Senior SW Engineer

Visa

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Bellevue, WA
Salary
$110,700–$171,800 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
51 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

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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 114 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $155,850–$251,100 across 110 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior SW Engineer

JOB TITLE: Sr. SW Engineer The Sr. SW Engineer joins the Acceptance Solutions platform team to design, build, and support secure, scalable transaction processing solutions. This hands-on role requires 60-75% coding to deliver reliable technology solutions while leveraging Generative AI and modern cloud-native practices. The engineer will develop enterprise-scale distributed systems, APIs, and integration platforms using Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, or Kotlin. Key technical requirements include experience with event-driven architecture using Kafka, OAuth 2.0, and OpenTelemetry. The role involves utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP to solve complex problems in regulated fintech and payment environments. Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in REST, OpenAPI, and automated testing while ensuring compliance with PCI-DSS and SOX requirements within merchant and acquirer workflows.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and support secure, scalable solutions for the Acceptance Solutions platform.
  • Write production-level code for transaction processing platforms 60-75% of the time.
  • Implement Generative AI, agentic AI workflows, and RAG for intelligent automation.
  • Develop enterprise-scale distributed systems, APIs, and integration platforms using microservices.
  • Build event-driven architectures using Kafka, message queues, and workflow orchestration.
  • Manage authentication and authorization flows using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and JWT.
  • Perform system design, debugging, troubleshooting, and production support for cloud-native applications.
  • Establish safe AI practices and utilize AI-assisted tools like GitHub Copilot.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience.
  • Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, or Kotlin (preferred).
  • Experience designing, building, and supporting APIs, web services, microservices, or enterprise integration services (preferred).
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code (preferred).
  • Experience with event-driven architecture using Kafka, message queues, event streaming, or workflow orchestration (preferred).
  • Experience with authentication/authorization (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, SAML, mTLS, IAM) (preferred).
  • Experience with observability and reliability (Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, SLOs) (preferred).
  • Experience with automated testing, contract testing, performance testing, and API certification (preferred).

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