$192,300 – $307,600
Listed on Visa Inc.’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Lead the architecture and evolution of search, analytics, and data processing capabilities for Visa's payment acceptance platform, working hands-on with distributed systems, event streaming, and modern interfaces at massive scale. This role suits experienced technical leaders comfortable spanning backend and frontend domains while mentoring senior engineers and influencing strategy across the organization.
Our summary, not Visa Inc.’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Analytics
- Angular
- Apache Kafka
- CI/CD
- Data Processing
- Generative AI
- Java
- JavaScript
- JSON
- Kubernetes
- Microsoft Azure
- React
- REST APIs
- TypeScript
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What they ask for
Required
- 10+ years of relevant experience, or 7+ with advanced degree, or 4+ with PhD
- Hands-on technical leadership with platform-wide impact
- Expertise designing and scaling mission-critical distributed systems
- Experience with event-driven systems and Kafka
- Search, indexing, analytics, or data-processing design at large scale
- Modern web UI design using React, Angular, or TypeScript
Nice to have
- 12+ years of experience with Bachelor's degree, or 8-10 with advanced degree, or 6+ with PhD
- Payment processing or fintech platform experience
- Kubernetes and cloud platform mastery
- Experience mentoring senior engineers
- AI/ML or Generative AI implementation at scale
- Publications, speaking, patents, or industry recognition
- PCI-DSS and financial services compliance expertise
- Event correlation, transaction matching, and exactly-once processing patterns
- Data serialization and schema evolution experience
- Work with executive and architecture leadership