Staff Backend Engineer - GenAI Platform Leader

Visa; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the VCS Platform & Acceptance team to design and deliver scalable back-end services, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures. This hybrid role emphasizes GenAI-first practices, architectural leadership, and high-quality, reliable platforms for global commercial payments.

You will mentor junior engineers, guide AI-enhanced design and testing, and collaborate with stakeholders to meet business goals in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s 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.
• Strong hands-on experience with REST APIs, gRPC, J2EE, JDBC, JMS
• Strong hands-on experience with Spring, Spring Batch, Spring Boot, WebFlux, and Vert.x
• Experience in building Generative AI applications, conversational AI, RAG architectures, techniques and libraries
• Experience designing and building backend services, microservices, and distributed systems
• Strong experience with event-driven architecture
• Strong understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and scalable applications
• Strong experience with Agile development and CI/CD using GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, JUnit
• Strong understanding of the full software development lifecycle
• Strong ability to understand and write simple and complex SQL
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, and troubleshooting skills
• Experience in a technical leadership role
• Ability to multitask and handle competing priorities with minimal direction
• Required strong hands-on experience with GenAI / LLM-driven engineering workflows
• Demonstrated GenAI-first approach in both personal execution and team enablement
• Strong experience with Kafka, Redis, or NoSQL datastores
• Hands-on experience with MySQL, DB2, Oracle
• Proven knowledge of shared services and framework development including microservices, container technologies, caching, API gateway, and security
• DevOps experience in infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing, and security practices
• Experience designing reusable frameworks, standards, or platform capabilities The Skills You Bring
• Deep backend engineering expertise using REST APIs, gRPC, J2EE, JDBC, JMS
• Strong command of Spring, Spring Batch, Spring Boot, WebFlux, and Vert.x
• A practical and strategic GenAI-first mindset, helping teams apply AI effectively across design, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and delivery
• Strong understanding of OOP concepts and design patterns
• Strong experience in API development, backend services, microservices, and event-driven architectures
• Strong architectural understanding of high-performance, scalable, reliable, and highly available systems
• Strong CI/CD and engineering automation capabilities
• Strong SQL and database design/query skills
• Ability to lead design discussions and communicate technical ideas clearly across technical and business stakeholders
• Mentoring capability and strong technical leadership presence

Responsibilities

• Design, document, and implement new systems, enhancements, and modifications to existing software aligned with design specifications, security standards, and engineering best practices
• Lead the design and implementation of REST APIs, gRPC services, backend services, microservices, and event-driven solutions
• Build and evolve highly scalable, reliable, resilient, and fault-tolerant applications
• Independently create multiple design artifacts and present designs to team members and stakeholders
• Interact with business and technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality products and services that meet business requirements
• Collaborate with Technical Product Managers to decompose larger solutions into achievable work items
• Drive development quality and support zero-defect delivery expectations
• Contribute to efficient engineering processes through CI/CD pipelines and automation
• Support test engineering and operations teams in troubleshooting, defect research, and issue root cause analysis
• Mentor junior developers to ensure timely delivery of high-quality code
• Identify opportunities for innovation and improvements to standards, processes, and best practices
• Present technical solutions, considerations, and trade-offs in business terms

Skills

REST APIs

gRPC

J2EE

JDBC

JMS

Spring

Spring Boot

WebFlux

Vert.x

GenAI

LLM

Kafka

Redis

NoSQL

SQL

Git

Maven

Jenkins

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Advanced degree (Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

PhD

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Jira

Job description

Visa is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the VCS Platform & Acceptance team to design and deliver scalable back-end services, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures. This hybrid role emphasizes GenAI-first practices, architectural leadership, and high-quality, reliable platforms for global commercial payments.

You will mentor junior engineers, guide AI-enhanced design and testing, and collaborate with stakeholders to meet business goals in a fast-paced environment.