Lead Software Engineer – Agentic AI, IAM & Authentication
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Job Location:
Austin, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
18 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Platform Products builds the shared foundations that enable Visa to scale innovation across multiple this role youll work on foundational systems with broad organizational impact helping define how AInative capabilities are designed deployed and scaled responsibly at Visa.
As a Lead Software Engineer within Visas Platform Products organization you will provide technical leadership to build the next generation of Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Authentication capabilities. You will work on highscale distributed systems that support new and evolving payment flows partnering closely with product architecture and engineering teams.
This role requires handson experience building agentic AI systems including AI agents context management and retrievalaugmented generation (RAG). The focus is on building productionready reliable AInative services not prototypes or experiments.
Essential Functions:
- Lead architecture and design for crossteam and crossproduct initiatives from concept through production.
- Establish and reinforce engineering best practices by example including writing and reviewing production code.
- Define and promote platform standards reusable frameworks and shared services.
- Build secure scalable resilient APIcentric systems designed for global use.
- Partner with Product and Architecture teams to deliver solutions aligned with business strategy.
- Influence enterprise technology selection and architectural direction.
- Drive operational excellence across deployment monitoring logging and security.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to building highperforming inclusive engineering teams.
- Contribute to GenAI initiatives that improve developer productivity and enable product innovation.
- Share technical knowledge and thought leadership across the organization.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications :
Basic Qualifications:
- 10 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD OR 13 years of relevant work experience.
Candidates must have handson production experience with:
- Building AI agents that execute multistep workflows using tools or APIs.
- Context management techniques such as state handling memory summarization or session management.
- RetrievalAugmented Generation (RAG) including retrieval design grounding strategies and quality evaluation.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD
- Experience designing and building distributed systems and shared platform services.
- Strong experience with Java Spring and modern serviceoriented architectures.
- Expertise in API design and service communication patterns (e.g. REST gRPC).
- Experience with microservices containerization API gateways caching and security.
- Strong understanding of system integration patterns and architectural tradeoffs.
- Experience with CI/CD automation monitoring logging and secure DevOps practices.
- Advanced knowledge of AI / Generative AI concepts and applied system design.
- Experience in payments identity or security domains is a plus.
- Nicetohave: experience building evaluation or monitoring frameworks for AI system reliability.
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 this position is $173100.00 to $276800.00 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 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
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- Data Structures
- JavaScript
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Our purpose is to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and b ... View more
