Senior Software Engineer (3 - 6 years of exp in Java / Python + Gen AI)

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be part of our development team to help design, enhance and build our HR platform in an agile development environment, you will work independently with minimal insight to develop software that conforms to Visa’s high standards. As part of this self-driven team, you will have total ownership of the solutions we provide for our HR customers making availability, performance, security, and reliability critical to our success. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. You will play part of multiple teams tasked with multiple projects ranging from building Custom Workday reports and calculated fields, BIRT Layout designs, Studio Integrations, EIB inbound and outbound integrations to highly functional, secure, scalable, and resilient real time enhancements. You will work on unit testing, code reviews and regular check-ins to continuous integration that will become part of your DNA. You will see the code written and moved to production within just a few days, to then be used by all Visa employees. If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit for both of us.

Role Overview

As a Software Engineer in this team, you will:

• Strong technical communication skills along with effective collaboration skills
• Exceptional problem solving and time management skills and highly detail oriented
• Ability to lead effective meetings and briefings for internal and external representatives. Must often coordinate efforts between functional areas or members of an extended project team
• Create conceptual approach, technical analysis and plans for development, unit testing, deployment, and support activities
• Design, Code, document and implement new applications & as well as existing programs
• Develop code that complies with design specifications and meets security and best practices. Coding must adhere to all standards for security, be easily maintainable and have high system performance.
• Continuously experiment with Visa’s rich portfolio of Generative AI models (transformers, LLMs, GANs, VAEs, multimodal models) and cutting-edge AI tools for production and innovation.
• Deliver new features on a rapid cadence (every few days) with end-to-end accountability.
• Build high-performance, scalable APIs integrating with both documented and undocumented banking interfaces.
• Co-develop integrations / features side-by-side with GenAI agents to dramatically increase speed-to-market and code quality.
• Build working relationships with global and virtual teams on software development
• Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to standards and development methodologies.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.  ​

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field and at least 4-8 years of Software Development Experience or a Masters with at least 2-8 years of Software Development Experience.
• We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience of building innovative and scalable products.
• You understand the trade-offs of speed vs quality on technical decisions and look at problems from different angles.
• You also invest time in your own, and the team's development to build up your overall knowledge.
• Extensive experience working with Java, Node.js and JavaScript
• Experience with Generative AI: Understanding of transformers, GANs, VAEs, and other generative architectures.
• Application of NLP, multimodal AI, and AI-powered developer tools in production systems.
• Practical exposure to prompt engineering and tooling orchestration for AI agents in enterprise environments, ensuring reproducibility and compliance.
• Experience with cloud-native DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code
• Experience in agile product-centric environments with rapid iteration cycles.
• Operational excellence & incident response experience.
• Proven experience working with technologies such as XML, XSLT, XPATH, SOA, SOAP, OAuth 2.0, Report-as-a-Service, REST Web Services and Web technologies
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel and SQL programming, C#, .NET with Visual Studio, TFS, HTML and JavaScript, SFTP and encryption preferred
• Working experience on JIRA tool and Agile methodology.
• Experience working with Azure Logic Apps will be an added advantage
• Experience utilizing CI/CD tools such as Bitbucket, TFS, GitHub, Jenkins, SVN, etc..
• Experience working/communicating effectively with diverse business and IT staff in multiple locations and in a multinational environment is very strongly preferred
• Proven experience in eliciting and elaborating business requirements, drafting system design specifications, and developing technical solutions

Additional Information

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.