About UsVisa 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 DescriptionThe Opportunity:We are seeking an accomplished Staff Software Engineer to help shape the technical strategy and architecture of next-generation Data Engineering and Generative AI platforms within Visa's Payment Fraud Disruption engineering team.This role combines deep hands-on engineering with technical leadership. You will influence architecture, guide engineering practices, mentor engineers, and lead the delivery of scalable data and AI platforms supporting fraud detection, investigation, risk intelligence, and operational excellence.The ideal candidate brings strong expertise in distributed systems, data platforms, cloud-native architectures, and Generative AI, along with a track record of leading complex technical initiatives.What You Will Do:Lead the architecture, design, and development of scalable data platforms, APIs, and distributed services.Design real-time and batch processing solutions supporting fraud intelligence, analytics, and machine learning workloads.Drive production adoption of Generative AI, RAG, intelligent copilots, and agentic workflows.Partner with Product, Data Science, Platform Engineering, and Security teams to define technical strategy and execution plans.Improve scalability, reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence across critical platforms.Mentor engineers, establish reusable patterns and engineering standards, and influ
