Senior Software Engineer

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

At Visa, we are passionate about making a difference. We lead the way in disrupting fraud from multiple vectors. In this role you will be joining an exciting, innovative business new to the Visa family.

At Featurespace, we are the world leader in Enterprise Financial Crime prevention, using cutting-edge machine learning technology to fight fraud and money laundering. As the inventors of Adaptive Behavioral Analytics and creators of the ARIC™ platform, we are trusted by customers across 180+ countries. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help shape the future of our SaaS platform, playing a key role in delivering next-generation fraud prevention solutions at scale.

The Opportunity 

As a Senior Software Engineer at Featurespace, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and scaling our global, multi-tenant SaaS platform. This hands-on role offers the chance to make a significant impact by leveraging cutting-edge technologies to combat financial crime and deliver innovative solutions to customers worldwide. 

If you thrive in a collaborative, innovative, and fast-paced environment, this is your chance to lead, mentor, and shape the future of our platform while delivering high-impact solutions in a startup-style environment. 

In this role, you will:

• Lead the design and development of services and infrastructure for our SaaS platform, utilizing technologies like React, TypeScript, Node.js, Java SpringBoot, and AWS.
• Own and drive complex technical projects, guiding the team through architectural discussions and implementation to ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Collaborate across teams with engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists to design and build end-to-end features that solve real customer problems.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to gather and refine product requirements, aligning them with technical strategies to enhance our platform’s capabilities.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure and managed services, ensuring our systems are secure, performant, and scalable as our customer base continues to grow globally.
• Mentor junior engineers, foster best practices in code quality, automated testing, and architecture decisions across the team.
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks in our multi-tenant architecture, ensuring uptime and reliability across the tech stack.
• Take operational responsibility for the services owned by your team, including participation in on-call rotations to ensure the health of production services.

Why Join Us? 

• Be part of a growing, passionate team that’s leading the fight against financial crime with innovative technology.
• Work on impactful projects that shape the future of fraud prevention and AML solutions.
• Collaborate with a talented group of engineers in a fast-paced, learning-focused environment.
• This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

This is a hybrid position. There is an expectation of 3 days in the office per week.

Basic Qualifications

• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD,MD)

Required experience:

• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, ideally within high-scale SaaS environment. 
• Proficiency in React, TypeScript, Node.js, Java SpringBoot, and AWS technologies. 
• Strong understanding of systems design, data structures, and algorithms for building distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures and managing services in production environments. 
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, source control, and modern development environments. 
• Ability to lead technical projects, mentor team members, and influence architectural decisions. 
• A commitment to automated testing practices and ensuring the reliability of systems. 
• Strong skills in troubleshooting and optimizing performance in large, distributed systems. 

Great to have:

• Experience working in fraud prevention or financial technology domains. 
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases in production environments (e.g., PostgreSQL, DynamoDB). 
• Experience with large-scale data processing, storage technologies, and RESTful API design. 
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, S3, and familiarity with Kubernetes. 
• Knowledge of message queueing systems and event-driven architectures.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

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 protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 100,000.00 to 141,250.00 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.