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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Chief Software Engineer (Hands-On AI Engineering Leader) - **Company:** Visa Inc. - **Location:** Austin, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $195,800 - $313,500 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Application Frameworks, Mobile Application Development, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Software Quality, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Service-Oriented Architecture, Service Development Studio, Software Engineering, Workflow Management Systems, Caching, Generative AI, Backend, Agentic-AI, Containerization, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Low Latency, Api Gateway, Grpc, Serverless Computing, Programming Languages, Microservices - **Published:** November 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/chief-software-engineer-hands-on-ai-engineering-leader-austin-tx--fc8dcab0-67b8-4244-a7c3-fb26aaa73f7b ## About the Role Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Government, Content Management Systems (CMS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, Product Engineering, Distributed Computing, Application Programming Interface (API), * 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience., * 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience * 12+ years of software engineering experience, including deep hands-on experience building large-scale backend or platform systems. * Proven expertise in distributed systems design, cloud-native architecture, and highly scalable service development. * Strong experience building production-grade platforms and services rather than only designing them at a conceptual level. * Demonstrated hands-on experience with GenAI, including AI-native applications, workflow orchestration, intelligent automation, or agent-based systems. * Strong understanding of modern service architectures, including microservices, APIs, containers, caching, security, and platform integration patterns. * Ability to influence technical direction across teams while remaining close to implementation and execution. * Experience using AI to improve engineering productivity, product capabilities, or platform intelligence. * Strong engineering judgment across reliability, latency, scale, maintainability, and security. * Experience with Java and modern backend frameworks such as Spring; however, strong system-building expertise is more important than any single programming language. * Experience with REST, gRPC, shared services, container technologies, API gateways, DevOps, observability, and infrastructure automation. * Background in payments, fintech, money movement, or other high-scale transaction environments is a plus. * Experience working in environments where compliance, security, and global scale are critical. ## Description Visa is seeking a highly technical, hands-on Chief Software Engineer to help lead the next generation of AI-enabled commercial payments and money movement platforms within Commercial and Money Movement Solutions (CMS). This leader will architect and build large-scale cloud-native systems, drive technical direction across teams, and apply GenAI to both product innovation and engineering productivity. What you will do: * Lead the architecture, design, and development of highly scalable, secure, API-centric distributed systems supporting B2B payables, commercial solutions, and money movement products. * Remain hands-on in building core platform components, services, and engineering patterns rather than operating solely at the strategy layer. * Drive technical leadership across teams by establishing software development standards, reusable frameworks, integration patterns, and platform best practices. * Partner closely with product, architecture, and engineering leaders to shape the technical roadmap for next-generation CMS solutions. * Build and evolve cloud-native services with strong emphasis on scalability, resilience, observability, security, and maintainability. * Lead the adoption of GenAI capabilities across the organization, including AI-native product functionality, intelligent automation, and developer productivity use cases. * Design and implement agentic and workflow-driven systems that leverage modern AI capabilities in practical, production-ready environments. * Mentor senior engineers and help raise the technical bar across the organization through design leadership, code quality, and engineering excellence. * Influence enterprise-level technology choices, deployment patterns, and platform strategy in alignment with Visa engineering principles. Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.