Chief Software Engineer (Full-stack)

Visa - Bellevue, WA

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Bellevue, WA

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

The Chief Software Engineer for the VISA Acceptance Platform team is responsible for providing strategic architecture leadership on large and complex projects related to merchant payment management solutions. This role involves collaborating with a team of Lead and Chief Architects, guiding the architecture requirements and strategy for Risk, Data, and Analytics domains, and ensuring engineering excellence in alignment with business strategies. The position requires a deep understanding of technology leadership and the ability to drive innovative payment acceptance and integrated commerce management solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture for key cross-team and cross-product development projects through architecture/design documents and developing key modules.
• Collaborate with a team of Lead and Chief Architects for Acceptance, Risk, Data, and Analytics domains, and work closely with other site leads and stakeholders.
• Establish software development patterns and best practices through examples and shipping code.
• Ensure that all relevant project teams follow a common set of principles and patterns and utilize a standard set of technology frameworks and libraries.
• Provide leadership across the engineering community to ensure solutions are built in alignment with platform principles and standards.
• Mentor and build world-class high-performing engineering teams.
• Apply architecture best practices to increase execution velocity.
• Develop architectures that are secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric, and global.
• Influence technology selection for the enterprise.
• Define deployment topology by collaborating with peers across the technology organization.
• Optimize the use of Visa's Platforms & Solutions.
• Demonstrate thought leadership through presentations and teaching across Visa.
• Contribute to key Visa and CyberSource technology initiatives.

Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree, or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD), or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience.
• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience.
• BS/MS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering, Science, or Math.
• A minimum of 15 years of experience in architecture and development, with at least 5 years in e-commerce.