Associate Front-end Engineer

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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We are looking for an Associate Front-end Engineer to join our Global Front Engineering team to build next generation of tools and products. All our team members are strategic thinkers and conceptual problem solvers who make every decision an informed one. We value hard work, accountability and collaboration, and look for proven skills over big egos. Our team excels in working together, recognizing individual strengths and values each contributor as a key factor in successfully delivering a project. If you understand “Yes, and” over No, this is the team for you. If you are curious, fearless tinkerer and experimenter by nature, and loves learning and building, you will feel at home.
In this role, you will be contributing to the Design Systems libraries, documentation portals, and overall developer experience. You will collaborate closely with designers, software engineers, accessibility experts, product owners, and other stakeholders across Product, Design, and Technology organizations. This position a lot of learning and doing, requiring the use of software development knowledge and advanced AI tools to develop precise, accessible, and responsive custom web and mobile components, patterns, and applications. You will utilize web and mobile technologies knowledge, and AI-powered tools for code and prototype generation, leveraging modern language models and related technologies. The role involves hands-on development, as well as using and refining AI processes to produce high-quality front-end libraries and related full stack solutions. Knowledge or interest in backend systems will elevate contributions to enterprise-grade products, applications and systems. Working with cross-functional teams, you will need to stay informed about the latest advancements in front-end, full stack, DevOps, and generative AI technologies to integrate best practices and innovative solutions into projects.

Role responsibilities:
•    Be an AI-native developer and build engaging, usable, and accessible UI components, patterns, applications, and code libraries for web & mobile technologies, for our public and open-source Design System.
•    Innovate in web and mobile development by adopting and experimenting with AI-driven techniques, across product and developer workflows.
•    Analyze existing software for usability and accessibility issues and provide recommendations for improvement.
•    Work with a diverse team of product owners, UX designers, and developers in a fast-paced environment, with quick iterative cycles.
•    Keep up to date with the latest trends in web and mobile engineering and introduce them into projects when appropriate.
•    Learn and improve UI/UX front-end best practices and accessibility for web and mobile.
•    Learn the current DevOps of the team and seek to improve it through learning, doing and leveraging agentic AI techniques.
•    Field inquiries and requests for support from developers, designers, stakeholders and other users of the system, through developer relations and community support.
•    Stay up to date with the current engineering landscape in the generative AI space and integrate best practices into our solutions.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Relocation assistance is not provided for this role 

Basic Qualifications
•Minimum of 6 months of work experience or a Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Qualifications
•2 or more years of work experience
•Bachelor’s degree in design, CS, MIS, UX or equivalent experience.
•Experience working on design systems engineering, component libraries, single page applications and/or mobile applications.
Essential Qualifications
•Solid foundational understanding of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
•Exposure to modern front-end frameworks, such as Angular and/or React.
•Experience with at least one server-side web application framework and language (e.g., NodeJS or Python).
•Familiarity with mobile app platforms like Flutter or native Android/iOS SDKs, is a plus.
•Ability and passion to implement UI components and layouts, with attention to detail.
•Some experience building Single Page Applications, consuming API/REST services.
•Basic knowledge of UX design principles, wireframes, and prototyping.
•Comfort working independently with guidance and managing time efficiently.
•Basic understanding of web standards and accessibility best practices.
•Ability to analyze requirements and contribute to application design.
•Familiarity with Figma for design collaboration.
•Understanding of responsive design concepts.
•Familiarity with AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Bolt, Lovable, V0 is a plus.
•Exposure to full stack development (Python, FastAPI, LLMs) is a plus.
•Willingness and passion to learn DevOps and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
•Promising problem-solving and communication skills.
•Driven in staying current with generative AI and software engineering best practices.
•Commitment to user-centric and intuitive application development.

Work Authorization: Permanent Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment for this position. Visa will not sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this position.

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 protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 84,600.00 to 119,650.00 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.