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
We are seeking a highly experienced Lead Software Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable, high-performance, and highly available cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who can drive software engineering excellence across application development, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, performance optimization, and production operations.
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering mission-critical services that support high transaction volumes, demanding availability requirements, and global-scale business operations. You will partner with Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, DevOps, and Engineering teams to build resilient and performant systems while mentoring engineers and elevating engineering standards across the organization. The role requires deep technical expertise, strong ownership, and the ability to deliver production-ready solutions in complex, high-scale environments.