Staff Software Engineer

Visa Visa · Fintech · Bengaluru, India, IN

Staff Software Engineer at Visa focused on innovating internal business processes and ecosystems using AI and Agentic AI technologies. The role involves leading teams, rapid prototyping, scaling successful pilots to commercial solutions, and leveraging AI in development and production systems. Experience with Gen AI, Agentic AI, and technical leadership is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Be at the heart of developing new ideas into demo-able products, and ultimately to commercial product
  2. Work directly with product owners, UX, engineering and other partner teams to gather and refine requirements across products, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions across the organization
  3. Drive rapid prototyping cycles from technical requirements, software designs, programming, debugging, and optimization
  4. Explore and innovate new technologies, features, and tools
  5. Be scrappy and work with the small team to the fullest to work on multiple parallel POCs and incubation efforts

Skills

Required

  • 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.
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • 2+ years of experience in technical leadership roles with increasing responsibility

Nice to have

  • Passion for innovation, new ideas, quick prototyping, hackathons etc.
  • Prior work exploring and innovating new IP, genres, and product experiences
  • Professional experience in ideation and incubation which has led to shipping products
  • Multi-disciplinary skills and experience in ideation, software design, programming, debugging, and optimization
  • Proven skill set and track record in developing one-line ideas into products
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Self-motivated and drive for excellence
  • Have an open-minded approach to development strategy and approaches
  • Capable of building culture for innovation
  • Technical hands-on skills, ideally in multiple technology stacks for web development, APIs and Mobile application development on diverse platforms
  • Hands-on and up to date with Gen AI and Agentic AI technologies and space
  • MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Prior experience working with Agentic AI systems.
  • Prior experience working in a start-up or at VC firms in a “Resident Entrepreneur” capacity
  • Financial services and/or payments processing industry experience is a plus
  • Patents and other proofs of past success in creating IP

What the JD emphasized

  • technically leading and mentoring multi-skilled teams
  • rapid prototyping
  • scale these to commercial solutions
  • strategic partnerships, breakthrough technologies, new ideas, hackathons, demos, and rapid prototyping
  • Develop and design advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable
  • Leverage AI technologies as-appropriate in day-2-day development and in production systems
  • Hands-on and up to date with Gen AI and Agentic AI technologies and space
  • technical leadership roles with increasing responsibility
  • Prior experience working with Agentic AI systems.

Other signals

  • Leverage AI technologies as-appropriate in day-2-day development and in production systems
  • Hands-on and up to date with Gen AI and Agentic AI technologies and space
  • Prior experience working with Agentic AI systems.