Visa
Sr. SW Engineer (Full Stack)
US - Austin, TX · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$112k-$173kDetected 2 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptJavaReactNode.jsSpringFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewPostgreSQLMySQLVector DatabasesDockerKubernetesCI/CDRESTOAuthLLMsRAGAgentic AIAI OrchestrationDesign SystemsAgileTest AutomationManual Testing
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odds of building a lasting career here
59Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role100
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level III)83
Fits your clock70
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
Level I$95,8881 entry
Level II$119,6422 entries
Level III$143,3953 entries
Level IV$167,1494 entries
$7,542 more — $119,642 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $119,642 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Apply AI-assisted engineering tools across the development lifecycle - code generation, refactoring, test authoring, code review, debugging, and documentation - and help the team raise its baseline productivity and quality through better AI workflows.
- Contribute to project estimation and escalate issues that may cause delays.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain full stack features across React/JavaScript/TypeScript front ends and Java/Spring Boot and Node.js back-end services, owning delivery from requirement through production.
- Build and ship production solutions using agentic AI - LLM-backed services, tool-calling and multi-step agents, MCP servers and clients, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, prompt and context engineering, evaluation harnesses, and guardrails for safety, cost, and latency.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to interpret requirements for project components and incorporate feedback into future designs or solution fixes.
- Translate business requirements by verifying assumptions and escalating potential design issues to appropriate stakeholders.
- Participate in system design and architecture for platform components and AI-enabled services, refining code plans and contributing to design documentation.
- Design, build, and consume secure, well-documented REST APIs and microservices used by internal teams and external developer clients.
- Develop, implement, and maintain code for products, services, or components, applying coding patterns, guidelines, and best practices.
- Create test plans and configure testing procedures - including unit, integration, automation, and evaluation testing for AI-driven features - to identify and resolve defects for multiple features.
- Respond to support requests during on-call rotations, troubleshooting issues and deploying fixes.
- Leverage and build knowledge of software developer tools to create, debug, and maintain code for components.
Requirements
- 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience
- Hands-on experience with React, Spring Boot, Node.js, relational databases (e.g. MySQL, Postgres), and Linux.
- Basic Qualifications
- Hands-on professional experience building full stack applications with Java and JavaScript.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience building and shipping solutions using agentic AI - including LLM APIs, tool/function calling, agent frameworks, or MCP-based integrations - with examples you can walk through in detail.
- Experience designing, building, and testing enterprise-scale web services and REST APIs.
- Ability to work effectively across Development, Quality Assurance (QA), automation testing, and production support functions, adapting to evolving project and business needs.
Nice to have
- 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)
- Experience in technologies/software systems or a directly related field (minimum four years).
- Depth in back-end engineering - Spring Boot microservices, Spring Security, JPA/Hibernate, asynchronous and event-driven patterns, caching, and API versioning.
- Demonstrated experience leveraging Generative AI and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development velocity, code quality, testing effectiveness, and engineering productivity.
- Experience with microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience working in CI/CD environments and related tooling.
- Experience in debugging and troubleshooting software issues.
- Experience in code review and applying coding standards.
Skills
- Apply debugging and observability tools to verify assumptions and proactively flag issues before they occur.
Compensation
- For roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $112,100.00 to $ 173,400.00 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.
- Visa will accept applications for this role until at least 11-30-2026
- Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world.
- Progress starts with you.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
This listing is sourced directly from Visa's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.