Staff Software Engineer

Visa · Bengaluru · 5+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-06-24

Tech stack: Angular, Docker, Flask, JavaScript, Jenkins, MySQL, Python, React

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About the role

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.
Responsibilities:
- The Opportunity
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be expected to operate with a high degree of independence, responsible not only for building high‑quality software, but also for influencing design decisions, engineering standards, and best practices across the team.
- You will work on complex, distributed systems and automation services that are foundational to Visa’s infrastructure reliability. You are expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy, translate ambiguous requirements into robust technical solutions, and provide guidance to other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring.
- The Work You’ll Do
- Ownership & Design
- Take end‑to‑end ownership of features and services, from design and implementation through deployment and lifecycle support.
- Contribute to and influence system architecture, API design, and technology choices, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and resilient.
- Participate actively in code reviews and design discussions, providing thoughtful feedback and driving alignment with engineering best practices.
- Software Development
- Design, develop, test, and maintain high‑volume, low‑latency, highly available applications using modern full‑stack technologies.
- Implement RESTful services and backend components using Python‑based frameworks (e.g., Flask, RESTPlus) and integrate with internal and third‑party APIs.
- Build and evolve responsive, production‑grade user interfaces using modern frontend frameworks such as Angular or React.
- Develop software that adheres to Visa’s security, quality, performance, and maintainability standards.
- Delivery & Operations
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automated delivery processes using tools such as Git, Jenkins, and containerized environments (Docker).
- Support production systems, participate in incident resolution, and contribute to continuous improvements in stability and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with peers across Global Network Engineering and Visa Technology teams to ensure smooth integration and delivery.
- Proactively identify technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and reliability gaps, and drive solutions to address them.
- Collaboration & Influence
- Work closely with Product, Architecture, SRE, Security, and QA teams to translate business and platform requirements into technical solutions.
- Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers through pairing, reviews, and knowledge sharing.
- Influence team‑level and org‑level engineering best practices, including observability, resiliency, and automation.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.
- Preferred
- 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.
- 5+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience with an advanced degree.
- Proven ability to independently deliver production‑quality software in a complex, enterprise environment.
- Experience working on highly available infrastructure‑focused systems.
- Prior experience mentoring engineers or acting as a technical lead on projects.
- Familiarity with observability, resiliency engineering, and automation in distributed systems.
- Strong hands‑on experience in full‑stack development, including:
- Backend: Python, REST APIs, JSON, Flask/RESTPlus
- Frontend: JavaScript, HTML5, Angular or React
- Experience working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and data security concepts.
- Solid understanding of software design patterns, data structures, and object‑oriented design principles.
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and Agile development practices.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex systems and debug production issues.
- Experience integrating third‑party APIs.
- Experience integrating AI/ML or Generative AI capabilities into production software systems
- Experience using AI‑powered tools to improve coding, debugging, testing.

Qualifications

- 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
- 0 years of work experience with a PhD
- 8+ years of relevant work experience.
- 5+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience with an advanced degree.
- Proven ability to independently deliver production‑quality software in a complex, enterprise environment.
- Experience working on highly available infrastructure‑focused systems.
- Prior experience mentoring engineers or acting as a technical lead on projects.
- Familiarity with observability, resiliency engineering, and automation in distributed systems.
- Strong hands‑on experience in full‑stack development, including:
- Backend: Python, REST APIs, JSON, Flask/RESTPlus
- Frontend: JavaScript, HTML5, Angular or React
- Experience working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and data security concepts.
- Solid understanding of software design patterns, data structures, and object‑oriented design principles.
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and Agile development practices.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex systems and debug production issues.
- Experience integrating third‑party APIs.
- Experience integrating AI/ML or Generative AI capabilities into production software systems
- Experience using AI‑powered tools to improve coding, debugging, testing.

Responsibilities

- The Opportunity As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be expected to operate with a high degree of independence, responsible not only for building high‑quality software, but also for influencing design decisions, engineering standards, and best practices across the team.
- You will work on complex, distributed systems and automation services that are foundational to Visa’s infrastructure reliability.
- You are expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy, translate ambiguous requirements into robust technical solutions, and provide guidance to other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring.
- The Work You’ll Do
- Ownership & Design
- Take end‑to‑end ownership of features and services, from design and implementation through deployment and lifecycle support.
- Contribute to and influence system architecture, API design, and technology choices, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and resilient.
- Participate actively in code reviews and design discussions, providing thoughtful feedback and driving alignment with engineering best practices.
- Software Development Design, develop, test, and maintain high‑volume, low‑latency, highly available applications using modern full‑stack technologies.
- Implement RESTful services and backend components using Python‑based frameworks (e.g., Flask, RESTPlus) and integrate with internal and third‑party APIs.
- Build and evolve responsive, production‑grade user interfaces using modern frontend frameworks such as Angular or React.
- Develop software that adheres to Visa’s security, quality, performance, and maintainability standards.
- Delivery & Operations
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automated delivery processes using tools such as Git, Jenkins, and containerized environments (Docker).
- Support production systems, participate in incident resolution, and contribute to continuous improvements in stability and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with peers across Global Network Engineering and Visa Technology teams to ensure smooth integration and delivery.
- Proactively identify technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and reliability gaps, and drive solutions to address them.
- Collaboration & Influence
- Work closely with Product, Architecture, SRE, Security, and QA teams to translate business and platform requirements into technical solutions.
- Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers through pairing, reviews, and knowledge sharing.
- Influence team‑level and org‑level engineering best practices, including observability, resiliency, and automation.

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