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From the employer's careers site First seen 1 Nov 2026 · Still live on 5 Nov 2026

Software Engineer

Visa Foster City, CA Hybrid mid full-time

Salary

$131,900 to $ 204,000 USD per year

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Description

Visa's Technology Organisation is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world's most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.

As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, developing, and operating software products and services that help Visa manage a broad portfolio of critical risk programs efficiently at scale. Your work will accelerate Visa business into new markets and sectors and empower and enable multiple product and business groups across Visa to deliver innovations faster.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Partner with product owners and tech leads to gather and refine requirements to create roadmap, execute and adapt the roadmap in the fast-paced environment.
  • Contribute to Visa's enterprise-wide risk platform that empowers employees to drive organisational and product improvements through collaborative idea sharing and working on the entire lifecycle from ideation to delivery.
  • Participate in design and architecture creation, project planning, and reviews of design, code, and user experience.
  • Have end-2-end ownership of features across design, coding, test automation, observability, reliability, performance, deployment, and operations while following standards and best practices.
  • Respond to incidents during on-call rotations, troubleshoot complex issues, and assist in incident response and resolution.
  • Continuously learn and bring new ideas to improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance.
  • Use and integrate GenAI and agents in day-to-day activities across SDLC and devOps to improve ideation to production delivery cycle time and quality.

Qualifications

  • Basic Qualifications:

+ 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience. + Experience in developing web-based applications. + Experience in one or more of the high-level programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, C#, Golang). + Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB). + Experience with using GenAI, copilots, and agentic software for improving agility, quality, and security in SDLC

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • REST/GraphQL/gRPC API design
  • event-driven architectures
  • message queues
  • container-based technologies
  • building enterprise-scale web services
  • AI-powered product capabilities

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Visa/job/US---Foster-City-CA/Sr-SW-Engineer-1_REF089231W

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