Staff Sw Engineer-2

Visa Visa · Fintech · Foster City, CA

Staff Software Engineer at Visa focused on building and maintaining AI-powered platforms, tools, and services. The role involves implementing solutions using agentic AI, LLMs, and machine learning to automate workflows, improve software quality, and integrate AI features into commercial payment systems. The engineer will create APIs, platform capabilities, and scalable services, collaborating with teams to drive AI adoption and experiment with new AI technologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and maintain AI-powered platforms, tools, and services that solve engineering productivity and customer challenges
  2. Implement solutions leveraging agentic AI, LLMs, and machine learning to automate workflows and improve software quality
  3. Create APIs, integrations, and platform capabilities that enable AI features across CMS products
  4. Develop scalable services that integrate AI into commercial payment and money movement systems for B2B, B2C, P2P, and G2C use cases
  5. Collaborate with engineering teams to identify opportunities for AI integration and drive adoption

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
  • Master's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum three (3) years of experience in a directly related field OR Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum five (5) years of experience in a directly related field OR Minimum eight (8) years of directly related experience
  • Experience with AI frameworks, LLMs, or generative AI (Claude, GPT, LangChain, etc.)
  • Knowledge of AI-powered development tools or building AI-enabled applications
  • Experience applying AI to engineering challenges or customer-facing features
  • Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)

Nice to have

  • Understanding of commercial payments, money movement, B2B payables, or payment processing
  • Experience with cloud platforms, microservices, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Knowledge of API design, integration patterns, and distributed systems
  • Familiarity with observability, monitoring, or DevOps practices
  • Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
  • Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

What the JD emphasized

  • agentic AI
  • LLMs
  • machine learning

Other signals

  • AI-powered platforms
  • agentic AI
  • LLMs
  • machine learning
  • AI integration