Senior Software Engineer

Visa

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Bellevue, WA
Salary
$110,700–$171,800 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $171k
This role $141k
$99k most similar roles pay here $215k

This role pays less than 73% of similar roles. Most pay $137,375–$204,100 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $141k versus about $171k 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 · Senior Software Engineer

The Sr. SW Engineer joins the Acceptance Solutions team to design, build, and support secure, scalable transaction processing platforms. This hands-on role involves significant coding to deliver reliable technology solutions while integrating Generative AI and modern cloud-native practices into the production environment. The candidate will work with cross-functional teams to develop distributed systems, APIs, and integration platforms within a regulated fintech and payments domain. Required technical skills include proficiency in Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, or Kotlin, alongside experience with REST, OpenAPI, and event-driven architectures using Kafka. The role requires expertise in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP, along with Docker and Kubernetes. Additionally, the engineer will utilize tools such as Splunk, Datadog, and Grafana for observability while ensuring compliance with PCI-DSS and SOX standards in a multi-tenant environment.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $202800 from 303 postings across 33 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and support secure, scalable transaction processing platforms for the Acceptance Solutions division.
  • Perform hands-on software engineering and coding tasks for approximately 60-75% of the role.
  • Develop enterprise-scale distributed systems, APIs, and microservices using modern programming languages.
  • Implement event-driven architectures utilizing Kafka, message queues, and workflow orchestration.
  • Integrate Generative AI, agentic workflows, and RAG into production environments while maintaining safe practices.
  • Manage system reliability through observability tools like Splunk, Datadog, and Grafana to meet SLOs.
  • Ensure compliance with financial regulations such as PCI-DSS and SOX for payment processing.
  • Mentor other engineers and establish high engineering standards across cross-functional teams.

What we're looking for

  • A Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of relevant work experience or 5+ years of relevant work experience without a degree.
  • Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, or Kotlin.
  • Experience designing, building, and supporting APIs, web services, microservices, or enterprise integration services.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
  • Experience with system design, architecture, debugging, troubleshooting, and production support.
  • Experience building enterprise-scale distributed systems, APIs, or integration platforms (preferred).
  • Experience with event-driven architecture using Kafka, message queues, or workflow orchestration (preferred).
  • Experience with authentication/authorization protocols like OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, SAML, and mTLS (preferred).

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