{"id":3982776,"url":"https://alion.io/job/visa-staff-sw-engineer-front-end-ui","title":"Staff SW Engineer - Front-End / UI","company":{"id":83,"name":"Visa","domain":"visa.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/visa","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":85,"open_postings":128,"ghost_share":0.008,"stale_share":0.547,"repost_share":0.039,"time_to_fill_p50_days":33,"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"}},"role":"Frontend","role_family":"Frontend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Bellevue, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":141100,"max":226000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":226000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Angular","optional":false},{"name":"ChatGPT","optional":false},{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Vue.js","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-09T20:20:04Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-09","last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T20:20:04Z","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\nRole Summary\nAs 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.\nYou 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.\nYou 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.\nAll 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign and develop sophisticated web-based user interfaces and front-end applications that are responsive, accessible, performant, secure, and scalable.\nProvide technical leadership for front-end architecture, including component architecture, application structure, state management, API integration, performance, and reusable design patterns.\nPartner closely with UX/UI designers and product managers to translate user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and product requirements into polished digital experiences.\nBuild and maintain reusable UI components, shared front-end libraries, and scalable design-system patterns that create consistent experiences across products.\nWrite clean, maintainable, reusable, and well-tested front-end code while establishing engineering standards and development best practices.\nLead technical design and code reviews and mentor engineers on UI architecture, component design, accessibility, performance, testing, and maintainability.\nDiagnose and resolve complex front-end issues involving browser behavior, rendering, state management, API interactions, responsive design, performance, and cross-browser compatibility.\nDevelop and improve front-end testing strategies, including unit, component, integration, accessibility, and end-to-end testing.\nChampion web accessibility and inclusive design practices to deliver effective experiences across devices and user abilities.\nUse application monitoring, performance metrics, and user-experience signals to improve page performance, reliability, usability, and customer experience.\nBuild and enhance developer tooling, frameworks, and automation that improve front-end developer productivity, testing, deployment, and code quality.\nCollaborate with back-end and platform engineering teams to define API contracts, data flows, error handling, authentication, and integration patterns.\nEvaluate emerging front-end technologies and recommend technical solutions that improve engineering effectiveness and product performance.\nServe as a front-end engineering subject-matter expert, influencing architecture and engineering practices across teams without requiring direct people-management responsibility.\nParticipate in incident response and on-call support as needed, troubleshooting complex issues and helping drive resolution.\nVisa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.\nQualifications\nBasic Qualifications\n5+ 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.\nExperience in software engineering with a strong focus on front-end or user interface development.\nHands-on experience developing modern web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript and a modern front-end framework such as React, Angular, or Vue.\nExperience with HTML, CSS, modern browser technologies, and responsive web development.\nExperience building reusable, component-based user interfaces for production applications.\nExperience integrating front-end applications with RESTful APIs and/or service-based architectures.\nExperience with front-end testing practices and frameworks, including unit, component, integration, and/or end-to-end testing.\nExperience debugging complex front-end applications and optimizing performance, reliability, and usability.\nExperience collaborating with UX/UI Design, Product Management, back-end engineering, and QA teams.\nExperience leading technical design and code reviews and influencing engineering standards across development teams.\nPreferred Qualifications\n6 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.\nDeep hands-on experience with React and TypeScript, or comparable modern front-end technologies.\nExperience designing and implementing large-scale front-end architectures and complex enterprise web applications.\nExperience building or contributing to design systems, shared component 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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\nVaries upon the needs of the department.\nTravel Requirements\nThis position requires travel 5-10% of the time.\nMental/Physical Requirements\nThis 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.\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 protect veteran status. 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