Senior Staff Software Engineer (I6.5) (GenAI, Full-Stack)

Visa Verifi Product Development team is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead a world-class team of software and systems engineers to deliver client-ready solutions by building the next generation of systems automation and tools to support overall productivity and developer efficiencies. You will provide strategy vision and technical leadership to the product development teams across Visa Verifi to ensure engineering teams are building products that use a foundational approach that prioritizes high availability and security.
You will be responsible for mentoring top engineering talent keeping the team highly engaged and motivated while delivering exceptional results. Your ability to work across functions and teams will allow you to drive results and foster the right culture and environment to achieve Engineering Excellence and Innovation. You will be responsible for working with product development quality engineering security engineering enterprise operations and other internal and external technology partners to deliver products for business integration & enablement.

Essential Functions:

• Provide technical guidance within Visa Technology Compliance Policies on tools development automation system stability availability and overall integration strategies and plans.
• Own system technical design discussions with global teams to ensure business and technical requirements are understood and properly documented and implemented including understanding customer scenarios.
• Keep executive management informed of progress and any obstacles of development Releases and risks to Visa and to its customers.
• Apply creative thinking/approaches to determine the best solutions that further support developer efficiency.
• Partner with product development and application architecture teams to drive the evolution of availability across VMs and Containers.
• Achieve Operational/Engineering Excellence: availability stability efficiency with an availability first mindset directed towards all product development efforts.
• Evaluate and integrate generative AI tools and agents into the software development lifecycle to automate code generation documentation and testing.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to identify opportunities where Gen AI solutions can optimize workflows and deliver business value.
• Stay current with advancements in Gen AI technologies and tools and recommend their adoption.
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This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager. This role does not offer relocation and limited immigration support. 

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD OR 11 years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• Experience with tools development automation (Cl/CD Auto Deployment System Availability etc.).
• Extended experience in Agile Release Management practices governance and planning.
• Ability to quickly identify and manage/mitigate risks.
• Ability to influence Senior Leadership on direction of engineering efficiencies and integration management through data roadmaps short/long term plans etc.
• Strong ability to build and sustain working and strategic relationships across technology.
• Experience with large-scale systems with both VM and Container based multi data-center (active active) solutions external 3rd parties such as Akamai Cloud Fare etc. and how to bring the solution together into a single view.
• Must have a solid understanding of latest web technologies (TCP/IP HTTP HTML JavaScript CSS) REST SOAP XML JSON and other relevant API standards like OAuth SAML.
• Extensive technical experience with full stack HTTP JAVA REST APls JSON databases Spring Java and web frameworks at scale.
• Experience with both NoSQL and SQL data stores including Redis HazelCast MySQL MSSQL or similar
• Experience with web based applications that deals with sensitive data.
• Experience with Clover or similar batch processing systems that handles outgoing and incoming files with encrypted data.
• Experience within container space understands and able to quickly build and drive team to support future systems.
• Experience consuming and integrating Gen AI tools (e.g. OpenAI APIs GitHub Copilot CodeWhisperer Tabnine)
• Strong leadership skills with demonstrated ability to lead global cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to maintain composure under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML frameworks and libraries (TensorFlow PyTorch Hugging Face Transformers Keras Scikit-learn etc.)
• Understanding of AI agent frameworks and their application in code generation and automation

Additional Information :

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk communicate in person and by telephone frequently operate standard office equipment such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 143200.00 to 207800.00 USD per year which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge skills experience and location. In addition this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical Dental Vision 401 (k) FSA/HSA Life Insurance Paid Time Off and Wellness Program.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time