secure, scalable, and high-quality technology solutions that create measurable business impact in the fintechsector. They operate as force multipliers - partnering with engineering managers, product leads, architects, datascientists, compliance, and operations to shape technical strategy, resolve ambiguity, and raise the engineering baracross teams and disciplines. All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with and advocate for emerging technologies such asGenerative AI tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to accelerate engineering velocity, improve code quality,and support everyday technical decision-making. Key Responsibilities: Collaborate with stakeholders to determine requirements for product components and incorporate feedback into future designs or solutions. Translate functional requirements into system designs and communicate component interactions, ensuring alignment with business needs and timelines. Design and develop product components, refine code plans, and lead design reviews to ensure completeness and adherence to requirements. Contribute to project estimation, considering delivery costs and escalating issues that may cause delays. Lead by example in creating, implementing, and maintaining extensible, reusable code, and drive code quality through metrics and best practices. Apply debugging tools to resolve moderately complex issues and identify opportunities for automation across products. Lead code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards and providing feedback to team members. Create complex test plans, identify test gaps, and proactively address defects to minimize customer impact. Leverage data analysis and monitoring standards to identify patterns and defects in all environments. Respond to incidents during on-call rotations, troubleshoot complex issues, and assist in incident response and resolution. Build, enhance, and identify new developer tools to support programs and applications. Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to trends and technical solutions to improve product performance and recommend resources to other engineers. 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. 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's