# Staff Software Engineer

**Company**: Visa
**Location**: Bellevue, WA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $134,500.00 to $214,700.00 USD per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Staff Software Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for designing, building, and evolving secure, scalable solutions for Visa's Acceptance Solutions platform, focusing on transaction processing platforms.

This hands-on role (60-75% coding) provides technical direction across architecture, API strategy, integration patterns, and engineering standards while leveraging Generative AI and agentic AI to improve productivity and quality.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

**Responsibilities**

- Design, build, and evolve secure, scalable solutions for Visa's Acceptance Solutions platform

- Provide technical direction across architecture, API strategy, integration patterns, and engineering standards

- Leverage Generative AI and agentic AI to improve productivity and quality

**Requirements**

- 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

- Proficiency in modern programming languages (Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, or Kotlin)

- Experience with system design, architecture, debugging, troubleshooting, and production support

- Ability to use AI-assisted tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, agentic AI) and establish safe AI practices

**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: $134,500.00 to $214,700.00 USD per year

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Python
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Go
- Kotlin
- system design
- architecture
- debugging
- troubleshooting
- production support
- AI-assisted tools

### Nice to have
- software engineering
- technology delivery
- technical leadership
- API-first design
- REST
- OpenAPI
- JSON
- webhooks
- event-driven architecture
- cloud platforms
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- infrastructure as code
- payment event processing
- transaction lifecycle
- Payments clearing
- payment message formats
- event streaming platforms
- Kafka
- authentication/authorization
- observability
- reliability
- automated testing
- contract testing
- performance testing
- API certification
- product development
- regulated industries
- Generative AI
- agentic AI workflows
- RAG
- intelligent automation
- mentoring engineers
- engineering standards
- PCI-DSS
- SOX
- financial services compliance requirements
- file transfer protocols
- batch processing
- payment network protocols
- event correlation
- transaction matching
- retry mechanisms
- dead-letter queues
- event replay
- data serialization formats
- exactly-once processing
- idempotency patterns

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