$195,800 – $313,500
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
Visa is seeking a hands-on Chief Software Engineer to architect and lead next-generation AI-enabled commercial payments platforms across distributed cloud-native systems. This role suits experienced technical leaders who want to remain close to implementation while shaping platform strategy and driving AI adoption across engineering teams.
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What they ask for
Required
- 12+ years of software engineering experience (or 9 years with advanced degree, or 6 years with PhD)
- Deep hands-on experience building large-scale backend or platform systems
- Distributed systems design expertise
- Cloud-native architecture experience
- Production-grade platform and service development experience
- Technical leadership across engineering teams
- Modern service architecture knowledge (microservices, APIs, containers, caching, security)
Nice to have
- 15+ years of software engineering experience with Bachelor's degree, or 12+ years with advanced degree, or 9+ years with PhD
- GenAI hands-on experience including AI-native applications, workflow orchestration, or agent-based systems
- Strong understanding of reliability, latency, scale, maintainability, and security trade-offs
- Experience using AI to improve engineering productivity or platform capabilities
- Familiarity with REST, gRPC, API gateways, container technologies, and infrastructure automation
- Background in payments, fintech, or money movement at scale
- Experience in compliance-heavy and globally-scaled environments