Staff Software Engineer

Visa

Confirmed live yesterday High trust

Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type: Hybrid
Location: Austin, TX
Salary: $131,600–$210,300 / yr
Posted: 121 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

Market check

Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $214k

This role $171k

$116k most similar roles pay here $278k

This role pays less than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $185,978–$242,312 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $171k versus about $214k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

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.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Visa

At a glance

TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer

Role Posting Log in to save

As a Staff Software Engineer within the Technology Organization, you will join a cross-functional Agile team to design, develop, and evolve a home-grown network infrastructure-as-code platform. You will operate with high independence to translate ambiguous requirements into robust technical solutions for complex, distributed systems and automation services essential for infrastructure reliability. Your daily responsibilities include influencing engineering standards, performing code reviews, mentoring other engineers, and creating design artifacts for various technical offerings. The role requires expertise in Python, Angular, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build scalable web applications and backend components. You will also utilize AI-powered tools for coding, debugging, and refactoring while managing data structures and systems integration. This position focuses on solving critical problems regarding high availability, performance, and security within a sophisticated global network infrastructure.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Texas?

Median $190975 from 202 postings across 40 companies.

See salary data

Skills

Python Angular HTML CSS JavaScript API Data Structures infrastructure-as-code Agile Scrum Dev-ops Distributed Systems AI‑powered tools

What you'll do

Design and develop scalable infrastructure-as-code platforms for high availability and security.
Translate ambiguous requirements into robust technical solutions for complex distributed systems.
Influence engineering standards, design decisions, and best practices across the organization.
Develop backend Python code and frontend components to support product development.
Build and deploy automated services to ensure infrastructure reliability.
Provide mentorship and guidance to other engineers through code and design reviews.
Utilize AI-powered tools to improve coding, debugging, testing, and documentation processes.
Create technical documentation for solutions and implement standard reporting processes.

What we're looking for

Must have 5+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 2+ years with an Advanced degree, or 0 years with a PhD, or 8+ years of total experience.
Strong expertise in Python and Angular is required.
Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability is required.
Experience using AI-powered tools to improve coding, debugging, testing, and refactoring is required.
Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams is required.
Knowledge of and ability to develop front-end code including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (preferred).
Knowledge of user interface design and providing an optimal industrial design experience through UI Design (preferred).
Knowledge of back-end Python development, API utilization, database software, data structures, and systems integration (preferred).

Save