Software Engineer-1

Visa•Austin, TX

1d•$88,000 - $136,900•Hybrid

About The Position

VCS Platform & Acceptance is part of the Visa Commercial Solutions technology organization. The team is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing Virtual Cards, payables, and acceptance commercial platforms that drive incremental revenue and support the continued growth of Commercial B2B product lines. We are looking for versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As part of a multi-functional development team, you will help invent, design, build, test, and support software products that serve a truly global customer base. While building innovative payment technology, you will help shape the digital future of commercial money movement. As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to the design, development, testing, and support of modern backend platforms focused on API development, microservices, event-driven architectures, and high-performance backend services. This role requires a GenAI-first mindset. You are expected to use GenAI, LLMs, agentic AI tools, and coding assistants as part of your day-to-day engineering workflow to improve implementation speed, quality, documentation, testing, troubleshooting, and delivery outcomes.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience
Experience in backend software development using technologies such as REST APIs, J2EE, JDBC, JMS, and related service development tools
Experience or exposure to frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, WebFlux, or Vert.x
Experience in building Generative AI applications, conversational AI, RAG architectures, techniques and libraries
Experience or exposure to microservices and backend service development
Experience or exposure to event-driven architecture
Familiarity with the software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release
Exposure to Agile development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery practices
Strong oral and written communication skills
Strong interpersonal, troubleshooting, and analytical skills
Ability to multitask and work effectively within a team in a fast-paced, high-performance organization
Required experience using GenAI / LLM-based tools in regular engineering work
Demonstrated GenAI-first attitude toward development, debugging, testing, and documentation
2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor’s degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience
Working knowledge of gRPC
Exposure to Kafka, Redis, or NoSQL datastores
Experience with database technologies such as MySQL, DB2, Oracle, or similar systems
Ability to understand and write simple to moderately complex SQL
Familiarity with tools such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, JUnit
Exposure to container technologies, caching, API gateways, and service security patterns
Exposure to highly available and scalable application environments
Strong foundation in backend engineering using REST APIs, J2EE, JDBC, JMS
Familiarity with frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, WebFlux, and Vert.x
A clear GenAI-first approach to coding, debugging, testing, documentation, and productivity improvement
Good understanding of OOP concepts and design patterns
Experience or exposure to API development, microservices, backend services, and event-driven systems
Understanding of building software with attention to security, quality, performance, resiliency, and compliance
Working knowledge of CI/CD, test automation, and modern development practices
SQL and database fundamentals
Curiosity, creativity, ownership, and strong collaboration skills

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and maintain backend software aligned with design specifications, security requirements, and engineering best practices
Build and support REST APIs, backend services, and microservices
Contribute to event-driven application flows and asynchronous integration patterns
Help design and evolve scalable, reliable, resilient, and high-performance services
Work with technical and product stakeholders to break down requirements into achievable tasks
Support test engineers and operations teams in troubleshooting, defect research, and root cause analysis
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and development automation
Communicate status, issues, and risks effectively and timely
Work collaboratively in a fast-paced, high-performance team environment
Bring curiosity and creativity to understand requirements and propose practical solutions