Staff Software Engineer, Sr. Consultant (Agentic AI, Cloud, LLM, API)

Engg; Foster City (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa’s Technology Organization is actively hiring versatile, curious Software Engineers to tackle complex global challenges. You will join a multi-functional team designing, building, and testing software that serves billions of users.

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will focus on leveraging AI to solve engineering and customer challenges, integrating agentic AI, LLMs, and ML to boost productivity and experiences across B2B, B2C, P2P, and G2C flows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 5+ years with an Advanced Degree or 11+ years with a PhD.
• Experience with AI agent frameworks, LLMs, or generative AI applications.
• Knowledge of AI-powered development tools or building similar systems.
• Understanding of commercial payments, money movement, B2B payables, or payment processing.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern architectures.
• Knowledge of API design, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives

Responsibilities

• Design AI-powered solutions that improve engineering productivity and customer-facing features.
• Lead cross-functional technical initiatives and drive AI adoption standards.
• Develop scalable platforms and services that integrate AI into Visa's payment systems.
• Mentor teammates and contribute to ongoing learning opportunities.

Skills

AI agent frameworks

LLMs

APIs & microservices

Distributed systems

Programming languages (Java/C++)

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Advanced Degree (Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

PhD

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

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.

The Opportunity

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Software Engineer, 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.

Join the Commercial and Money Movement Solutions (CMS) organization as a Senior Staff Engineer focused on leveraging AI to solve complex engineering and customer challenges. You will work on innovative solutions that combine deep technical expertise with AI/ML capabilities to enhance developer productivity, improve customer experiences, and drive next-generation commercial payment and money movement technology for B2B, B2C, P2P, and G2C flows.

The Work itself

Design and architect AI-powered solutions that solve engineering productivity challenges and enhance customer-facing products across CMS Lead technical initiatives leveraging agentic AI, LLMs, and machine learning to automate workflows and improve software quality Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings Drive experimentation with emerging AI technologies and make technical decisions on adoption and standards Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions. Develop scalable platforms and services that integrate AI capabilities into Visa's commercial payment and money movement systems Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities

Essential Functions

Works directly with product owners to gather and refine requirements across products, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions across the organization. Develops and designs advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable, integrating AI capabilities with Visa's technical ecosystem Provides domain expertise on the development of technical documentation of solutions and contributes to standard processes in technical documentation as needed. Plays a key role in the development and delivery of new features across products from end-to-end.

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 Basic 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• Master's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum six (6) years of experience in a directly related field OR Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum eight (8) years of experience in a directly related field OR Minimum eleven (11) years of directly related experience
• Experience with AI agent frameworks, LLMs, or generative AI applications (Claude, GPT, etc.)
• Knowledge of AI-powered development tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, etc.) or building similar systems
• Experience applying AI to solve engineering challenges or customer-facing product features
• Understanding of commercial payments, money movement, B2B payables, or payment processing
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern architectures
• Knowledge of API design, microservices, and distributed systems
• Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives

The Skills You Bring

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
• AI Expertise: Experience with agentic AI, LLMs, AI agent frameworks, or machine learning applications
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)
• Architecture & Design: Proven track record designing scalable systems that integrate AI capabilities
• Builder: Experience building AI-powered features for engineering productivity or customer-facing applications
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scr