Lead SW Engineer
Core
Lead architecture, design, and evolution of Search and Analytics capabilities for Visa's Acceptance Platform, enabling high-volume payment acceptance use cases.
Role type
Senior IC Lead Software Engineer (Search & Analytics)
Builds
Open, composable, modular APIs for payment acceptance; search, indexing, analytics, and data-processing pipelines.
Domain
Payments / Financial Technology / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems design, high-throughput data processing, search platform engineering, event-driven architecture, secure software design, modern UI development, cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, Kafka, React/TypeScript, AI/ML engineering practices, payment processing concepts
Preferred skills
organization-wide technical leadership, solving complex cross-domain problems, API-first development, performance tuning, mentoring senior engineers, pioneering AI-enabled engineering practices, file transfer protocols (SFTP), batch processing patterns
Technologies
AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, React, Angular, TypeScript, SFTP
Responsibilities
Provide hands-on technical direction for architecture, design, implementation, scalability, and operational readiness; Design and evolve secure, reliable, scalable search and analytics capabilities; Lead technical design for event correlation, transaction matching, and high-throughput data movement; Mentor senior engineers through design reviews and technical deep dives; Communicate technical strategy and tradeoffs to executive leaders and product partners.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership influence