Sr. SW Engineer; Software Engineering

Visa · Bengaluru · 2+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-05-04

Tech stack: AWS, Azure, C++, Docker, GCP, Java, Jenkins, Kafka, Kubernetes, Linux, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, SQL, Spring Boot, Unix

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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:
- Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.
- The Opportunity:
- We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.
- Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability
- Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings
- Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads
- Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.
- Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology
- Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities
- Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
- Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance.
- Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements.
- Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
- Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.
Qualifications:
- 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience
- Preferred
- 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)
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (Master's degree preferred)
- Java & Backend Development:
- Strong experience with JAVA, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Hibernate/JPA
- Solid understanding of object-oriented design principles and design patterns
- Experience with RESTful API development and microservices architecture
- Proficiency in code development using IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, or similar Java IDEs
- Experience with unit testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, TestNG)
- Understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and Java memory management
- Familiarity with reactive programming (Spring WebFlux, RxJava) is a plus
- Development Tools & Practices:
- Proficient with GIT/Stash for version control
- Experience with Maven or Gradle for dependency management and builds
- Hands-on experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar CI/CD tools
- Understanding of code review best practices and collaborative development
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
- API Development & Integration:
- Experience developing REST APIs with proper error handling and documentation
- Knowledge of JSON, XML data formats
- Understanding of OAuth 2.0, JWT, and API security best practices
- Familiarity with API documentation tools (Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman)
- Experience with API versioning and backward compatibility
- Data & Databases:
- Solid experience with SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or DB2)
- Understanding of database design, normalization, and query optimization
- Experience writing complex SQL queries and stored procedures
- Distributed Systems Fundamentals:
- Understanding of microservices architecture patterns
- Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS)
- Knowledge of caching strategies (Redis, Memcached)
- Understanding of distributed logging and monitoring
- Familiarity with service communication patterns (sync/async, request-response, pub-sub)
- Basic understanding of eventual consistency and distributed transactions
- Infrastructure & DevOps:
- Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems
- Familiarity with Docker containerization
- Basic understanding of Kubernetes or container orchestration
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is a plus
- Knowledge of logging and monitoring tools (ELK Stack, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana)
- AI-Assisted Development:
- Experience using AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, or similar)
- Ability to leverage AI tools to improve coding efficiency and code quality
- Understanding of prompt engineering for effective AI collaboration
- Interest in exploring AI/ML integration in software applications
- Familiarity with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI) is a plus
- Professional Capabilities
- Ability to write clean, maintainable code following coding standards and best practices
- Strong problem-solving skills and analytical thinking
- Effective communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment
- Self-motivated with a drive to continuously learn and improve
- Experience with code documentation and technical writing

Qualifications

- 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience
- 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)
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (Master's degree preferred)
- Java & Backend Development:
- Strong experience with JAVA, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Hibernate/JPA
- Solid understanding of object-oriented design principles and design patterns
- Experience with RESTful API development and microservices architecture
- Proficiency in code development using IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, or similar Java IDEs
- Experience with unit testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, TestNG)
- Understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and Java memory management
- Familiarity with reactive programming (Spring WebFlux, RxJava) is a plus
- Development Tools & Practices:
- Proficient with GIT/Stash for version control
- Experience with Maven or Gradle for dependency management and builds
- Hands-on experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar CI/CD tools
- Understanding of code review best practices and collaborative development
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
- API Development & Integration:
- Experience developing REST APIs with proper error handling and documentation
- Knowledge of JSON, XML data formats
- Understanding of OAuth 2.0, JWT, and API security best practices
- Familiarity with API documentation tools (Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman)
- Experience with API versioning and backward compatibility
- Data & Databases:
- Solid experience with SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or DB2)
- Understanding of database design, normalization, and query optimization
- Experience writing complex SQL queries and stored procedures
- Distributed Systems Fundamentals:
- Understanding of microservices architecture patterns
- Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS)
- Knowledge of caching strategies (Redis, Memcached)
- Understanding of distributed logging and monitoring
- Familiarity with service communication patterns (sync/async, request-response, pub-sub)
- Basic understanding of eventual consistency and distributed transactions
- Infrastructure & DevOps:
- Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems
- Familiarity with Docker containerization
- Basic understanding of Kubernetes or container orchestration
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is a plus
- Knowledge of logging and monitoring tools (ELK Stack, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana)
- AI-Assisted Development: Experience using AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, or similar)
- Ability to leverage AI tools to improve coding efficiency and code quality
- Understanding of prompt engineering for effective AI collaboration
- Interest in exploring AI/ML integration in software applications
- Familiarity with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI) is a plus Professional Capabilities
- Ability to write clean, maintainable code following coding standards and best practices
- Strong problem-solving skills and analytical thinking
- Effective communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment
- Self-motivated with a drive to continuously learn and improve
- Experience with code documentation and technical writing

Responsibilities

- Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.
- We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.
- While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.
- The Opportunity: We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale.
- As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base.
- While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.
- Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability
- Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings
- Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads
- Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.
- Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology
- Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities
- Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
- Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance.
- Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements.
- Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
- Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.

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