Job Description The Opportunity

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be expected to operate with a high degree of independence, responsible not only for building high quality software, but also for influencing design decisions, engineering standards, and best practices across the team.

You will work on complex, distributed systems and automation services that are foundational to Visa's infrastructure reliability. You are expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy, translate ambiguous requirements into robust technical solutions, and provide guidance to other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring.

The Work You'll Do

Ownership Design

- Take endtoend ownership of features and services, from design and implementation through deployment and lifecycle support.
- Contribute to and influence system architecture, API design, and technology choices, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and resilient.
- Participate actively in code reviews and design discussions, providing thoughtful feedback and driving alignment with engineering best practices.

Software Development

- Design, develop, test, and maintain highvolume, lowlatency, highly available applications using up-to-date fullstack technologies.
- Implement RESTful services and backend components using Pythonbased frameworks (e.g., Flask, RESTPlus) and integrate with internal and thirdparty APIs.
- Build and evolve responsive, productiongrade user interfaces using modern frontend frameworks such as Angular or React.
- Develop software that adheres to Visa's security, quality, performance, and maintainability standards.

Delivery Operations





- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automated delivery processes using tools such as Git, Jenkins, and containerized environments (Docker).
- Support production systems, participate in incident resolution, and contribute to continuous improvements in stability and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with peers across Global Network Engineering and Visa Technology teams to ensure smooth integration and delivery.
- Proactively identify technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and reliability gaps, and drive solutions to address them.

Collaboration Influence

- Work closely with Product, Architecture, SRE, Security, and QA teams to translate business and platform requirements into technical solutions.
- Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers through pairing, reviews, and knowledge sharing.
- Influence teamlevel and orglevel engineering best practices, including observability, resiliency, and automation.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD,



OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

5+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience with a Bachelors degree, or equivalent experience with an advanced degree.

Proven ability to independently deliver productionquality software in a complex, enterprise environment.

Experience working on highly available infrastructurefocused systems.

Prior experience mentoring engineers or acting as a technical lead on projects.

Familiarity with observability, resiliency engineering, and automation in distributed systems.

The Skills You Bring

Strong handson experience in fullstack development, including:

Backend: Python, REST APIs, JSON, Flask/RESTPlus

Frontend: JavaScript, HTML5, Angular or React

Experience working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and data security concepts.

Solid understanding of software design patterns, data structures, and objectoriented design principles.

Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and Agile development practices.

Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex systems and debug production issues.

Experience integrating thirdparty APIs.

Experience integrating AI/ML or Generative AI capabilities into production software systems

Experience using AIpowered tools to improve coding, debugging, testing.

📌 Staff Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 VISA CONSOLIDATED SUPPORT SERVICES (INDIA
📍 Bengaluru