Visa's Value-Added Services Product Development (VAS PD) team aims to diversify revenue streams by developing products that enhance the Visa network and offer valuable solutions across other networks. The Risk Authentication and Identity Solutions (RaIS) team within VAS focuses on creating innovative, AI-driven risk and fraud management solutions for issuers, merchants, and fintechs. The Chief Software Engineer will lead the technology strategy, solution design, and execution of initiatives to support these business objectives, specifically focusing on 3DS Authentication products and Identity platforms.
Requirements
- 15+ years in software engineering with a strong background in architecting large-scale, distributed systems.
- Proficiency in languages like Java, Python, or GoLang, and frameworks such as Spring, Node.js, React.
- Experience with RESTful and gRPC APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems.
- Strong understanding of API security, data encryption, and Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
- Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MSSQL, MongoDB).
- Proven experience leveraging Generative AI and Agentic AI to drive 10X productivity improvements and product innovation.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP. Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the overall technical strategy and architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals while accelerating innovation and time to market.
- Architect, design, and code highly scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems and transaction processing platforms.
- Lead the adoption of Generative AI and Agentic AI to boost developer productivity by 10X, leveraging these technologies to build innovative business solutions and products.
- Establish and promote best practices for software development, including CI/CD automation and DevOps, to improve efficiency and quality across the SSDLC.
- Oversee cloud first application development and optimization on AWS, Azure, or GCP to ensure solutions are resilient, scalable, cost-effective, and secure.
- Actively contribute to critical projects by developing key modules, core frameworks, automation tools, and proof-of-concepts to validate emerging ideas and technologies.
- Provide technology leadership and motivate high-performing engineering teams, setting clear priorities to achieve product and technology KPIs.
Other
- This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
- Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
- Adhere to Visa’s Leadership Principles by promoting collaboration, acting as owner, and executing with excellence.
- Excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Familiarity with compliance and regulatory requirements in the payments industry is a plus.
