Chief Software Engineer (Hybrid/Onsite)

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Visa PPD team is on the forefront of Visa’s innovation, responsible for building digital platforms such as Visa Token Services and Visa Click to Pay. This team is also responsible for setting standards in the payment industry level (EMVCo and W3C) for digital commerce. Platform product team is responsible for developing products like Visa Click to Pay and Token products, collaborate with cross functional teams including, but not limited to, Product, Technology, Commercialization, UX Design/Research, and different Visa Regional teams to build great products at scale and drive adoption.

Visa Click to Pay is built using the latest e-commerce industry specifications (EMV Secure Remote Commerce), that enables a simple, faster and more secure e-commerce checkout experience for Visa cardholders. With Visa Click to Pay, we are transforming the online checkout experience by providing a secure checkout experience online, removing the need to enter your 16-digit primary account numbers, look up passwords, or fill out long forms to make a purchase.

Essential Functions

Want to build the future online checkout experience for Visa cardholders around the world?

Imagine being part of an agile team where your ideas transform the online checkout experience for millions of Visa cardholders globally. Visa Click to Pay team is looking for Chief Software Engineer to join our diverse team, to build new product capabilities and enhancing existing ones. Our platform capabilities will be used by merchants, PSP’s and partners to enable integrated Click to Pay checkout experience in their Guest Checkout flows.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the Click to Pay Engineering team.

• Develop and implement technical strategies to enhance the Click to Pay checkout experience.

• Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of the Click to Pay systems and infrastructure.

• Ensure the security, scalability, and reliability of our checkout technology solutions.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, operations, and customer support, to deliver high-quality checkout products and services.

• Drive innovation and stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies.

• Mentor and develop engineering talent within the organization.

• Lead high-response teams to manage and resolve incidents promptly.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• 18 or more years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or with an Advanced
• Degree.
• Led and delivered complex projects where complexity is a function of a
• combination of these factors – domain knowledge, distributed architecture,
• technical stack, influencing and collaborating with multiple technology
• partners and business partners

• Extensive experience on architecture, design of large-scale platforms and
• application

• Previous experience in back-end development with Java or PHP.
• Strong knowledge of HTML/CSS, ES6 (variables and scoping, array methods),
• code versioning tools like GIT, SVN, etc., popular frontend development tools,
• CI/CD tools, DevOps, performance testing frameworks like Mocha, Node +
• NPM
• Experience working with UI automation with Cypress, Playwright, multi-browser
• testing.
• Hands-on understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and
• scalable web service

• Experience in API Development using SOAP or REST, JSON and XML

-Experience in code development using Eclipse/MyEclipse, Visual Studio Code,
• JetBrains IntelliJ or any major Java IDE

• Experience working with Oracle and Postgres databases.
• Proficiency in JavaScript and JS technologies (e.g., Node.js, React, Angular)
• Experience in the Payment domain is a plus
• Hands-on experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) and their integration
• into business solutions.
• Experience in designing and maintaining highly available (99.999%) and
• performant critical systems.
• Adept at leveraging GenAI tools like Copilot, Claude Sonnet for faster
• development

• Experience in AI/ML is a plus.

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 204,500.00 to 296,700.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.