Senior Staff Software Engineer (Sr. Consultant) - GenAI Enablement

Engg; Ashburn (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

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, building GenAI-powered applications and scalable AI systems.

This hybrid role blends architecture, leadership, and hands-on development. You will mentor teams, design GenAI solutions, and collaborate across product and security to deliver secure, production-grade software.

Qualifications

• Experience building GenAI-enabled apps with architecture and frameworks.
• Hands-on full-stack development across backend and frontend.
• Experience with data pipelines and CI/CD automation.
• Knowledge of governance, security, and responsible AI.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver GenAI-enabled applications.
• Develop end-to-end AI apps with Python, FastAPI, React/TypeScript.
• Design data pipelines and CI/CD for AI systems.
• Ensure security, governance, and responsible AI practices.
• Mentor engineering team and drive scalable AI systems.

Skills

GenAI Architecture

LangGraph

LangChain

Haystack

AWS GenAI

RAG

LLMOps

Full-Stack Dev

Python

FastAPI

React

TypeScript

APIs

CI/CD

Security

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Advanced Degree

PhD

Tools

FAISS

Pinecone

Weaviate

OpenSearch

FastAPI

GraphQL

Job description

About Us

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.

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.

Opportunity

We are seeking a seasoned Fullstack Senior Staff Software Engineer with experience building GenAI-enabled applications. We're looking for someone who is both a hands-on full-stack engineer and a team leader capable of designing, developing, and deploying GenAI-powered applications. You will mentor an engineering team while delivering scalable AI systems that integrate with Visa’s product ecosystem, developer platforms, and internal operational tools. This role blends architecture, leadership, full-stack development, cloud engineering, and GenAI frameworks. As a Visa Senior Staff Software Engineer (internal title: Sr. Consultant), you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.

The Work itself

Global Operations holds the responsibility of ensuring Visa’s diverse portfolio of commercial services are performing optimally, meeting stringent availability targets and exceeding our clients’ expectations. By architecting automation and GenAI into our operational DNA, and deeply embedding AIOps into our strategic foundation, Global Operations, the engine room of production operations, is well positioned to think big, act quickly and innovate with intention. Working with highly integrated, high-throughput systems, an equally high importance must be placed on robust observability, intelligent event detection and incident management. Global Operations sets the operational standards to support the business demands of today and the operational needs of tomorrow as technologies continue to evolve and adjust the way we work to support the business. Through blame free post mortems, intellectual curiosity and problem solving we turn reactive into proactive and create an environment that provides the support and mentorship for our team members to learn and grow.

The Skills You Bring

GenAI Architecture & Framework Development Architect and deliver GenAI-enabled applications leveraging: LangGraph, LangChain, Haystack, or similar agent frameworks AWS GenAI services (Bedrock, SageMaker, "Strands"-style agent pipelines, embeddings, vector stores) RAG architectures, custom LLM orchestration, model evaluation, LLMOps workflows

• Build reusable GenAI components, SDKs, pipelines, and abstraction layers for engineering teams. Define best practices for: Prompt engineering and evaluation LLM safety, guardrails, and content filtering Embedding generation and vector database integrations Model lifecycle governance and deployment optimization
• Full-Stack Engineering (Hands-on Development) Develop end-to-end AI applications using: Backend: Python, FastAPI, Flask, Node.js Frontend: React + TypeScript, UI component frameworks, REST/GraphQL integration Build secure APIs, microservices, event-driven components, and backend integrations for AI systems. Design intuitive, responsive, production-grade user interfaces for GenAI-powered tools.
• Data Pipelines & CI/CD Engineering Design and build data workflows supporting AI systems, including: ETL/ELT pipelines Data preparation for LLM training/fine-tuning Embedding pipelines and retrieval data stores Implement CI/CD automation leveraging: Jenkins, GitHub/Bitbucket, Jira, Wiki, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, Artifactory or similar systems Automated testing, containerization, deployment, quality gates Infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation, Terraform) Ensure automated monitoring, logging, observability, and rollback strategies.
• Governance, Security & Responsible AI Apply Visa’s standards for: Model explainability Data governance and redaction Security boundaries, access control, encryption Responsible AI guidelines and compliance expectations Work with cybersecurity teams to ensure secure production deployments.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.
• Worked with Agile SDLC process and SAFE agile environment in distributed teams
• Hands‑on experience with LLM frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, Haystack, AWS Bedrock GenAI tools)
• Python backend development (FastAPI strongly preferred)
• Frontend development (React + TypeScript)
• Vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, OpenSearch, etc.)
• Agile Frameworks like SAFE, GitHub / Bitbucket, Jira, ServiceNow, Wiki, CI/CD auto