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Staff Software Engineer (7+ years, Java)

Visa

Visa

Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Indiana, USA
Posted on Oct 7, 2025

Company Description

Visa 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.

Job Description

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s 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 you’ll 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.

Value Added Service PD team is seeking a Full Stack Java Developer with experience (5+ years) specific to Web Application development in Java/J2EE programming (with UI/UX experience in Angular, React). The candidate must have good knowledge and experience on object-oriented programming (OOP) while supporting, leading, and training in software management use with little or no direction. This would include all aspects such as analyzing, designing, coding and unit testing core modules of the new Online application and working with a global team of developers, SMEs and architects. The candidate would be a part of a high-performance global team responsible for the delivery of features in Brand and Marketing Applications. As a key member of the delivery execution team, candidate would need to create scalable designs, write maintainable code, reusable components/services/utilities, and test cases. Qualifications include good organizational skills, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, good time management skills, ability to work independently, and effectively communicate with team members. The candidate must be capable of working in all phases of the application system development life cycle. The successful candidate will become a recognized Subject Matter Expert within Visa, responsible for contributing to the development and implementation of Brand and Marketing tools application.

Essential Functions:

  • Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability

  • You will help our customers achieve their real goals by understanding their requirements and how they respond to their business needs

  • You will use technologies that include Java 8 and above, REST, Spring Boot , Angular, React and above

  • You will analyze business requirements and architect a solution that is robust and scalable along with providing technical documentation of solutions.

  • You will leverage on new technologies to build the next generation of Payments ecosystem services

  • You will develop and deliver new features every few weeks and be responsible for them end-end

  • You have work and academic experience that will demonstrate proficiency and ease with programming languages, code quality initiatives, scripting languages and operating systems

  • You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and above all, you are a team player!

The Skills You Bring:

  • Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale

  • Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions

  • Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)

  • Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability

  • Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

  • Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
•5+ years of Full Stack Java Development in a containerized microservices architecture using Java/Spring Boot, with strong UI/UX development experience in Angular, React JS

Preferred Qualifications
•5 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters)
•Multi-disciplinary skills and experience in ideation, software design, programming, debugging, and optimization.
•Experience of building REST based web services & web applications using Java and Spring framework
•Experience writing unit and integration test cases
•Solid understanding of Object-Oriented design and programming concepts
•Expertise in front-end technologies, including JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 and third-party libraries such as ReactJS, Angular, jQuery
•Experience with databases (SQL or NoSQL)
•Responsible for the architecture, design, development, and implementation of software applications.
•Evaluate and introduce technology tools and processes that enable Visa to develop products and solutions, embrace business opportunities, and improve operational efficiency.
•Experience in working on Microservices and containerization such as Docker and Kubernetes.
•Ability to work quickly in an agile environment, part of an on-call rotation duty among other engineers.
•Experience with GIT, Jira and Jenkins. Participate in Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery pipeline
•Excellent communications skills (verbal and written).
•Flavors of GenAI: Experience and understanding of Generative AI technologies and their applications.
•Agentic Framework: Understanding of the agentic framework and mindset for leveraging Generative AI.
•Innovation: Ability to think creatively about how to apply GenAI to improve and innovate within the payment technology space.

Additional Information

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.