# Staff Software Engineer focused on Front-End/UI **Company**: Visa **Location**: Bellevue, WA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: staff **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $141,100.00 to $226,000.00 USD per year **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Visa/job/US---Bellevue-WA/Staff-SW-Engineer---Front-End---UI_REF089844W?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/staff-software-engineer-focused-on-front-end-ui-03b9397d-5bb/ ## Description As a Staff Software Engineer focused on Front-End/UI at Visa, you will help shape and build modern digital experiences that are intuitive, accessible, performant, secure, and scalable. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an engineer who enjoys solving complex UI challenges while influencing front-end architecture and engineering standards across teams. You will spend approximately 60-75% of your time coding and working hands-on with modern front-end technologies. You will build reusable UI components, improve application performance, establish scalable development patterns, and partner closely with UX/UI designers, product managers, back-end engineers, QA, and other engineering teams to turn product ideas and user experiences into high-quality fintech solutions. You will also serve as a front-end technical leader, helping raise engineering quality through architecture guidance, design and code reviews, mentoring, and adoption of modern tools and practices, including AI-assisted development. **Key Responsibilities** - Design and develop sophisticated web-based user interfaces and front-end applications that are responsive, accessible, performant, secure, and scalable. - Provide technical leadership for front-end architecture, including component architecture, application structure, state management, API integration, performance, and reusable design patterns. - Partner closely with UX/UI designers and product managers to translate user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and product requirements into polished digital experiences. - Build and maintain reusable UI components, shared front-end libraries, and scalable design-system patterns that create consistent experiences across products. - Write clean, maintainable, reusable, and well-tested front-end code while establishing engineering standards and development best practices. - Lead technical design and code reviews and mentor engineers on UI architecture, component design, accessibility, performance, testing, and maintainability. - Diagnose and resolve complex front-end issues involving browser behavior, rendering, state management, API interactions, responsive design, performance, and cross-browser compatibility. - Develop and improve front-end testing strategies, including unit, component, integration, accessibility, and end-to-end testing. - Champion web accessibility and inclusive design practices to deliver effective experiences across devices and user abilities. - Use application monitoring, performance metrics, and user-experience signals to improve page performance, reliability, usability, and customer experience. - Build and enhance developer tooling, frameworks, and automation that improve front-end developer productivity, testing, deployment, and code quality. - Collaborate with back-end and platform engineering teams to define API contracts, data flows, error handling, authentication, and integration patterns. - Evaluate emerging front-end technologies and recommend technical solutions that improve engineering effectiveness and product performance. - Serve as a front-end engineering subject-matter expert, influencing architecture and engineering practices across teams without requiring direct people-management responsibility. - Participate in incident response and on-call support as needed, troubleshooting complex issues and helping drive resolution. **Qualifications** - 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree, or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree such as a Master's, MBA, JD, or MD, or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience. - Experience in software engineering with a strong focus on front-end or user interface development. - Hands-on experience developing modern web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript and a modern front-end framework such as React, Angular, or Vue. - Experience with HTML, CSS, modern browser technologies, and responsive web development. - Experience building reusable, component-based user interfaces for production applications. - Experience integrating front-end applications with RESTful APIs and/or service-based architectures. - Experience with front-end testing practices and frameworks, including unit, component, integration, and/or end-to-end testing. - Experience debugging complex front-end applications and optimizing performance, reliability, and usability. - Experience collaborating with UX/UI Design, Product Management, back-end engineering, and QA teams. - Experience leading technical design and code reviews and influencing engineering standards across development teams. **Benefits** - Comprehensive benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program. **Salary** - Estimated salary range: $141,100.00 to $226,000.00 USD per year. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - JavaScript - TypeScript - React - Angular - Vue - HTML - CSS - responsive web development - RESTful APIs - front-end testing practices ### Nice to have - Deep hands-on experience with React and TypeScript - Experience designing and implementing large-scale front-end architectures and complex enterprise web applications - Experience building or contributing to design systems, shared component libraries, and reusable UI frameworks --- Source: [Apply at visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Visa/job/US---Bellevue-WA/Staff-SW-Engineer---Front-End---UI_REF089844W?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)