Chief Software Engineer

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.

As the Chief Software Engineer on the core Payment Processing development team within the Acceptance Solutions organization, you will provide technical leadership, foster innovation, set engineering excellence standards, and collaborate with business teams to develop cutting-edge products and solutions. You will offer strategic architectural guidance to engineering teams while overseeing the execution of large and complex global initiatives. Your responsibilities include designing and coding systems that influence 40% of the global population, as well as shaping Visa's internal standards for scalability, security, and reliability, all of it driven by AI innovations. Additionally, you will work with various stakeholders and internal teams to understand project dependencies and delivery vision while ensuring engineering excellence and maintaining five-nines availability.

Essential Functions:

• Architect, design, and code highly scalable and reliable transaction processing systems.
• Define technical strategy for the payment processing platform that aligns with the product vision and accelerates innovation and time to market.
• Provide technology leadership and motivate a high performing team of engineers to set clear priorities to achieve product/technology goals and KPIs.
• Actively contribute to critical projects by developing key modules, core frameworks and automation tools.
• Leverage AI/ML technologies in bringing productivity across the SDLC phases and develop innovative business solutions and products.
• Establish engineering best practices for application development, testing, deployment and monitoring.
• Collaborate with security, privacy, and governance teams to ensure that the products developed comply with relevant policies, standards, and regulations.
• Collaborate with business partners to convert product requirements into high quality solutions that comply with all non-functional requirements, including security, scalability, availability, and reliability.
• Effectively communicate technical strategy and engineering solutions to leadership and business stakeholders
• Coach/Mentor others through sessions such as brown bags and tech talks.
• Adhere to Visa's Leadership Principles by promoting collaboration, encouraging constructive debate, and executing with excellence.
• Communicates and adapt presentations to a wide range of audiences regarding goals, planning process, project initiatives, team innovation and results.
• Bring new ideas and innovation to the organization, provide recommendations to leadership to increase effectiveness of the team, and support adoption of new technologies and tools

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

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
• Extensive experience in designing, developing, and deploying scalable, resilient and secure distributed applications.
• Software engineering experience in both on-premises and cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience in AI, particularly Generative AI, is highly preferred.
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (Java, Python).
• Hands-on experience in software product development utilizing technologies, tools, and frameworks such as Tomcat, TC Server, VertX, Spring, GIT/Stash, Sonar, etc.
• Experience in developing event-driven applications using technologies like Kafka and MQ.
• Proficiency in SQL and an understanding of other database technologies such as NoSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, etc.
• Experience with containerization technologies and orchestration tools, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with distributed caching technologies such as Hazelcast and Redis.
• Experience in deployment and distribution lifecycle with automated and scalable CI/CD tools, including Jenkins and Maven.
• Continuous delivery and DevOps experience, including infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing, and security implementation and practices.
• Experience in API development using REST, SOAP,JSON, and XML.
• Strong understanding of API security, security standards, data encryption, and HSMs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and presentation skills, and proven ability to influence and communicate effectively.
• Highly driven, resourceful, and results oriented.
• Previous experience in payments is preferred.

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 a new hire into this position is 184,100.00 to 267,050.00 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.