# Software Development Engineer **Company**: Visa **Location**: Austin, TX **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $133,300.00 to $213,400.00 USD per year **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Visa/job/US---Austin-TX/Staff-Software-Engineer_REF089743W?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_98fbd464-89b ## Description Visa is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join their team. As a Software Development Engineer at Visa, you will be an expert problem-solver and builder who designs, implements, and improves software applications and systems. You will spend approximately 60–75% of your time coding, working hands-on with code, data, and modern tools (including AI-assisted development, cloud services, and automation frameworks) to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality technology solutions that drive business outcomes in the fintech sector. 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. 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., Master's, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience. - Experience in software engineering or a directly related field. - Experience in developing and/or implementing web-based or mobile applications. - Experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports. - Experience in technologies/software systems or a directly related field. - Experience in creating and maintaining test plans and executing testing procedures. - Experience in debugging and troubleshooting software issues. - Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver technical solutions. - Experience in code review and applying coding standards. - Experience in building or enhancing developer tools. - Practical exposure to AI/ML or GenAI solutions, with the ability to assess use cases, integration approaches, limitations, risks, and production-readiness. Technical Skills: - Java: Advanced proficiency in core Java, concurrency, collections, JVM fundamentals, performance tuning, and modern language features. - Backend Engineering: Strong experience with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, JPA/Hibernate, REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems. - Front-End Engineering: Good knowledge of modern web development using Angular or React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, responsive design, component-based architecture, state management, accessibility, and secure integration with REST APIs. - Database Engineering: Strong knowledge of relational databases, SQL, data modeling, schema design, indexing, query optimization, transactions, and performance tuning, with working experience in NoSQL databases, caching, and Java data-access frameworks such as JPA/Hibernate. - Data and Messaging: Experience with relational databases, SQL, NoSQL technologies, caching, and messaging platforms such as Kafka or NATS. - Cloud-Native Delivery: Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, infrastructure environments, and CI/CD tools such as Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, or equivalent platforms. - Security: Knowledge of secure coding, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, API security, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and enterprise security standards. - Observability: Experience with application logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry. - Testing: Strong experience with JUnit, Mockito, automated integration testing, code-quality tools, and test-driven development. - AI/GenAI: Good understanding of LLMs, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases, RAG, model APIs, AI agents, evaluation, and responsible-AI practices. - AI Integration: Ability to integrate AI services through APIs or SDKs; familiarity with frameworks such as Spring AI, LangChain4j, LangChain, or equivalent is desirable. Benefits: - Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program ## Skills ### Required - Java - Spring Boot - Spring Framework - JPA/Hibernate - REST APIs - microservices - distributed systems - Angular - React - TypeScript - JavaScript - HTML5 - CSS3 - relational databases - SQL - NoSQL technologies - caching - messaging platforms - Docker - Kubernetes - Linux - CI/CD tools - secure coding - OAuth 2.0 - OIDC - API security - secrets management - vulnerability remediation - enterprise security standards - application logging - metrics - tracing - alerting - JUnit - Mockito - automated integration testing - code-quality tools - test-driven development - LLMs - prompt engineering - embeddings - vector databases - RAG - model APIs - AI agents - evaluation - responsible-AI practices ### Nice to have - 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree - Experience building high-volume, highly available, consumer- or client-facing platforms - Hands-on exposure to public cloud platforms and managed AI services - Experience prototyping or delivering RAG, semantic search, conversational AI, or agentic workflow solutions - Knowledge of model evaluation, hallucination mitigation, AI observability, token and infrastructure cost management, and privacy controls - Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across multiple teams --- Source: [Apply at visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Visa/job/US---Austin-TX/Staff-Software-Engineer_REF089743W?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)