Fintech Jobs in Washington with H-1B1 Sponsorship
Washington state is one of the strongest markets for fintech H-1B1 sponsorship in the U.S., with major employers like Amazon, Microsoft, and a growing cluster of payments and financial technology firms concentrated in Seattle and Bellevue. Chilean and Singaporean nationals on the H-1B1 can find meaningful demand for software engineering, data, and compliance roles across the Puget Sound region.
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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.
Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.
Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.
Job Description
We are looking for dedicated, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of innovative payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.
The Work itself:
- Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability
- Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings
- Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads
- Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, B2B, and business to government solutions
- Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology
- Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities
Essential Functions:
- Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements
- Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance
- Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements
- Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products
- Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions
The Skills You Bring:
- Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
- Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, “hacking” beyond traditional solutions
- Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)
- Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
- Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
- Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams
We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.
Visa does not support immigration for this role.
Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- Master's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field. OR
- Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum two (2) years of experience in a directly related field. OR
- Minimum five (5) years of directly related experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of and ability to develop front-end code (e.g. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) in support of package and product development. This includes the extension of capabilities of packages and products
- The ability to select the "best available" values of some objective function to improve the functional effectiveness of web browsers
- Knowledge of user interface design, which is the interaction where users and computers interact. This includes an understanding of how to provide an optimal industrial design experience through User Interface (UI) Design
- Knowledge of and ability to develop back-end (e.g. Python, Java, C++, PHP) code in support of package and product development. This includes the extension of capabilities of packages and products
- The ability to develop and use Application Program Interfaces (APIs), a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications that specify how software components should interact and are used when programming graphical user interface (GUI) components. An API may be for a web-based system, operating system, database system, computer hardware, or software library
- Knowledge of and the ability to use database software (e.g., applications, web-based applications, information systems) to maintain, modify, and output data
- Knowledge of systems integration process in which separately produced components or subsystems are combined and problems in their interactions are addressed
- Knowledge of data structures, which consist of data organization, management, and storage formats that enable efficient access and modifications. This includes a collection of data values, the relationships among them, and the functions or operations that can be applied to the data
Additional Information
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
Company Description
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.
Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.
Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.
Job Description
We are looking for dedicated, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of innovative payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.
The Work itself:
- Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability
- Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings
- Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads
- Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, B2B, and business to government solutions
- Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology
- Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities
Essential Functions:
- Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements
- Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance
- Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements
- Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products
- Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions
The Skills You Bring:
- Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
- Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, “hacking” beyond traditional solutions
- Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)
- Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
- Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
- Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams
We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.
Visa does not support immigration for this role.
Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- Master's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field. OR
- Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum two (2) years of experience in a directly related field. OR
- Minimum five (5) years of directly related experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of and ability to develop front-end code (e.g. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) in support of package and product development. This includes the extension of capabilities of packages and products
- The ability to select the "best available" values of some objective function to improve the functional effectiveness of web browsers
- Knowledge of user interface design, which is the interaction where users and computers interact. This includes an understanding of how to provide an optimal industrial design experience through User Interface (UI) Design
- Knowledge of and ability to develop back-end (e.g. Python, Java, C++, PHP) code in support of package and product development. This includes the extension of capabilities of packages and products
- The ability to develop and use Application Program Interfaces (APIs), a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications that specify how software components should interact and are used when programming graphical user interface (GUI) components. An API may be for a web-based system, operating system, database system, computer hardware, or software library
- Knowledge of and the ability to use database software (e.g., applications, web-based applications, information systems) to maintain, modify, and output data
- Knowledge of systems integration process in which separately produced components or subsystems are combined and problems in their interactions are addressed
- Knowledge of data structures, which consist of data organization, management, and storage formats that enable efficient access and modifications. This includes a collection of data values, the relationships among them, and the functions or operations that can be applied to the data
Additional Information
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
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Which fintech companies in Washington sponsor H-1B1 visas?
Amazon and Microsoft both have fintech-adjacent divisions in Washington and have historically filed H-1B1 petitions. Beyond the large tech players, payments companies like Stripe and Remitly, along with regional banks that have built out digital banking units in Seattle and Bellevue, have sponsored H-1B1 workers. Sponsorship activity varies year to year, so reviewing recent Department of Labor LCA filings is the most reliable way to verify which employers are actively sponsoring.
Which cities in Washington have the most fintech H-1B1 sponsorship jobs?
Seattle and Bellevue account for the overwhelming majority of fintech H-1B1 sponsorship jobs in Washington. Seattle's South Lake Union and Capitol Hill neighborhoods host a dense concentration of fintech and payments employers, while Bellevue's Eastside corridor is home to several financial technology offices. Redmond and Kirkland also have relevant employers, largely tied to Microsoft's extended ecosystem and fintech startups that cluster near it.
What types of fintech roles typically qualify for H-1B1 sponsorship in Washington?
Roles that commonly qualify as specialty occupations in the fintech sector include software engineers building payments infrastructure, data scientists working on fraud detection or credit modeling, quantitative analysts, and compliance or risk engineers. The H-1B1 requires the position to normally require at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field, so general business or sales roles are less likely to qualify unless the job description ties the degree requirement to a specialized discipline.
How do I find fintech H-1B1 sponsorship jobs in Washington?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. You can filter by visa type, including H-1B1, and by industry to surface fintech roles in Washington from employers that have a history of sponsoring international workers. Rather than manually scanning general job boards, Migrate Mate surfaces roles where sponsorship is an established part of the hiring process, which is particularly useful for H-1B1 candidates from Chile and Singapore targeting Washington's fintech sector.
Are there any Washington-specific considerations for fintech H-1B1 sponsorship?
Washington has no state income tax, which affects how total compensation is structured at many fintech employers there, though it has no direct bearing on H-1B1 eligibility. Washington state does have specific money transmitter licensing rules that affect fintech employers, which can influence which roles they prioritize hiring for. For H-1B1 candidates, Washington's dense concentration of established tech employers means more companies have in-house immigration counsel experienced with the H-1B1 category specifically.
What is the prevailing wage for H-1B1 fintech jobs in Washington?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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