{"id":1140127,"url":"https://alion.io/job/visa-senior-software-engineer-4","title":"Senior Software Engineer","company":{"id":83,"name":"Visa","domain":"visa.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/visa","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":86,"open_postings":96,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.542,"repost_share":0.01,"time_to_fill_p50_days":25,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Basingstoke, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":101000,"max_usd":202000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":87},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Tomcat","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"Flink","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"IBM MQ","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"LangChain","optional":false},{"name":"LangGraph","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Splunk","optional":false},{"name":"Spring Boot","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"Unix","optional":false},{"name":"Aider","optional":true},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"Cline","optional":true},{"name":"COBOL","optional":true},{"name":"Copilot","optional":true},{"name":"Cursor","optional":true},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T10:33:59Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T03:23:21Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About Us\nVisa 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.\nAt 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.\nJoin Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.\nJob Description\nBuild AI-driven automation that powers reliability at global scale.\nWork on real engineering problems, writing production-grade software that improves resilience, automation, and operational efficiency across critical payment infrastructure. Join a collaborative engineering team in Austin helping shape the future of reliability engineering at Visa.\nAbout the Role\nAt Visa, our Middleware Product Reliability Engineering (PRE) team is evolving into a modern software engineering organization focused on building intelligent, scalable systems that keep critical platforms running globally.\nThis is a hands-on engineering role where you'll design and build software that improves reliability, automation, observability, and resilience across Visa's middleware ecosystem.\nIf you enjoy writing production-grade code, solving complex distributed systems problems, and seeing your work operate at real-world scale, this role is for you.\nWhy This Role Stands Out\nGlobal impact from day one - your work supports critical payment systems operating across more than 200 countries and territories\nAustin builder culture - work in a highly technical, hands-on environment where engineers are empowered to own problems and drive solutions\nEngineering-first mindset - strong emphasis on software development, automation, platform engineering, and long-term reliability improvements\nAI-driven innovation - build intelligent automation, agent-based workflows, and next-generation reliability solutions\nMeaningful ownership - work on systems that directly improve operational efficiency, resiliency, and engineering productivity\nStrong growth opportunities - clear paths into Senior+, Staff, Principal, or Technical Lead roles\nCollaborative team environment - partner with engineers across the U.S., Europe, India, and Singapore\nContinuous learning - gain hands-on experience with cloud platforms, AI technologies, middleware systems, and modern engineering practices\nCore Technologies\nPython\nJava\nGo\nAI - LLM Frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, Agent Frameworks)\nAWS - GCP - Azure\nKubernetes - Docker\nTerraform - Ansible\nJenkins\nPrometheus - Grafana - Splunk\nKafka - Flink\nSpring Boot\nTomcat\nIBM MQ\nDataPower\nLinux - Unix\nWhat You'll Do\nBuild Production-Grade Software\nDesign and develop scalable automation platforms and reliability tooling\nWrite clean, maintainable code in Python, Java, or Go\nBuild systems for deployment orchestration, testing, validation, and rollback\nDevelop self-service platforms that reduce operational toil and improve engineering productivity\nImprove Reliability & Observability\nEnhance monitoring, alerting, and system visibility across critical middleware platforms\nTroubleshoot production issues and implement durable, long-term engineering solutions\nImprove performance, resiliency, and operational readiness\nLeverage metrics, logs, traces, and automation signals to drive reliability improvements\nContribute to AI-Driven Engineering\nBuild intelligent automation and AI-assisted operational workflows\nDevelop agent-based and LLM-powered solutions that improve reliability and engineering efficiency\nEvaluate, validate, and operationalize AI-generated outputs using sound engineering practices\nPartner with cross-functional teams to bring modern AI capabilities into production environments\nCollaborate and Grow\nWork in an Agile, engineering-focused environment\nContribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, and engineering standards\nShare knowledge and mentor other engineers\nPartner with globally distributed teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions\nVisarequiresat least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.\nQualifications\nBasic Qualifications:\n2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience\nPreferred Qualifications:\n3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)\nWhat We're Looking For\nCore Requirements\n1-5 years of software engineering experience, or equivalent SRE-DevOps experience with strong software development skills\nStrong programming skills in Python, Java, or Go\nSolid understanding of data structures, algorithms, system design, and distributed systems\nExperience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)\nFamiliarity with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes\nExperience with CI-CD pipelines and automation tools including Jenkins, Terraform, or Ansible\nWorking knowledge of observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk\nStrong troubleshooting, debugging, and problem-solving skills\nExperience working in Linux-Unix environments\nStrong written and verbal communication skills\nNice to Have (Not Required)\nExperience with middleware technologies such as Kafka, IBM MQ, DataPower, or Spring Boot\nExposure to AI-ML concepts or modern AI development tools\nExperience with distributed, event-driven, or large-scale systems\nFamiliarity with emerging engineering tools such as MCP, Cline, Aider, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot\nOpen-source contributions, personal technical projects, or hackathon experience\nHow You'll Thrive Here\nWe're looking for engineers who are:\nCurious and eager to learn\nPassionate about building software that solves operational problems\nThoughtful about system reliability, scalability, and maintainability\nComfortable working in complex production environments\nStrong collaborators who enjoy solving challenging problems as part of a team\nBuilders who take ownership and seek opportunities to improve systems and processes\nOur Commitment to Inclusion\nAt Visa, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can thrive and contribute their best work. We welcome candidates with a broad range of experiences and perspectives who are motivated to learn, grow, and make an impact.\nWork Arrangement\nHybrid role based in Basingstoke. Employees typically work in the office 2-3 days per week, with flexibility based on team and business needs.\nVisa is an EEO Employer\nQualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. 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