About this opportunity
Visa lists this Lead SW Engineer opportunity in austin, Texas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
About Us
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
Job Summary
We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive the architecture, design, and delivery of key platform capabilities within Visa's Intelligent Commerce ecosystem.
This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, APIs, and agent-driven commerce experiences, and focuses on building scalable systems that power merchant integrations and intelligent workflows. You will partner closely with Product and Architecture to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions while providing hands-on leadership to engineering teams.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you will lead design decisions, contribute to critical systems, and elevate engineering practices across the team.
Essential Function:
Lead the design and development of scalable backend services, APIs, and platform components supporting Intelligent Commerce use cases
Architect and build distributed, low-latency, highly available systems using modern cloud-native technologies
Partner with Product Managers to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
Drive end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives, from system design through production deployment
Contribute hands-on to coding, system design, debugging, and performance optimization
Apply and evolve microservices architecture patterns, API design standards, and engineering best practices
Improve developer productivity and platform capabilities, including CI/CD, observability, and system reliability
Mentor engineers within the team, helping raise the technical bar and support career growth
Lead cross-team initiatives within the platform and collaborate with partner teams to resolve dependencies and deliver integrated solutions
Identify opportunities for reuse, simplification, and improved system performance and cost efficiency
Support adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows to improve engineering velocity and quality
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
10 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree, OR
7 or more years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD), OR
4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR
13+ years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
12+ years of experience building and operating large-scale
distributed systems
Strong experience in Java and/or Python, microservices, and REST APIs
Proven experience designing and delivering cloud-native applications (Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD)
Strong expertise in system design, scalability, and high-availability architecture
Experience working closely with product and cross-functional partners to deliver complex systems
Exposure to AI-driven systems, intelligent platforms, or agent-based workflows
Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (React/Angular) is a plus
The Skills You Bring:
Technical Leadership: Leads system design and delivery of complex, high-impact initiatives
Architecture Depth: Strong experience designing scalable, distributed platform systems
Execution: Drives work from concept through production with accountability and ownership
Collaboration: Partners effectively with product, architecture, and engineering teams
Influence: Guides technical decisions and aligns stakeholders across teams
Mentorship: Develops engineers and elevates overall team capability
AI-Forward Thinking: Leverages modern tooling, including AI-assisted development practices
Why This Role
Build next-generation commerce platforms at global scale
Work on agent-based and intelligent systems shaping the future of payments
Directly impact merchant and consumer experiences
Operate in a high-visibility, high-impact engineering environment
U.S. Applicants Only
The estimated salary range for this positionis $173,100.00 to $ 276,800.00 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. 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 protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
Who can apply
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