Senior Software Engineer

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

Join a Cross‑Functional Squad dedicated to building and maintain customized features and extensions on top of our core platform. You'll help deliver region‑specific and client‑specific solutions without impacting core services, enabling rapid global expansion.

What You'll Do

• Design, implement, and maintain efficient, readable, testable, and well-documened backend code
• Take ownership of small-to-medium features or services from design to production
• Contribute to technical discussions, design reviews, and sprint planning
• Help assess trade-offs related to performance, reliability, and maintainability
• Actively participate in all stages of development: Planning, Design, Coding, Testing, Deployment
• Write and maintain unit tests and contribute to broader test coverage
• Help ensure correctness and reliability of core business logic
• Participate in code reviews, both giving and receiving feedback
• Continuously improve existing codebases through refactoring and best practices
• Help diagnose and resolve production issues using logs, metrics, and alerts
• Contribute to post-incident reviews and preventative improvements
• Begin mentoring junior engineers through code reviews and collaboration
• Develop deeper expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and reliability
  
  

This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience 2-5 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 1 year of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience. 2+ years of hands-on experience with Golang, or Strong backend experience in Java, Groovy, or other JVM-based languages with the ability to work productively in Go Experience working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) Basic working knowledge of NoSQL or non-relational data stores Ability to model data effectively for business use cases Strong understanding of Agile development Hands-on experience with unit testing and exposure to integration or end-to-end testing Familiarity with Test-Driven Development (TDD) principles Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as: Jenkins, CodeFresh, ArgoCD, Artifactory Solid understanding of Git, pull requests, branching strategies, and code reviews Understanding of observability practices: Logging, Monitoring, Alerting (basic tracing exposure is a plus) Practical understanding of: Event-driven systems, Distributed transactions (eventual consistency, compensation), Race conditions and concurrency issues in distributed environments Experience working in the financial industry, payments, or authorization systems Exposure to API design and documentation (e.g., Swagger / OpenAPI) Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and modern deployment practices Prior experience participating in on-call rotations or incident response Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and systems quickly

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.