Job DescriptionVisa is a global payments technology company operating at massive scale across more than 200 countries and territories, with CMS serving as a strategic growth area focused on commercial payments and money movement solutions.
Role OverviewVisa is seeking a highly technical, hands-on Chief Software Engineer to help lead the next generation of AI-enabled commercial payments and money movement platforms within Commercial and Money Movement Solutions (CMS). This leader will architect and build large-scale cloud-native systems, drive technical direction across teams, and apply GenAI to both product innovation and engineering productivity.
What you will do:- Lead the architecture, design, and development of highly scalable, secure, API-centric distributed systems supporting B2B payables, commercial solutions, and money movement products.
- Remain hands-on in building core platform components, services, and engineering patterns rather than operating solely at the strategy layer.
- Drive technical leadership across teams by establishing software development standards, reusable frameworks, integration patterns, and platform best practices.
- Partner closely with product, architecture, and engineering leaders to shape the technical roadmap for next-generation CMS solutions.
- Build and evolve cloud-native services with strong emphasis on scalability, resilience, observability, security, and maintainability.
- Lead the adoption of GenAI capabilities across the organization, including AI-native product functionality, intelligent automation, and developer productivity use cases.
- Design and implement agentic and workflow-driven systems that leverage modern AI capabilities in practical, production-ready environments.
- Mentor senior engineers and help raise the technical bar across the organization through design leadership, code quality, and engineering excellence.
- Influence enterprise-level technology choices, deployment patterns, and platform strategy in alignment with Visa engineering principles.
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days 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.
QualificationsBasic Qualifications:
- 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including deep hands-on experience building large-scale backend or platform systems.
- Proven expertise in distributed systems design, cloud-native architecture, and highly scalable service development.
- Strong experience building production-grade platforms and services rather than only designing them at a conceptual level.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with GenAI, including AI-native applications, workflow orchestration, intelligent automation, or agent-based systems.
- Strong understanding of modern service architectures, including microservices, APIs, containers, caching, security, and platform integration patterns.
- Ability to influence technical direction across teams while remaining close to implementation and execution.
- Experience using AI to improve engineering productivity, product capabilities, or platform intelligence.
- Strong engineering judgment across reliability, latency, scale, maintainability, and security.
- Experience with Java and modern backend frameworks such as Spring; however, strong system-building expertise is more important than any single programming language.
- Experience with REST, gRPC, shared services, container technologies, API gateways, DevOps, observability, and infrastructure automation.
- Background in payments, fintech, money movement, or other high-scale transaction environments is a plus.
- Experience working in environments where compliance, security, and global scale are critical.
Information for US ApplicantsFor roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $195,800.00 to $ 313,500.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity.Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.
Work HoursVaries upon the needs of the department.
Travel RequirementsThis position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical RequirementsThis position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
