Staff Software Engineer

Visa

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Bellevue, WA
Salary: $134,500–$214,700 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 8 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role pays less than 79% of similar roles. Most pay $182,375–$234,525 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $175k versus about $208k 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 93 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $153,500–$245,900 across 90 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer

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The Staff SW Engineer joins the Acceptance Solutions team to design, build, and evolve secure, scalable transaction processing platforms. This hands-on role involves significant coding while providing technical leadership across architecture, API strategy, integration patterns, and engineering standards. The position focuses on solving complex problems within the payment domain, specifically involving transaction lifecycle management, payment clearing, and message formats in regulated environments. Candidates will utilize a variety of technologies including Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, or Kotlin, alongside tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and Kafka for event-driven architecture. The role also incorporates Generative AI and agentic AI to enhance productivity. Key technical competencies include RESTful API design, cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP, and observability tools such as Splunk and Datadog to ensure reliable, high-scale distributed systems and secure payment processing.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $207500 from 421 postings across 40 companies.

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Skills

Java Python JavaScript TypeScript Go Kotlin Generative AI Agentic AI REST OpenAPI JSON Microservices AWS Azure GCP Docker Kubernetes Kafka OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect JWT SAML mTLS Splunk Datadog Grafana OpenTelemetry Avro Protobuf SFTP

What you'll do

Design, build, and evolve secure, scalable solutions for transaction processing platforms.
Perform hands-on coding for 60-75% of the role's responsibilities.
Provide technical leadership across architecture, API strategy, and integration patterns.
Implement Generative AI and agentic AI workflows to improve engineering productivity and quality.
Develop and support APIs, web services, microservices, and enterprise integration services.
Build large-scale distributed systems using event-driven architectures and streaming platforms like Kafka.
Ensure compliance with financial regulations such as PCI-DSS and SOX.
Mentor engineers and establish high engineering standards across multiple teams.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience, Advanced degree with 2+ years, PhD, or 8+ years of relevant work experience.
Proficiency in modern programming languages including Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, or Kotlin.
Experience with system design, architecture, debugging, troubleshooting, and production support.
Ability to use AI-assisted tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT while establishing safe AI practices.
Experience designing, building, and supporting APIs, web services, microservices, or enterprise integration services (preferred).
Experience in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports (preferred).
Strong experience with API-first design, REST, OpenAPI, JSON, webhooks, and event-driven architecture (preferred).
Experience with cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code (preferred).

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