SW Engineer - job 1 of 37

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Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Visa’s Technology Organization 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.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity: 

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale.  As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.   

The Work itself: 

• Implement and maintain CI pipeline templates and shared libraries that standardize builds across teams.

• Build backend services in Java 17/Spring framework to orchestrate pipelines, collect build metadata, and expose APIs for pipeline and promotion actions.

• Develop internal UI modules in AngularJS/Angular for self-service pipeline creation, build monitoring, and image promotion controls.

• Model and manage build state and audit data in MongoDB/MySQL ensure traceability from commit to promoted image.

• Extend Activiti/BPMN workflows for gated promotions, approvals, and quality checks.

• Contribute to Kafka-based events for build status, artifact metadata, and promotion notifications.

• Improve CI execution performance (caching strategies, parallelization, test flakiness reduction) and developer ergonomics. 

Essential Functions:

• Deliver features end-to-end (API, data layer, UI) for pipeline creation, build orchestration, and image promotions.

• Write automated tests (unit, integration, contract) and harden secure coding practices.

• Monitor build SLIs/SLOs (success rate, duration, queue time) and drive continuous improvements.

• Document pipeline patterns, promotion policies, and runbooks for users.

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale

• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions

• Tech Expertise:

• Strong Java, preferably Java 17 and Spring familiarity with Angular.

• Solid understanding of CI concepts: pipeline as code, caching, artifact/versioning, test automation, code coverage, quality gates.

• Container build expertise: Dockerfiles, multi-stage builds, SBOMs, image scanning/signing, and DTR workflows.

• Experience with MongoDB and MySQL schema design for auditability and performance.

• Exposure to workflow engines Activiti, BPMN, Kafka events, and secure software supply chain practices.

• Interest in Go and willingness to contribute to a Java→Go service migration.

• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

GenAI

• Practical LLM integration in backend services (Java/Spring or Go): secure API usage, prompt design, function/tool calling, and structured JSON outputs.
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): embeddings, vector stores (e.g., OpenSearch/Pinecone/pgvector), chunking strategies, and relevance tuning; plus basic evaluation of quality, latency, and cost.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Basic Qualifications
•Bachelors degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
•2 or more years of work experience
•You are a Full stack developer, and you have experience with REST APIs, JSON, Microservices.
•Java 11+ (ideally 17), Spring Boot framework experience is a must.
•Rich Front-End development experience with Angular/React JS, Node.JS, and Material Design is desirable.
•Working experience with Kafka, Redis, or NoSQL datastores is required.
•Hands on experience with database technologies like PostgreSQL, MySQL.
•Good to have experience with back-end technologies such as Golang, Python - Flask, Java frameworks like Spring, Spring Boot.
•You have strong experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar.
•Strong oral and written communications skills are required.
•Working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release.
•Exceptional troubleshooting and analytical skills.
•Ability to multitask and handle multiple competing priorities with minimal direction from management.
•Must work well within a team in a fast-paced high-performance organization.
•We count on your curiosity and creativity, to want to understand the requirements and our processes and want to come up with creative solutions.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 84,600.00 to 119,650.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.