Staff SW Engineer (Python, Gen AI & Agentic AI)

Visa Consolidated Support Services India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa Consolidated Support Services India seeks a seasoned technologist to drive innovation in Asia Pacific, especially India. You will lead small multi-skilled squads, prototype rapidly, and scale pilots to commercial solutions.

You will collaborate with UX, engineering, and partner teams to deliver products, services, and tools, while mentoring engineers and shaping the roadmap. This hybrid role combines ideation with execution in a payments-focused environment.

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.
• 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience in technical leadership/mentoring roles.
• MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Bonus Qualifications: 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.

Responsibilities

• Be at the heart of developing new ideas into demo-able products, and ultimately to commercial product.
• Work alongside and collaborate with UX, engineering, and partner teams to deliver products, features, services, and tools.
• Drive rapid prototyping cycles from technical requirements, software designs, programming, debugging, and optimization.
• Explore and innovate new technologies, features, and tools.
• Consult on a regular basis with leadership to align expectations and deliverables.
• Be scrappy and work with the small team to the fullest to work on multiple parallel POCs and incubation efforts.
• Able to scale the successful pilots to full commercial solutions.
• Use stubs as needed to simulate capabilities lighting up soon.
• Work collaboratively across team boundaries to share common infrastructure and functional capabilities. Provide feedback into core product teams to influence their roadmap and strategy

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Rapid prototyping

Software architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Multi-disciplinary

Problem solving

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Advanced degree (MBA/JD/MD) optional

Tools

Spring ecosystem

Kafka

MySQL

APIs

Job description

Job Description

Are you passionate about conceptualizing, nurturing, developing, and proving new ideas and developing them into new solutions Would you like to help create the next major innovation in and around the payment landscape pioneering and leveraging the most advanced devices, hardware and software in the world, anything, and everything in and around worlds largest payment ecosystem

We’re looking for a seasoned individual to drive game-changing innovation in and around Visa’s partner ecosystem for Asia Pacific, and specifically India. You should have experience technically leading and mentoring small multi-skilled squads of 3-4 engineers capable of rapid prototyping of new ideas as well as scaling these to commercial solutions. You 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.

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

Responsibilities

• Be at the heart of developing new ideas into demo-able products, and ultimately to commercial product.
• Work alongside and collaborate with UX, engineering, and partner teams to deliver products, features, services, and tools.
• Drive rapid prototyping cycles from technical requirements, software designs, programming, debugging, and optimization.
• Explore and innovate new technologies, features, and tools.
• Consult on a regular basis with leadership to align expectations and deliverables.
• Be scrappy and work with the small team to the fullest to work on multiple parallel POCs and incubation efforts.
• Able to scale the successful pilots to full commercial solutions.
• Use stubs as needed to simulate capabilities lighting up soon.
• Work collaboratively across team boundaries to share common infrastructure and functional capabilities. Provide feedback into core product teams to influence their roadmap and strategy

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

Passion for innovation, new ideas, quick prototyping, hackathons etc.

• 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.
• 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 on diverse platforms.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience in technical leadership/mentoring roles.
• MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Bonus Qualifications: 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.
• Mobile application development experience is a plus.
• Working experience in Spring eco-system, Kafka and MySQL.
• Hands-on and up to date with Gen AI and Agentic AI technologies and space