Chief Software Engineer

Visa - Bellevue, WA

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Bellevue, WA

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

The Chief Software Engineer at Visa will lead the architecture and strategic direction for the VISA Acceptance Platform team, focusing on merchant payment management solutions. This role involves providing technology leadership, mentoring engineering teams, and ensuring alignment with business strategies for innovative payment acceptance and risk management. The position requires collaboration with other architects and stakeholders to drive the delivery of complex projects while maintaining engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture for key cross-team and cross-product development projects.
• Work with a team of Lead and Chief Architects for Acceptance, Risk, Data, and Analytics domains.
• Establish software development patterns and best practices.
• Ensure all relevant project teams follow common principles and utilize standard technology frameworks.
• Provide leadership across the engineering community to align solutions with platform principles.
• Mentor and build high-performing engineering teams.
• Apply architecture best practices to increase execution velocity.
• Develop secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric architectures.
• Influence technology selection for the enterprise.
• Define deployment topology in collaboration 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 with an Advanced degree, or 6 years with a PhD, or 15+ years of relevant work experience.
• 15+ years of experience in architecture and development, with 5 years in building services frameworks and solutions.
• Proven knowledge of design, architecture, and development of services and frameworks including Micro Services and Container Technologies.
• Deep understanding of integration patterns.
• Experience in continuous delivery and DevOps practices.
• 5+ years experience with containers and related technologies.
• 5+ years experience with micro-services and API gateway.
• Proficiency in Java, Spring, Hibernate, Angular, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, and HTML5/CSS3.
• Knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL stores is a plus.

Nice-to-haves

• Prior knowledge and experience working in Payments.
• Paper publications, patents, and hackathon experience.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)
• FSA/HSA
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness Program