Lead Software Engineer

Visa

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Bellevue, WA
Salary
$173,100–$276,800 / yr
Posted
35 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Sep 30, 2026

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $198k
This role $225k
$161k most similar roles pay here $289k

This role pays more than 88% of similar roles. Most pay $185,500–$211,200 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $225k versus about $198k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Visa

Visa Inc. is the world''s largest payment network, enabling digital payments for consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments through its global processing network and branded card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services

Visa currently has 93 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $149,200–$238,700 across 92 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Lead Software Engineer

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will join a multi-functional development team to design, build, and test software products for a global customer base. You will be responsible for creating robust, scalable components for payment technology, including transaction platforms, real-time payments, and buy now pay later systems. Your daily work involves collaborating with product partners to define requirements, formalizing standard processes for programming languages like Go, C++, and C#, and implementing systemic solutions to improve website functionality. You will leverage technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, Kafka, and Generative AI models while managing distributed systems and event-driven architectures. The role focuses on solving complex problems in the payment sector by developing high-quality code that ensures security, scalability, and reusability across various business-to-business and government solutions within a diverse agile environment.

What you'll do

  • Design and develop scalable code for global payment systems using languages like Go, C++, or Java.
  • Build and deploy robust backend services, including API development and distributed system architecture.
  • Lead technical strategy meetings with product partners to improve interface features and functionality.
  • Implement systemic solutions to resolve recurring bugs and ensure website stability across e-commerce products.
  • Integrate new technologies and capabilities to enhance the user experience for merchant and government clients.
  • Manage data structures and systems integration to ensure efficient information access and modification.
  • Monitor system health through observability practices including logging, alerting, and performance monitoring.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 10 years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree, 8 years with an Advanced Degree, or 3 years with a PhD.
  • Preferred: experience with a Bachelor’s degree, with an Advanced Degree, or with a PhD.
  • Ability to develop back-end code using languages such as Go, C/C++, containers, and gRPC.
  • Experience with event-driven architecture and distributed systems, including hands-on work with Kafka or similar technologies.
  • Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, including testing, automation, deployment, and release strategies.
  • Deep expertise in observability, including monitoring, logging, and alerting.
  • Experience developing cloud-ready components and utilizing Generative AI models for code development.
  • Proficiency in data structures, systems integration, and managing database software to maintain and output data.

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