Software Engineer

Visas Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the worlds most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants 15k Financial Institutions and billions of everyday people.   While working with us youll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows business and data solutions cyber security and B2C platforms.

The Opportunity: 

We are looking for a versatile curious and motivated Associate Software Engineer to join the Visa Acceptance Platform Integration team a cross-functional engineering group within the broader Acceptance Solutions Technology organization. This team is responsible for building and scaling our global notification infrastructure including webhook delivery email and SMS delivery systems subscription management tools and developer-facing integration capabilities.

As an Associate Software Engineer you will work closely with senior engineers to help deliver frictionless scalable solutions that empower partners and the developer community to build and innovate on the Visa Acceptance Platform. You will contribute to the design development and operation of event-driven fault-tolerant systems that support billions of transactions and enable real-time communication across Visas ecosystem. Your work will directly support platform reliability developer experience and partner autonomy with opportunities to learn modern technologies contribute to high-impact projects and grow your engineering skills in a global environment.

The Work itself: 

• Contribute to the design build and evolution of systems that serve a global user base supporting Visas standards for scalability security and reusability.

• Assist in improving and modernizing existing platforms to meet performance reliability and integration demands across Visas ecosystem.

• Help develop event-driven systems that power Visas notification infrastructure including webhook delivery email and SMS delivery systems and subscription management tools.

• Participate in implementing observability-first engineering practices and delivery guarantees.

• Learn and apply secure-by-design principles following Visas rigorous internal security standards and external regulatory requirements.

• Collaborate across teams to build best-in-class software solutions for Visas global offerings.

• Assist in preparing platforms for global readiness including localized and compliant messaging experiences.

• Support release management activities such as multi-region deployments feature toggles and rollback prevention.

• Gain exposure to AI-powered tools and workflows to enhance developer productivity automation and efficiency.

Essential Functions:

• Write clean maintainable and testable code under the guidance of senior engineers.

• Help implement APIs and backend services for real-time partner integrations.

• Follow secure coding practices and contribute to compliance efforts.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product TPMs Solution Engineers and SREs to deliver integration solutions.

• Learn and apply AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot Cline Code Cursor) in the product development lifecycle.

• Contribute to documentation participate in code reviews and follow established engineering standards.

• Assist in identifying and resolving technical issues in distributed systems.

The Skills You Bring:

• Learning Mindset  Eagerness to grow technical skills and learn from experienced engineers.

• Problem Solving  Ability to break down problems and work toward solutions with guidance.

• Language Foundations  Basic proficiency in one or more programming languages (Java Go C C#) with the ability to learn new technologies quickly.

• Builder Mindset  Experience from internships projects or coursework building and testing applications with attention to scalability and reliability.

• Full-Stack Curiosity  Interest in contributing to front-end development using frameworks like React or Angular.

• Systems Awareness  Understanding of distributed systems concepts and messaging platforms (Kafka RabbitMQ) at a foundational level.

• Secure-by-Design Approach  Awareness of security best practices in development and deployment.

• AI Enablement  Interest in integrating AI into the development lifecycle using GenAI tooling intelligent automation or workflow enhancements.

• Collaboration  Ability to work effectively within Agile/Scrum teams across hybrid cross-regional environments.

• Continuous Learner  Desire to stay up to date on emerging technologies such as Kubernetes Docker Argo CD GitHub Actions and AI-assisted coding tools.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors degree OR 3 years of relevant work experience
- Exposure to backend development using Java or similar objectoriented languages through internships academic projects or professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications
- Backend Development Exposure to backend development using Java Go C or similar objectoriented languages familiarity with concepts such as delivery guarantees (e.g. zero message loss exactlyonce processing) is a plus.
- Databases and Data Management Experience working with relational databases (Oracle MySQL SQL Server/MSSQL) or NoSQL databases (MongoDB) in coursework projects or internships.
- Messaging and Distributed Systems Awareness of distributed systems or eventdriven architectures and exposure to messaging platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Cloud and Containerization Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) and containerization/orchestration technologies (Docker Kubernetes OpenShift) through coursework or personal projects.
- APIs and Integration Experience building or consuming REST APIs familiarity with GraphQL or gRPC and API gateways/service meshes (Istio Linkerd) is a plus.
- Observability and Monitoring Exposure to observability practices and monitoring/tracing tools (Prometheus Grafana ELK OpenTelemetry).
- CI/CD and DevOps Experience building simple CI/CD pipelines or using deployment automation tooling such as GitHub Actions Jenkins or Argo CD.
- AI and Developer Productivity Exposure to AI technologies (GenAI tooling intelligent automation NLP) to enhance developer workflows or platform capabilities familiarity with tools like GitHub Copilot Cline Code or Cursor through coursework internships or personal projects.
- Application and Infrastructure Security Awareness of application security principles common vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10) and secure coding best practices familiarity with tools such as Checkmarx or Parasoft is a plus.
- Agile Delivery & Release Management Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments including collaborating with Product to refine requirements create user stories and contribute to backlog prioritization exposure to multiregion deployment concepts and feature toggles is a plus.

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 to USD per year88000 to 124700 which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge skills experience and 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