Software Engineer (6months to 2 Years of experience - JAVA/Python Backend, CICD, APIs, GEN AI, Microservices, Cloud)

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’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. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions. 

The Work itself: 

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability 
• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings 
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads 
• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions. 
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology 
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities 

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrates basic knowledge and asks questions about project requirements.
• Reviews and asks questions about solution strategies that improve the design and functionality of a payment product feature.
• Applies standard processes on the use of front-end programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements, under close guidance.
• Works under close guidance from others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
• Identifies and advances bugs that threaten website functionality

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

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technology-engineering discipline. 1-2 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s degree or Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters) in Computer Science, or related technology-engineering discipline

Proficiency in at least one backend language used at scale: Java, Python, Go, Scala, or C++ Solid understanding of core CS fundamentals: Data structures, algorithms, OOP, basic system design

Experience contributing code in Agile/Scrum teams across the full SDLC (design → build → test → deploy) Distributed Systems & Microservices

Hands-on experience developing microservices-based applications

Familiarity with: RESTful APIs (HTTP, JSON) Service-to-service communication

Exposure to scalable, highly available systems, even at smaller scale Understanding of fault tolerance, performance, and reliability (conceptual level is acceptable)

DevOps, Tooling & CI/CD (Strongly Preferred)

Practical experience with: Git (including branching and code reviews)

Maven for builds Jenkins or similar CI/CD tools

Exposure to: Automated testing and deployment pipelines Logging, monitoring, and system availability concepts

Familiarity with: Docker and Kubernetes (basic exposure is sufficient)

Data & Streaming Technologies

Experience using: Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra)

Exposure to event-driven or streaming systems, especially: Apache Kafka Basic understanding of data analytics and statistical modeling (usage-focused, not research-heavy) Agentic / AI-Assisted Development (Emerging but Valued)

Exposure to AI-powered developer tools, such as: GitHub Copilot Claude Cline Power Automate Ability to use these tools to: Accelerate development Improve code quality

Assist with automation or workflow efficiency (Deep AI modeling experience is not required.) Frontend & Web Exposure (Nice-to-Have)

Basic familiarity with: HTML Modern frontend frameworks (React or Angular) is a plus Experience supporting e‑commerce or web-based user experiences

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.