Staff Software Engineer - Open Banking

As part of the initiative, we are building Visas Open Banking engineering team in Bangaloredesigned from the ground up to be AI-first. Every engineer in this team will work in close collaboration with Generative AI agents as development companions, leveraging Visas extensive portfolio of AI models, tools, and experimentation platforms. This AI-augmented approach will supercharge every stage of the engineering lifecyclefrom solution design and code generation to testing, deployment, monitoring, and continual service improvementenabling us to deliver innovative, high-quality connectivity solutions at unprecedented speed and scale.

Role Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer in this team, you will:

• Lead the design and implementation of new features and systems, ensuring it meets the highest standards of scalability, reliability, and performance
• Build high-performance, scalable APIs integrating with both documented and undocumented banking interfaces.
• Co-develop integrations / features side-by-side with GenAI agents to dramatically increase speed-to-market and code quality.
• Operate in a true DevOps modelowning build, deploy, and maintain responsibilities in the cloud.
• Continuously experiment with Visas rich portfolio of Generative AI models (transformers, LLMs, GANs, VAEs, multimodal models) and cutting-edge AI tools for production and innovation.
• Deliver new features on a rapid cadence (every few days) with end-to-end accountability.

What You Will Do

• AI-Powered Development
  • Partner with GenAI agents for code generation, refactoring, and automated testing.
  • Experiment in Visas AI sandbox, where multiple GenAI models and frameworks are available for employee-driven innovation.
  • Apply Generative AI models to API integration challenges, anomaly detection, and intelligent automation.
• Open Banking Integrations
  • Build components integrating with banks APIs to aggregate and enrich consumer financial data.
  • Handle high-load systems with stringent uptime requirements.
  • Work with Visas Tink technologies stack: Java, Node.js, JavaScript, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, SQL, Datadog and much more.
• Cloud-Native DevOps
  • Own end-to-end delivery: design, build, deploy, monitor, and maintain services in AWS/Kubernetes/Docker environments.
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automated observability using Datadog and related tooling.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to ensure high availability and operational excellence.
• Collaboration & Mentorship
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
  • Contribute to AI-first engineering culturesharing learnings from model experimentation and leveraging AI engineering assistants.
  • Your DNA would include following and creating software best practices and processes
  • Youll lead meeting and discussions with cross-functional and non-technical teams
  • You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and above all, you are a team player!

This is a hybrid position.Expectationofdays intheoffice will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (eg Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience
• Preferred Qualifications:5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (eg
• Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field and at least 8-12 years of Software Development Experience or a Masters with at least 6-12 years of Software Development Experience
• We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer with experience of building innovative and scalable products
• You understand the trade-offs of speed vs quality on technical decisions and look at problems from different angles
• You also invest time in your own, and the team’s development to build up your overall knowledge
• We would like you to have: Experience leading technical strategy and architecture for new systems and enhancing and modernizing legacy systems Proven experience as a strong Senior/Staff Engineer, leading technical teams in fintech or full stack/backend systems
• Extensive experience work…