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At a glance
Visa is hiring a Software Engineer in Foster City, CA; Austin, TX. It is a full-time role in Software & IT, asking for at least 3 years of experience, first listed on November 5. The advertised pay is $86,500–$158,100 a year. The description mentions Generative AI, Cybersecurity, Java, Python, Node.js and C#. Visa has 99 other openings in the US, 29 of them in Foster City, CA. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 69 Software & IT openings in Foster City, CA today; the typical one asks for 6 years and advertises about $235,000 a year at the midpoint.
Generative AICybersecurityJavaPythonNode.jsC#C++Machine learning
How the pay compares
Visa advertises $86,500 to $158,100 a year, a midpoint of $122,300 a year. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is lower than about 96% of the 1,334 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 8 states. Most are in software & IT (23), data & AI (21) and sales & BD (9). The biggest locations are Austin, TX (32), Foster City, CA (30) and San Francisco, CA (29). None of them is fully remote, 15% are open to entry-level candidates and 93% 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
This is Visa's own description of the job, copied word for word from its careers site. We have not edited it.
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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
Role Summary:
We are seeking a talented and motivated Software Engineer to join our Payments Products development team. As a key member of the team, you will play a critical role in developing cutting-edge solutions, leveraging innovative technologies, and enhancing the capabilities of our platforms.
You will be tasked to quickly grasp and evaluate new ideas and technologies from both internal and external sources and match them appropriately with emerging technology and business opportunities, building a culture of innovation and a drive for excellence.
Essential Functions:
- Innovative Development: Engage in the design, development, and implementation of innovative software solutions, using generative AI and modern integration patterns. Contribute to a culture of innovation by actively exploring and applying new ideas and technologies.
- AI Solution Engineering: Support the implementation, fine-tuning, evaluation, integration, and deployment of AI components within enterprise applications, with attention to model robustness and operational quality.
- Collaborative Engineering: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and deliver complex projects that integrate emerging technologies with our existing platforms. Work closely with Product Office, Operations & Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Client Support, and other Product Development teams to build comprehensive solutions.
- Continuous Learning: Engage in continuous learning and development, actively seeking opportunities to enhance your skills and knowledge. Collaborate with peers to share insights and drive team growth.
- API and Integration Development: Contribute to the design and development of APIs that enhance the integration of our Payment Product applications, platforms, and solutions.
- Engineering Excellence: Adhere to industry best practices in software development, emphasizing quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, and resilience. Contribute to the management and reduction of technical debt within projects.
- Automation and Best Practices: Implement best engineering practices and automate software development, testing, and deployment processes. Ensure the timely delivery and maintenance of multiple services, focusing on continuous improvement.
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
- Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, hacking beyond traditional solutions
- Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages such as Java, Python, NodeJS, C#, or C++
- AI Builder: Experience building, evaluating, integrating, and deploying Generative AI or machine learning capabilities within modern services and web applications
- Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
- Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as GenAI, Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, and MLOps
- Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, DevOps, and Agile/Scrum teams
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience.
- Expert-level skills in Java, Python, and/or NodeJS; skills in C++ and C# are a plus.
- Experience building Generative AI applications, conversational AI, RAG architectures, techniques, and libraries.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Expertise in application security, SSDLC, and cryptography fundamentals.
- Self-driven and willing to work across technologies and languages.
- Understanding of NLP, including tokenization, word embeddings, and basic sequence models.
- Experience implementing and fine-tuning AI models using frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.
- Understanding of model compression techniques and related trade-offs.
- Awareness of transfer learning concepts and practical applications.
- Ability to design, implement, and integrate AI components into larger systems.
- Familiarity with common robustness issues in AI systems.
- Familiarity with machine learning and deep learning basics, including neural network architectures and training procedures.
- Exposure to machine learning operations (MLOps) and best practices for deploying AI and machine learning models.
- Experience with data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation techniques.
- Proficiency in front-end web development technologies such as ReactJS, Angular, and NodeJS.
- Ability to work with large datasets and perform exploratory data analysis.
- Expertise in multi-threading, concurrency, and error handling.
- Knowledge of version control, CI/CD pipelines, and best practices for deployments.
- Working knowledge of distributed in-memory computing technologies such as Redis.
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 5, 2026 and checked it again November 5, 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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