Software Development Engineer

Location: Bengaluru, IN
Department: Engineering

Visa is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join their team. As a Software Development Engineer at Visa, you will be an expert problem-solver and builder who designs, implements, and improves software applications and systems.

In this role, you will spend approximately 60–75% of your time coding, working hands-on with code, data, and modern tools (including AI-assisted development, cloud services, and automation frameworks) to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality technology solutions that drive business outcomes in the fintech sector.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine requirements for product components and incorporate feedback into future designs or solutions.
• Translate functional requirements into system designs and communicate component interactions, ensuring alignment with business needs and timelines.
• Design and develop product components, refine code plans, and lead design reviews to ensure completeness and adherence to requirements.
• Contribute to project estimation, considering delivery costs and escalating issues that may cause delays.
• Lead by example in creating, implementing, and maintaining extensible, reusable code, and drive code quality through metrics and best practices.
• Apply debugging tools to resolve moderately complex issues and identify opportunities for automation across products.
• Lead code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards and providing feedback to team members.
• Create complex test plans, identify test gaps, and proactively address defects to minimize customer impact.
• Leverage data analysis and monitoring standards to identify patterns and defects in all environments.
• Respond to incidents during on-call rotations, troubleshoot complex issues, and assist in incident response and resolution.
• Build, enhance, and identify new developer tools to support programs and applications.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to trends and technical solutions to improve product performance and recommend resources to other engineers.

Qualifications:

• 7.5+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, or related field
• Extensive technical experience with JAVA, Spring, Hibernate
• Advanced Java development including concurrency, multithreading, and performance optimization
• Deep understanding of distributed system architectures (microservices, event-driven, service mesh)
• Experience with distributed consensus algorithms (Raft, Paxos) and coordination services (Zookeeper, etcd)
• Proficiency in distributed data management patterns (CQRS, Event Sourcing, Saga patterns)
• Strong knowledge of distributed caching (Redis, Hazelcast, Memcached)
• Experience with message queues and streaming platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar)
• Understanding of CAP theorem, eventual consistency, and distributed transaction management
• Experience building highly available, fault-tolerant systems with disaster recovery capabilities
• Knowledge of service discovery, load balancing, and circuit breaker patterns
• Proficiency in code development using Eclipse/MyEclipse, JetBrains IntelliJ or any major Java IDE
• Strong experience with GIT/Stash, Maven, and Jenkins
• Extensive experience in API Development using SOAP or REST, JSON and XML
• Deep knowledge of API standards including OAuth, SAML
• Experience with GraphQL, gRPC, and modern API gateway patterns
• Understanding of API versioning, rate limiting, and distributed API management
• Experience building async/reactive APIs using Spring WebFlux or similar frameworks
• Experience with SQL datastores (DB2/MySQL) and Unix/Linux platforms
• Understanding of database sharding, replication, and distributed database systems
• Experience with distributed file systems (HDFS, S3, or similar)
• Knowledge of data consistency patterns across distributed datastores
• Proven experience with tools development, automation (CI/CD, Auto Deployment, System Availability), logging and monitoring
• Experience with distributed tracing (Jaeger, Zipkin, OpenTelemetry)
• Working knowledge of streaming platforms like Kafka for real-time data processing
• Hands-on experience with LLM integration and serving at scale (OpenAI API, Azure OpenAI, Claude, Llama, etc.)
• Proficiency in AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Cline, or similar)
• Experience building intelligent APIs with AI/ML inference endpoints in distributed environments
• Understanding of vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB) for RAG applications
• Knowledge of prompt engineering and AI model fine-tuning
• Experience designing scalable microservices architectures handling millions of transactions
• Knowledge of distributed system monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
• Understanding of container orchestration in distributed environments
• Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing
• Proficiency in distributed debugging and troubleshooting techniques

Visa’s purpose is to be the best way to pay and be paid for everyone, everywhere.