Job Description

Company DescriptionVisa 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.Visas Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the worlds most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us youll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.The RoleAre you passionate about conceptualizing, nurturing, developing, and proving new ideas and developing them into new solutions? Would you like to help re-invent the internal business processes with the latest technologies and re-imagine the way things operate?Were looking for a seasoned individual to drive game-changing innovation within Visas internal processes and ecosystem. You should have experience technically leading and mentoring multi-skilled teams capable of rapid prototyping of new ideas as well as scale these to commercial solutions. You and your team will be at the forefront of strategic partnerships, breakthrough technologies, new ideas, hackathons, demos, and rapid prototyping. You will work closely with business development teams, partners, and internal product teams and cross- leverage engineering talent internally and externally.ResponsibilitiesBe at the heart of developing new ideas into demo-able products, and ultimately to commercial productWork directly with product owners, UX, engineering and other partner teams to gather and refine requirements across products, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions across the organizationDrive rapid prototyping cycles from technical requirements, software designs, programming, debugging, and optimizationExplore and innovate new technologies, features, and toolsConsult on a regular basis with leadership to align expectations and deliverablesBe scrappy and work with the small team to the fullest to work on multiple parallel POCs and incubation effortsAble to scale the successful pilots to full commercial solutionsDevelop and design advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable, considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem.Use stubs as needed to simulate capabilities lighting up soonWork collaboratively across team boundaries to share common infrastructure and functional capabilities. Provide feedback into core product teams to influence their roadmap and strategyLeverage AI technologies as-appropriate in day-2-day development and in production systemsProvide domain expertise on the development of technical documentation of solutions and contributes to standard processes in technical documentation as neededPlay a key role in the development and delivery of new features across products from end-to-endThis is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.QualificationsBasic Qualifications:
8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.Preferred Qualifications
9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD

• Passion for innovation, new ideas, quick prototyping, hackathons etc.
• Prior work exploring and innovating new IP, genres, and product experiences
• Professional experience in ideation and incubation which has led to shipping products
• Multi-disciplinary skills and experience in ideation, software design, programming, debugging, and optimization
• Proven skill set and track record in developing one-line ideas into products
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Self-motivated and drive for excellence
• Have an open-minded approach to development strategy and approaches
• Capable of building culture for innovation
• Technical hands-on skills, ideally in multiple technology stacks for web development, APIs and Mobile application development on diverse platforms
• Hands-on and up to date with Gen AI and Agentic AI technologies and space
• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience in technical leadership roles with increasing responsibility
• MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Bonus Qualifications:

• Prior experience working with Agentic AI systems.
• Prior experience working in a start-up or at VC firms in a Resident Entrepreneur capacity
• Financial services and/or payments processing industry experience is a plus
• Patents and other proofs of past success in creating IP

Additional InformationVisa 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.

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