Staff SW Engineer (6-9 years of experience in Java / Python, Spring, Kafka, Gen AI and Agentic AI)

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.

Are you passionate about conceptualizing, nurturing, developing, and proving new ideas and developing them into new solutions? Would you like to help create the next major innovation in and around the payment landscape pioneering and leveraging the most advanced devices, hardware and software in the world, anything, and everything in and around world’s largest payment ecosystem?

We’re looking for a seasoned individual to drive game-changing innovation in and around Visa’s partner eco-system for Asia Pacific, and specifically India. You should have experience technically leading and mentoring small multi-skilled squads of 3-4 engineers capable of rapid prototyping of new ideas as well as scale these to commercial solutions. You will be at the forefront of strategic partnerships, breakthrough technologies, new ideas, hackathons, demos, and rapid prototyping. You will work closely with business development teams, partners, and internal product teams and cross- leverage engineering talent internally and externally.

Responsibilities

·       Be at the heart of developing new ideas into demo-able products, and ultimately to commercial product.

·       Work alongside and collaborate with UX, engineering, and partner teams to deliver products, features, services, and tools.

·       Drive rapid prototyping cycles from technical requirements, software designs, programming, debugging, and optimization.

·       Explore and innovate new technologies, features, and tools.

·       Consult on a regular basis with leadership to align expectations and deliverables.

·       Be scrappy and work with the small team to the fullest to work on multiple parallel POCs and incubation efforts.

·       Able to scale the successful pilots to full commercial solutions.

·       Use stubs as needed to simulate capabilities lighting up soon.

·       Work collaboratively across team boundaries to share common infrastructure and functional capabilities. Provide feedback into core product teams to influence their roadmap and strategy

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

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:
•Passion for innovation, new ideas, quick prototyping, hackathons etc.
•Prior work exploring and innovating new IP, genres, and product experiences
•Professional experience in ideation and incubation which has led to shipping products
•Multi-disciplinary skills and experience in ideation, software design, programming, debugging, and optimization.
•Strong written and verbal communication skills.
•Self-motivated and drive for excellence.
•Have an open-minded approach to development strategy and approaches
•Capable of building culture for innovation.
•Technical hands-on skills, ideally in multiple technology stacks for web development, APIs and on diverse platforms.
•8+ years of software engineering experience.
•2+ years of experience in technical leadership/mentoring roles.
•MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
Bonus Qualifications:
•Prior experience working in a start-up or at VC firms in a “Resident Entrepreneur” capacity.
•Financial services and/or payments processing industry experience is a plus.
•Patents and other proofs of past success in creating IP.
•Mobile application development experience is a plus.
•Working experience in Spring eco-system, Kafka and MySQL.
•Hands-on and up to date with Gen AI and Agentic AI technologies and space

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.