Staff Software Engineer

Visa

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Austin, TX
Salary: $131,600–$210,300 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 167 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Below market

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Similar $202k

This role $171k

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This role pays less than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $173,350–$230,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $171k versus about $202k for comparable roles.

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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 115 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $156,800–$251,100 across 111 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer

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JOB TITLE: Staff Software Engineer 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 a high degree of autonomy to translate ambiguous requirements into robust technical solutions, influencing engineering standards and best practices across the team. Your daily work involves building scalable infrastructure management products, developing distributed systems, and creating design artifacts for high-availability software. You will utilize Python, Angular, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build modern web applications and APIs. The role requires expertise in data structures, systems integration, and database software. You will also leverage AI-powered tools to improve coding, debugging, and testing while ensuring the reliability of foundational infrastructure services.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Texas?

Median $178175 from 185 postings across 46 companies.

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Skills

Python Angular HTML CSS JavaScript APIs infrastructure-as-code Agile Scrum Data Structures Systems Integration UI) Design Distributed Systems Web Applications

What you'll do

Design and develop scalable infrastructure-as-code platforms and distributed systems.
Translate ambiguous requirements into robust technical solutions for high-availability systems.
Influence engineering standards, design decisions, and best practices across the team.
Provide technical guidance through design reviews, code reviews, and engineer mentoring.
Develop robust infrastructure management products using innovative technologies.
Use AI-powered tools to improve coding, debugging, testing, and refactoring processes.
Gather and refine product requirements in coordination with product owners.
Create and maintain user documentation for technical solutions and standard processes.

What we're looking for

Must have 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree.
Must have at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD).
Must have 0 years of work experience with a PhD.
Must have 8+ years of relevant work experience.
Must have strong Python and Angular expertise.
Must have experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability.
Must have experience using AI-powered tools to improve coding, debugging, testing, and refactoring.
Knowledge of and ability to develop front-end code (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) (preferred).

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