# Chief Software Engineer

**Company**: Visa
**Location**: Austin, TX
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $195,800.00 to $313,500.00 USD per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Visa is seeking a highly technical, hands-on Chief Software Engineer to help lead the next generation of AI-enabled commercial payments and money movement platforms within Commercial and Money Movement Solutions (CMS).

This leader will architect and build large-scale cloud-native systems, drive technical direction across teams, and apply GenAI to both product innovation and engineering productivity.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the architecture, design, and development of highly scalable, secure, API-centric distributed systems supporting B2B payables, commercial solutions, and money movement products.

- Remain hands-on in building core platform components, services, and engineering patterns rather than operating solely at the strategy layer.

- Drive technical leadership across teams by establishing software development standards, reusable frameworks, integration patterns, and platform best practices.

- Partner closely with product, architecture, and engineering leaders to shape the technical roadmap for next-generation CMS solutions.

- Build and evolve cloud-native services with strong emphasis on scalability, resilience, observability, security, and maintainability.

- Lead the adoption of GenAI capabilities across the organization, including AI-native product functionality, intelligent automation, and developer productivity use cases.

- Design and implement agentic and workflow-driven systems that leverage modern AI capabilities in practical, production-ready environments.

- Mentor senior engineers and help raise the technical bar across the organization through design leadership, code quality, and engineering excellence.

- Influence enterprise-level technology choices, deployment patterns, and platform strategy in alignment with Visa engineering principles.

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

- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including deep hands-on experience building large-scale backend or platform systems.

- Proven expertise in distributed systems design, cloud-native architecture, and highly scalable service development.

- Strong experience building production-grade platforms and services rather than only designing them at a conceptual level.

- Demonstrated hands-on experience with GenAI, including AI-native applications, workflow orchestration, intelligent automation, or agent-based systems.

- Strong understanding of modern service architectures, including microservices, APIs, containers, caching, security, and platform integration patterns.

- Ability to influence technical direction across teams while remaining close to implementation and execution.

- Experience using AI to improve engineering productivity, product capabilities, or platform intelligence.

- Strong engineering judgment across reliability, latency, scale, maintainability, and security.

- Experience with Java and modern backend frameworks such as Spring; however, strong system-building expertise is more important than any single programming language.

- Experience with REST, gRPC, shared services, container technologies, API gateways, DevOps, observability, and infrastructure automation.

- Background in payments, fintech, money movement, or other high-scale transaction environments is a plus.

- Experience working in environments where compliance, security, and global scale are critical.

Benefits:

- Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program

## Skills

### Required
- Cloud-native architecture
- Distributed systems design
- GenAI
- Microservices
- API design
- Java
- Spring

### Nice to have
- REST
- gRPC
- Container technologies
- API gateways
- DevOps
- Observability
- Infrastructure automation

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