SW Engineer - Backend​/DevOps

Company Description

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.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a talented, curious, and highly skilled Software Engineer who is passionate about building reliable, scalable, and secure systems.

In this role, you will be a senior individual contributor within a cross-functional agile team, responsible for designing, developing, and operating backend services that power Visa’s global platforms. You will contribute technical depth, support team execution, and help raise engineering standards through hands‑on delivery and mentorship.

• Design and develop backend systems that support high-volume, mission-critical platforms serving customers worldwide.
• Build scalable, resilient, and secure services aligned with Visa’s engineering standards.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to create technical designs and implement high-quality solutions.
• Actively contribute to product quality, reliability, and performance improvements.
• Develop extensible services, APIs, and shared components.
• Participate in architecture and design discussions within the product team.
• Leverage modern technologies to build next-generation payment, transaction, and real-time processing systems.
• Support production systems through monitoring, incident response, and continuous optimization.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and mentorship within the engineering team.

• Develop enhancements and modifications to existing backend systems using extensible and maintainable design patterns.
• Implement secure, performant, and scalable code that complies with internal standards and regulatory requirements.
• Build and maintain automation for testing, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and technical discussions.
• Engage in on-call rotations and incident response activities.
• Analyze system telemetry, logs, and metrics to identify improvement opportunities.
• Propose and implement targeted improvements in system performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Maintain technical documentation and contribute to operational runbooks.

• A growth mindset with enthusiasm for solving complex backend and systems problems.
• Experience delivering reliable services in large-scale production environments.

• Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Java, Python, C#, C++).
• Experience designing and building RESTful and event-driven APIs.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and fault tolerance.
• Experience working with relational and No
  
  SQL databases.
• Familiarity with messaging systems, caching, and asynchronous processing.

• Proven ability to build, deploy, and operate scalable backend platforms.
• Strong debugging, performance tuning, and troubleshooting skills.

• Continuous drive to learn and adopt modern backend and cloud technologies.

• Experience collaborating with Product, QA, Dev Ops, and Agile teams.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and effectively.

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

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of…