VisaChief SW Engineer
Visa is hiring a Chief SW Engineer in Austin, United States. It pays $196k-$314k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
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About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
Job Description
Job Summary
This position is ideal for an engineer who is passionate about solving challenging business problems and building applications that provide an excellent user experience. The Chief SW Engineer will be an integral part of the Payment Products Development team, focusing on the development of software solutions that leverage data to address business challenges. The role involves hands-on activities including proof of concepts, development, and testing, with adaptability to change tasks according to team requirements.
All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and test automation frameworks and contribute to core product code.
- Deliver high-quality products and features, overseeing the process from initial idea to final delivery, including design, development, testing, release deployments, and post-deployment support.
- Ensure timely delivery of assigned modules within an agile team setting.
- Accurately scope efforts, identify risks, and communicate trade-offs with team members and stakeholders.
- Coordinate and participate in Continuous Integration activities.
- Communicate status updates, issues, and potential risks promptly.
- Perform tasks related to data governance and system infrastructure as required.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
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.
- Experience in developing and testing automation frameworks.
- Experience in delivering products and features from concept to deployment.
- Experience in agile software development environments.
- Experience in scoping, risk identification, and stakeholder communication.
- Experience in Continuous Integration activities.
- Experience in data governance and system infrastructure tasks.
- 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.
- Experience in hands-on proof of concepts, development, and testing.
- Experience in adapting to changing team requirements.
- Experience in supporting post-deployment activities.
- Experience in communicating technical status and risks to stakeholders.
Information for US Applicants
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 protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.How we rate this
Chief SW Engineer at Visa rates 33 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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