Chief Software Engineer

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.

Visa DPS Issuing Solutions is seeking a Chief SW Engineer in Denver, Colorado with the following responsibilities:

• Architect, design and code GenAI solutions for increasing development velocity and launching highly scalable and reliable transaction processing systems.

• Actively contribute to critical projects by developing key modules, core frameworks and automation tools.

• Establish engineering best practices for application development, testing, deployment and monitoring.

• Collaborate with business partners to convert product requirements into high quality solutions that comply with all nonfunctional requirements, including security, scalability, availability, and reliability.

• Provide technology leadership and motivate a high performing team of senior engineers to set clear priorities to achieve product/technology goals and KPIs.

• Collaborate with security, privacy, and governance teams to ensure that the products developed comply with relevant policies, standards, and regulations.

• This role is heavily focused on enabling GenAI adoption across the SDLC. Top candidates will have a strong passion and curiosity around how best to leverage GenAI in the payments transaction processing space.

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

Visa will accept applications for this role until at least March 16, 2026. If this is posting, we are still accepting applications

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.

Basic 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.

Preferred Qualifications:
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
Experience in building solutions to accelerate software development through GenAI
Experience designing, developing, and deploying scalable and secure distributed applications.
Expert level proficiency in Java programming language.
Hands-on experience in software product development, leveraging microservices architectures
Experience developing event-driven applications using technologies like Kafka or equivalent SQL and an understanding of other relational database technologies.
Experience with containerization technologies and orchestration tools, including Docker and Kubernetes or equivalent.
Experience working with distributed caching technologies such as Hazelcast and Redis or equivalent.
Experience in deployment and distribution lifecycle with automated and scalable CI/CD tools.
Continuous delivery and DevOps experience, including infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing, and security implementation and practices.
Experience in API development using SOAP or REST, JSON, and XML.

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 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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for this position is 185,000.00 to 296,100.00 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.