Visa
Lead SW Engineer
US - Foster City, CA, USA
Sponsorship not specified$192k-$308kDetected 18 hours ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptJavaReactAngularDistributed SystemsCode ReviewAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesCI/CDRESTKafkaMachine LearningData VisualizationLLMsComplianceDesign SystemsAccessibilityTCP/IPLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- This role will help shape how Visa Acceptance Platform captures, enriches, indexes, searches, analyzes, secures, visualizes, and operationalizes transaction and platform data at scale.
- The candidate should be comfortable working across payments, analytics, search, user experience, security, cloud-native platforms, AI/ML-enabled engineering practices, and mission-critical production environments.
- Provide technical leadership for modern, intuitive, secure, and performant user interfaces that enable search, analytics, reporting, operational insights, and data-driven workflows for internal and external users.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the hands-on technical lead for Payment Processing Platform across the Visa Acceptance Platform, providing technical direction across architecture, design, implementation, scalability, resiliency, and operational readiness.
- Design and evolve secure, reliable, and scalable search, indexing, analytics, enrichment, and data-processing capabilities that support high-volume payment acceptance use cases.
- Remain actively hands-on with architecture, design reviews, code reviews, proof-of-concepts, performance analysis, debugging, technical troubleshooting, and production-readiness decisions on a day-to-day basis.
- Lead technical design for event correlation, transaction matching, retry handling, dead-letter queues, replay, idempotency, exactly-once processing considerations, and high-throughput data movement.
- Partner with application, data, platform, product, security, privacy, risk, governance, and operations teams to deliver solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements, including security, latency, availability, compliance, and maintainability.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads through design reviews, architecture discussions, hands-on problem solving, technical deep dives, brown bag sessions, and production troubleshooting.
- Communicate technical strategy, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and recommendations clearly to executive leaders, product partners, architecture forums, and engineering teams.
- Drive engineering improvements that strengthen reliability, performance, observability, maintainability, developer productivity, and operational excellence across Search and Analytics capabilities.
- The Acceptance Solutions Product Development team is responsible for a portfolio of products that diversify Visa's revenue, differentiate our network, and deliver value-added solutions across payment rails.
Requirements
- Basic Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 7 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.
Nice to have
- 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD.
- Demonstrated track record as a hands-on technical leader with organization-wide or platform-wide impact.
- Proven ability to solve complex technical problems that span multiple domains, systems, teams, and production environments.
- Experience setting technical direction, influencing architecture and strategy across teams, and aligning technical decisions with product and business objectives.
- Expert proficiency in modern programming languages, API-first development, system design, software architecture, testing, deployment, debugging, performance tuning, and operational troubleshooting.
- Mastery of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, Kubernetes, containerized deployment models, and distributed architecture patterns.
- Deep experience with event-driven systems, event streaming platforms such as Kafka, and high-throughput data processing.
- Experience designing search, indexing, analytics, enrichment, or data-processing capabilities for large-scale transactional or operational systems.
Compensation
- The estimated salary range for this position is $192,300.00 to $ 307,600.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable).
Company info
- 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
- Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world.
- Progress starts with you.
- We are seeking a hands-on technical leader to lead the architecture, design, and evolution of Search and Analytics capabilities across the Visa Acceptance Platform.
Visa & Work Authorization
- This role will help shape how Visa Acceptance Platform captures, enriches, indexes, searches, analyzes, secures, visualizes, and operationalizes transaction and platform data at scale.
- Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
- Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
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