# Lead Software Engineer

Hiring organization: [Visa Inc.](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/visa-inc)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/2093960f-4fd9-4af3-8fa2-dc7055819595

Listed on Visa Inc.'s own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Principal
- Location: Bellevue, WA
- Salary: 173100 – 276800 USD per year

## Summary

This is a principal-level individual contributor role leading the technical vision and architecture for Visa's payment transaction processing platform. The position combines significant hands-on coding (40-50%) with cross-organizational technical leadership, mentoring, and pioneering adoption of AI practices across distributed systems handling billions of transactions.

_Our summary, not Visa Inc.'s wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, JSON, JSON Web Token (JWT), Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, PCI DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)

## Required

- 10+ years relevant experience with Bachelor's degree, or 7+ years with Master's/MBA/JD/MD, or 4+ years with PhD, or 13+ years total experience
- Deep expertise designing and scaling mission-critical distributed systems
- Expert proficiency in modern programming languages and system design
- Mastery of cloud platforms and Kubernetes
- Deep experience with event-driven systems and high-throughput data processing
- Experience setting technical direction and influencing strategy across teams
- Track record mentoring senior engineers
- Hands-on software development and architecture for transaction processing platforms

## Nice to have

- 12+ years experience with Bachelor's degree, or 8-10 years with advanced degree, or 6+ years with PhD
- 15+ years with progressive technical leadership responsibilities
- Demonstrated organization-wide technical impact
- Recognized expertise in distributed systems (publications, speaking, patents)
- Experience with AI/ML at scale in production
- Track record building platforms serving billions of transactions
- Experience working with executive leadership on technical strategy
- History developing engineers who grew into senior technical roles
- Deep understanding of payment processing and transaction lifecycle
- Experience with payment network protocols (Visa, Mastercard, Amex)
- Experience with event correlation and transaction matching
- Knowledge of retry mechanisms, dead-letter queues, and event replay
- Understanding of exactly-once processing and idempotency patterns
- Experience in payments, financial services, or high-scale transaction processing

Apply on Visa Inc.'s site: https://visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Visa/job/US---Bellevue-WA/Lead-Software-Engineer_REF084840W