Hiring: Chief SW Engineer Company: Visa Location: Austin, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 10:17:13 Target Skills & Keywords : Java, Microservices, REST, Spring, Systems Design, gRPC About the job Experience: •12+ years of software engineering experience, including deep hands-on experience building large-scale backend or platform systems. Required Skills: •Visa is a global payments technology company operating at massive scale across more than 200 countries and territories, with CMS serving as a strategic growth area focused on commercial payments and money movement solutions. •Lead the architecture, design, and development of highly scalable, secure, API-centric distributed systems supporting B2B payables, commercial solutions, and money movement products. •Remain hands-on in building core platform components, services, and engineering patterns rather than operating solely at the strategy layer. •Drive technical leadership across teams by establishing software development standards, reusable frameworks, integration patterns, and platform best practices. •Partner closely with product, architecture, and engineering leaders to shape the technical roadmap for next-generation CMS solutions. •Build and evolve cloud-native services with strong emphasis on scalability, resilience, observability, security, and maintainability. •Lead the adoption of GenAI capabilities across the organization, including AI-native product functionality, intelligent automation, and developer productivity use cases. •Design and implement agentic and workflow-driven systems that leverage modern AI capabilities in practical, production-ready environments. Qualifications: •12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience. •15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience •Proven expertise in distributed systems design, cloud-native architecture, and highly scalable service development. •Strong experience building production-grade platforms and services rather than only designing them at a conceptual level. •Demonstrated hands-on experience with GenAI, including AI-native applications, workflow orchestration, intelligent automation, or agent-based systems. •In-depth knowledge of modern service architectures, including microservices, APIs, containers, caching, security, and platform integration patterns. •Demonstrated capacity to influence technical direction across teams while remaining close to implementation and execution. •Strong engineering judgment across reliability, latency, scale, maintainability, and security. •Background in payments, fintech, money movement, or other high-scale transaction environments is a plus. •12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience Compensation: •Competitive benefits and rewards package •In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!