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At a glance
Visa is hiring a Software Engineer - Sr Consultant level in Foster City, CA. It is a full-time hybrid role in Software & IT, asking for at least 8 years of experience, first listed on November 13. The advertised pay is $172,100–$275,800 a year. The description mentions Cybersecurity, Generative AI, Machine learning, Git, AWS and Azure. Visa has 99 other openings in the US, 22 of them in Foster City, CA. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 64 Software & IT openings in Foster City, CA today; the typical one asks for 7 years and advertises about $235,000 a year at the midpoint.
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How the pay compares
Visa advertises $172,100 to $275,800 a year, a midpoint of $223,950 a year. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is higher than about 58% of the 1,279 software & IT jobs in California that publish a yearly rate on USA Jobs 24, where the typical midpoint is $213,000 a year. To see roughly what this leaves after federal and California tax, try our take-home pay calculator.
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About hiring at Visa
Visa has 100 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 9 states. Most are in software & IT (23), data & AI (15) and sales & BD (14). The biggest locations are Austin, TX (32), San Francisco, CA (29) and Foster City, CA (23). None of them is fully remote, none is marked entry level and 90% show pay. We collect Visa's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (Workday), never from job boards or agencies.
The employer's advert
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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/Scrum teams • We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.
Information for US Applicants
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.USA Jobs 24 copied this listing from Visa's official careers site on November 13, 2026 and checked it again November 13, 5:17 AM ET. Visa will never ask you to pay to apply or to buy equipment with a check they send you. If anyone does, it is a scam.
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