Software Engineer Intern

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

As the world’s largest retail electronic payments network Visa customers trust us with ensuring that they can pay with security and confidence everywhere they want to be.

Software Engineers at Visa look after the systems that form the core of the largest global payments network, allowing consumers and merchants to connect with financial institutions and provide a seamless payment experience. Our mission is to create the next generation of these core systems using the latest technologies to ensure we can maintain this trust going forward and ensure that Visa is ready for the challenges of the future.

When joining our team as an intern, you will have the opportunity to be at the centre of innovation in the payments industry and drive forward the implementation of the future of Visa.

Software Engineering interns may work across development, test and support on cool things like:

Implementation of a single development lifecycle, from Analysis & Design, Build and QA to Security and Deployment.

Support the needs of a new application using technologies like Go, Java, REST Services, Micro Services Databases SQL & NoSQL, Docker, Bitbucket, Unix and Shell Scripting and more.

Develop tools to improve processes.

Qualifications

Visa are a talented team of >30,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We’re looking for the next generation of Techies - dreamers, disruptors, creatives, and trailblazers - who are fascinated by new technology and want to be empowered to change the way business is done.

Successful candidates can demonstrate that they:

Are a current university student graduating in 2028, and available for an 11-week internship starting in June or July of 2027.

Are pursuing a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM/technical field.

Have a passion for Software Engineering involving experience with at least one object-oriented language in an academic, personal, or professional context.

Possess a positive attitude, friendly to others, encouraging of co-operation, honesty, and respectfulness in the workplace.

Are willing to develop payments industry knowledge and understanding to enhance solution quality.

Default to a collaborative mindset, with an ability to empathise with colleagues and establish relationships.

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.