Staff SW Engineer - Front-End / UI

About Us

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

Role Summary

As a Staff Software Engineer focused on Front-End/UI, you will help shape and build modern digital experiences that are intuitive, accessible, performant, secure, and scalable. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an engineer who enjoys solving complex UI challenges while influencing front-end architecture and engineering standards across teams.

You will spend approximately 60-75% of your time coding and working hands-on with modern front-end technologies. You will build reusable UI components, improve application performance, establish scalable development patterns, and partner closely with UX/UI designers, product managers, back-end engineers, QA, and other engineering teams to turn product ideas and user experiences into high-quality fintech solutions.

You will also serve as a front-end technical leader, helping raise engineering quality through architecture guidance, design and code reviews, mentoring, and adoption of modern tools and practices, including AI-assisted development.

All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools, including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, to support everyday work.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop sophisticated web-based user interfaces and front-end applications that are responsive, accessible, performant, secure, and scalable.
• Provide technical leadership for front-end architecture, including component architecture, application structure, state management, API integration, performance, and reusable design patterns.
• Partner closely with UX/UI designers and product managers to translate user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and product requirements into polished digital experiences.
• Build and maintain reusable UI components, shared front-end libraries, and scalable design-system patterns that create consistent experiences across products.
• Write clean, maintainable, reusable, and well-tested front-end code while establishing engineering standards and development best practices.
• Lead technical design and code reviews and mentor engineers on UI architecture, component design, accessibility, performance, testing, and maintainability.
• Diagnose and resolve complex front-end issues involving browser behavior, rendering, state management, API interactions, responsive design, performance, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Develop and improve front-end testing strategies, including unit, component, integration, accessibility, and end-to-end testing.
• Champion web accessibility and inclusive design practices to deliver effective experiences across devices and user abilities.
• Use application monitoring, performance metrics, and user-experience signals to improve page performance, reliability, usability, and customer experience.
• Build and enhance developer tooling, frameworks, and automation that improve front-end developer productivity, testing, deployment, and code quality.
• Collaborate with back-end and platform engineering teams to define API contracts, data flows, error handling, authentication, and integration patterns.
• Evaluate emerging front-end technologies and recommend technical solutions that improve engineering effectiveness and product performance.
• Serve as a front-end engineering subject-matter expert, influencing architecture and engineering practices across teams without requiring direct people-management responsibility.
• Participate in incident response and on-call support as needed, troubleshooting complex issues and helping drive resolution.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree, or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree such as a Master's, MBA, JD, or MD, or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in software engineering with a strong focus on front-end or user interface development.
• Hands-on experience developing modern web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript and a modern front-end framework such as React, Angular, or Vue.
• Experience with HTML, CSS, modern browser technologies, and responsive web development.
• Experience building reusable, component-based user interfaces for production applications.
• Experience integrating front-end applications with RESTful APIs and/or service-based architectures.
• Experience with front-end testing practices and frameworks, including unit, component, integration, and/or end-to-end testing.
• Experience debugging complex front-end applications and optimizing performance, reliability, and usability.
• Experience collaborating with UX/UI Design, Product Management, back-end engineering, and QA teams.
• Experience leading technical design and code reviews and influencing engineering standards across development teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree such as a Master's, MBA, JD, or MD, or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD.
• Deep hands-on experience with React and TypeScript, or comparable modern front-end technologies.
• Experience designing and implementing large-scale front-end architectures and complex enterprise web applications.
• Experience building or contributing to design systems, shared component libraries, and reusable UI frameworks.
• Strong understanding of web accessibility standards, including WCAG and accessible UI development practices.
• Experience optimizing web applications for rendering performance, page-load performance, responsiveness, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Experience with modern front-end development tooling, automated testing frameworks, build systems, CI/CD, and quality controls.
• Experience integrating complex user interfaces with APIs, microservices, authentication/authorization platforms, and distributed systems.
• Experience providing technical leadership, architecture guidance, and mentorship across engineers or development teams.
• Experience building high-volume, customer-facing digital products, preferably within payments, financial services, fintech, or another highly regulated environment.

Information for US Applicants

For roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $141,100.00 to $ 226,000.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity.Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

Work Hours

Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements

This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.