SW Engineer

AI in this role

chatgptclaudecopilot

prompt-engineering

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

Role Summary:
The SW Engineer is responsible for conducting, planning, or overseeing one or more aspects of the analysis, design, programming, debugging, and modification of computer programs for commercial or end user applications. This role involves writing code, completing programming tasks, and performing testing and debugging of applications. The SW Engineer also completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance, and may interface with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications or develop cost estimates, budgets, and schedules.

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:

Works under close guidance to implement basic enhancements and modifications to existing software that complies with design specifications and meets security best practices.
Designing and implementing test automation code to ensure high-quality software delivery.
Engages with team members to receive feedback on code.
Follows instructions from manager to implement improvements to code, processes, and designs with and understands customer/business objectives.
Consistently produce high-quality code, including modular and reusable components.
Resolve issues with static code analysis and security scans.
Troubleshooting and resolving bugs as they come up.
Participate in all phases of the SDLC to complete deliverables on schedule.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience.
Experience with Core Java and Java web application development for RESTful web services.

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field OR
Minimum three (3) years of directly related experience.
Desire to work with and share new and innovative ideas, constantly expanding your knowledge.
Knowledge in accessing data using Spring Data, JPA and JDBC.
OOP Design Skills and experience with design patterns.
Practical experience with prompt engineering and context management, including memory handling and structured inputs for LLMs.
Demonstrated use of AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) as part of professional software development workflows.
Knowledge w/ Spring Framework, Sprint boot and Build Tools, such as Maven.
Knowledge in Reactive and Event drive programming using Kafka .
Ability to understand and author APIs.
Practice in Test-driven Development.
Knowledge in multi-threading and concurrency.
Experience with CI/CD using Jenkins , Docker, Kubernetes.
Working with Checkmarx, Qualys, Aqua and similar code/system scanners and remediation for security focused development.
Experience working with API automation with Java based frameworks (Rest Assured, TestNg or JUnit) or JavaScript based frameworks (Jasmine or Jest).
Frontend technology experience (React or Angular based development).

Information for US Applicants

For roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $91,600.00 to $ 142,300.00 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.

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

SW Engineer at Visa rates 13 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.

Classification

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

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.

Key facts

SW Engineer is an open job at Visa.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The listed salary is $92k-$142k a year.
The role is based in US - Bellevue, WA.
The job was posted on October 6, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Visa. Apply on Visa

Prepare for this job

A free preview built only from this posting: what it asks for, what you could be asked in an interview, and how to adjust your resume.

Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Prompt EngineeringChatGPTClaudeCopilot

Questions you could be asked

How do you structure and test a prompt to get consistent output from a language model?
Walk me through how you've used ChatGPT in your day-to-day work.
What are the limits of Claude that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
What's a project where you used Copilot hands-on?

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List these exact terms on your resume: Prompt Engineering, ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them — a tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.

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