Senior Software Engineer

Visa•Austin, TX

5h•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be part of our development team to help design, enhance and build our HR platform in an agile development environment, you will work independently with minimal insight to develop software that conforms to Visa’s high standards. As part of this self-driven team, you will have total ownership of the solutions we provide for our HR customers making availability, performance, security, and reliability critical to our success. You will work with colleagues, who will support and challenge you daily. You will play part of multiple teams tasked with multiple projects ranging from building Custom Workday reports and calculated fields, BIRT Layout designs, Studio Integrations, EIB inbound and outbound integrations to highly functional, secure, scalable, and resilient real time enhancements. You will work on unit testing, code reviews and regular check-ins to continuous integration that will become part of your DNA. You will see the code written and moved to production within just a few days, to then be used by all Visa employees. If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit for both of us.

Requirements

2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience of building innovative and scalable products.
You understand the trade-offs of speed vs quality on technical decisions and look at problems from different angles.
You also invest time in your own, and the team's development to build up your overall knowledge.
Extensive experience working with Java, Node.js and JavaScript
Understanding of transformers, GANs, VAEs, and other generative architectures.
Application of NLP, multimodal AI, and AI-powered developer tools in production systems.
Practical exposure to prompt engineering and tooling orchestration for AI agents in enterprise environments, ensuring reproducibility and compliance.
AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code
Experience in agile product-centric environments with rapid iteration cycles.
Operational excellence & incident response experience.
Proven experience working with technologies such as XML, XSLT, XPATH, SOA, SOAP, OAuth 2.0, Report-as-a-Service, REST Web Services and Web technologies
Advanced knowledge of MS Excel and SQL programming, C#, .NET with Visual Studio, TFS, HTML and JavaScript, SFTP and encryption preferred
Working experience on JIRA tool and Agile methodology.
Experience utilizing CI/CD tools such as Bitbucket, TFS, GitHub, Jenkins, SVN, etc..
Experience working/communicating effectively with diverse business and IT staff in multiple locations and in a multinational environment is very strongly preferred
Proven experience in eliciting and elaborating business requirements, drafting system design specifications, and developing technical solutions

Nice To Haves

3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field and at least 4-8 years of Software Development Experience or a Masters with at least 2-8 years of Software Development Experience.
Experience with Generative AI:
Experience with cloud-native DevOps:
Experience working with Azure Logic Apps will be an added advantage

Responsibilities

Strong technical communication skills along with effective collaboration skill
Exceptional problem solving and time management skills and highly detail oriented
Ability to lead effective meetings and briefings for internal and external representatives. Must often coordinate efforts between functional areas or members of an extended project team
Create conceptual approach, technical analysis and plans for development, unit testing, deployment, and support activities
Design, Code, document and implement new applications & as well as existing programs
Develop code that complies with design specifications and meets security and best practices. Coding must adhere to all standards for security, be easily maintainable and have high system performance.
Continuously experiment with Visa’s rich portfolio of Generative AI models (transformers, LLMs, GANs, VAEs, multimodal models) and cutting-edge AI tools for production and innovation.
Deliver new features on a rapid cadence (every few days) with end-to-end accountability.
Build high-performance, scalable APIs integrating with both documented and undocumented banking interfaces.
Co-develop integrations / features side-by-side with GenAI agents to dramatically increase speed-to-market and code quality.
Build working relationships with global and virtual teams on software development
Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to standards and development methodologies.