Software Engineer – Intern
Summer 2026, Foster City
Posted on 11/21/2025

Visa
No salary listed
San Mateo, CA, USA
In Person
Job Description
As a Software Engineer Intern, you will be placed in one of the technology organizations at Visa and specific assignments will depend on upon your skills sets, interest, and team needs.
We are seeking Software Engineer interns across our Technology organization. As an intern, you will take on meaningful work, engage in out-of-the-box problem solving, and participate in global case challenges and impactful initiatives. You will get the chance to work with multiple teams, systems, and products through a wide variety of data sources. From technology to business, we are looking for people who can innovate, collaborate and bring Visa into the next level of a rapidly evolving digital marketplace.
During the internship, you will work on one or more hands-on projects with the team. Our summer internship also equips you with social and professional networking events and developmental workshops, designed to provide you the resources and training to have an impactful summer.
Some examples of previous summer intern projects:
Self-serve deployment of Kafka clusters using Docker and Kubernetes with auto scale up capability
Creating a natural language Chatbot for searching CDISI knowledge base
Developing a prototype that would automate payments at gas stations
Automating process for removing duplicate compromised account numbers using low latency algorithms
Improving the usage of Visa Checkout across all mobile and web devices
Developing testing tools to identify errors in internal systems
Creating visual monitoring tools to uncover transaction errors
Analyze, design, code and unit test software solutions and enhancements for an application that applies business logic and routes digital currency of global transactions
Develop a robust app factory to be used to create hundreds of mobile banking applications for iOS and Android with a single click
Implementation of a single development lifecycle, from Analysis and Design, Build, QA, Security, and Deployment. Begin to learn best and secure coding practices and standards
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- Students pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, CIS/MIS, Cybersecurity, Business or a related field, with a graduation date in December 2026-August 2027
- Strong communications skills, specifically, the absence of repeated grammatical or typographical errors, clear and concise written and spoken communications that demonstrate professional judgment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency in at least one programming language or technology including, but not limited, to Java, C/C++, C#, .NET, python, Javascript, HTML
- Experience with Write utilities / automation tools using Selenium, Java, REST, Python, Groovy, and more
- Exposure to containerized microservices in Kubernetes environments (e.g., class projects, labs, internships).
- Demonstrated adaptability and willingness to learn new skills and technologies.
- Familiarity with some of the following (preferred but not required):
- Kubernetes (especially kind cluster)
- Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD
- Chainsaw, Prometheus, Splunk, ClickHouse
- Opensearch/Elasticsearch
- Familiarity with software testing principles
- Experience or knowledge in working with both RDBMS (preferably MySQL) and NoSQL databases (preferably Cassandra)
- Experience in developing Agentic Solution
- Machine learning and data science background is great
- Solid understanding of software engineering concepts and methodologies
- Document process, designs, test results, and analysis
- Lead root cause analysis and track defect resolution to completion
- Review and provide feedback on development code, test designs and test cases
- Strong ability to collaborate
- Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented
- Good team player and excellent interpersonal skills
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity
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