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Staff Software Engineer – Java/J2EE (Hybrid/Onsite)

Visa
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Feb 2026
💰 $210,300/yr($131,600/yr$210,300/yr)

About the role

Company Description

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.

Job Description

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 Staff 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.   

Essential Functions:

  • Design, develop and implement features, enhancements, Webservices, Microservices, tools and utilities in a client facing environment on a platform that is highly scalable and resilient on the N-tier architecture in Agile development life cycle.
  • Acquire comprehensive knowledge of the Visa Dispute business domain, contribute to requirement analysis, evaluate various coding alternatives, and participate in scoping and sizing activities.
  • Perform third and fourth level support in production and client certification environment with root cause analysis including identifying, developing, and providing solutions for production issues.
  • Analyze and identify the root cause of performance issues and propose changes to designs and new enhancements for resiliency and scalability.
  • Participate in technological proof-of-concepts, embrace new technologies and frameworks and in code review processes to ensure quality and consistency
  • Develop scripts, No SQL and SQL for detailed analysis and solutions in data processing and AI/ML models creation and tuning.
  • Design, Develop, Document and maintain programs, tools and utilities for automation and enhanced monitoring.
  • Participate in production implementations and on call, providing all necessary support to ensure successful resolution of issues.
  • Analyze and identify the drift in Feature, Model and Data of the ML Models with proposals for retuning or fine tuning.
  • Use various tools and leverage production statistics to improve the system and process improvements for VROL program, working with Architecture and SME groups.
  • Produce and maintain technical documentation to support development and operational initiatives.
  • Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, SME's, DevOps, Security, Business, Performance, Automation, and Operations teams to ensure alignment across initiatives.
  • Strive for excellence and innovation in service delivery, seize opportunities and consistently think and act ahead of the curve to drive successHelp drive continuous improvement around processes and provide input to new initiatives.

Qualifications

Basic 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. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
•7-10 years of work experience and a Bachelor’s degree or 6 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 years of experience with a PhD in Computer Science or similar field in the financial services industry.
• Experience in software engineering and designs for highly scalable and always-on distributed systems with  expertise in developing and supporting complex solutions for business enterprise applications including batch and data processing with security.

• Demonstrated experience in delivering complex projects from concept to deployment.
• Knowledge of card processing/transaction processing and payment domain is a plus.
• Proven expertise developing softw

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