SW Engineer — San Francisco

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 Job Summary: The Software Engineer will join a Platform Engineering team for Visa’s Resolve Online Application. This individual would be responsible for building, modernizing, and supporting applications that integrate across a complex ecosystem of 20+ systems. This role is ideal for a developer who enjoys solving problems across applications, automation, data, and system integrations. The engineer will contribute to the development and modernization of automation frameworks, integration and regression capabilities, and internal tools that improve how applications and data are tested and delivered. While automation and testing are important components of the role, this is a software engineering position with opportunities to take on increased application and full-stack development ownership over time. The role requires someone who can quickly learn new technologies, work through ambiguity, and collaborate across engineering, product, data, and geographically distributed teams. All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work. Key Responsibilities • Design, develop, test, debug, and enhance software applications, automation frameworks, and supporting tools. • Develop scalable automation capabilities for integration and regression testing across applications and interconnected systems. • Contribute to application modernization, migration, and reengineering efforts, including evaluating and adopting new technologies as the platform evolves. • Build and enhance tools that improve data processing, synthetic test data generation, and self-service provisioning. • Write clean, maintainable code, with Java preferred, while applying strong software engineering principles regardless of programming language. • Work with SQL and data-driven applications to support testing, troubleshooting, analysis, and development efforts. • Partner closely with engineering, product, data platform, and business teams to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions. • Support early-stage client and product readiness activities, including integration, user acceptance, and member testing. • Troubleshoot complex issues that span multiple applications, integrations, and teams. • Collaborate with globally distributed teams and coordinate technical requests across regions. • Create and maintain technical documentation for applications, frameworks, tools, and engineering processes. Qualifications Basic Qualifications • Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience. • Strong software development and problem-solving skills. • Experience developing in Java preferred, although experience with other modern programming languages will be considered. • Experience with or strong interest in test automation, integration testing, and automation framework development. • Working knowledge of SQL and comfort working with data. • Ability to quickly learn unfamiliar technologies, applications, and business domains. • Strong communication and collaboration skills with the confidence to proactively engage partners across teams. • Ability to work effectively in a complex environment involving multiple systems, dependencies, and stakeholders. • A proactive, self-directed mindset and willingness to take ownership of problems through resolution. Preferred Qualifications • 2 or more years of work experience. • Experience building or modernizing automation frameworks. • Experience with application or platform migrations. • Experience with synthetic data generation, data tooling, or data processing. • Full-stack development experience. • Experience supporting highly integrated or distributed enterprise applications. Information for US Applicants For roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $101,800.00 to $ 158,100.00 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 Hours Varies upon the needs of the department. Travel Requirements This position requires travel 5-10% of the time. Mental/Physical Requirements This 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. 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 protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.