Chief Software Engineer

Visa•Highlands Ranch, CO

15d•Hybrid

About The Position

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you. Job Description Visa DPS Issuing Solutions is seeking a Chief SW Engineer in Denver, Colorado with the following responsibilities: Architect, design and code GenAI solutions for increasing development velocity and launching highly scalable and reliable transaction processing systems. Actively contribute to critical projects by developing key modules, core frameworks and automation tools. Establish engineering best practices for application development, testing, deployment and monitoring. Collaborate with business partners to convert product requirements into high quality solutions that comply with all nonfunctional requirements, including security, scalability, availability, and reliability. Provide technology leadership and motivate a high performing team of senior engineers to set clear priorities to achieve product/technology goals and KPIs. Collaborate with security, privacy, and governance teams to ensure that the products developed comply with relevant policies, standards, and regulations. This role is heavily focused on enabling GenAI adoption across the SDLC. Top candidates will have a strong passion and curiosity around how best to leverage GenAI in the payments transaction processing space. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. Visa will accept applications for this role until at least March 16, 2026. If this is posting, we are still accepting applications Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.

Requirements

12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience.
Experience designing, developing, and deploying scalable and secure distributed applications.
Expert level proficiency in Java programming language.
Hands-on experience in software product development, leveraging microservices architectures
Experience developing event-driven applications using technologies like Kafka or equivalent
SQL and an understanding of other relational database technologies.
Experience with containerization technologies and orchestration tools, including Docker and Kubernetes or equivalent.
Experience working with distributed caching technologies such as Hazelcast and Redis or equivalent.
Experience in deployment and distribution lifecycle with automated and scalable CI/CD tools.
Continuous delivery and DevOps experience, including infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing, and security implementation and practices.
Experience in API development using SOAP or REST, JSON, and XML.

Nice To Haves

15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
Experience in building solutions to accelerate software development through GenAI

Responsibilities

Architect, design and code GenAI solutions for increasing development velocity and launching highly scalable and reliable transaction processing systems.
Actively contribute to critical projects by developing key modules, core frameworks and automation tools.
Establish engineering best practices for application development, testing, deployment and monitoring.
Collaborate with business partners to convert product requirements into high quality solutions that comply with all nonfunctional requirements, including security, scalability, availability, and reliability.
Provide technology leadership and motivate a high performing team of senior engineers to set clear priorities to achieve product/technology goals and KPIs.
Collaborate with security, privacy, and governance teams to ensure that the products developed comply with relevant policies, standards, and regulations.