Sr. SW Engineer

We are looking for Versatile, 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 powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visas 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

• 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.

• Develop and maintain applications using Golang or Java, following clean code and best software engineering practices.
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure microservices architecture.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to refine and deliver technical solutions aligned with business needs.
• Leverage AWS services such as SQS, SNS, Dynamo
  
  DB, S3, and Event Bridge in day-to-day development.
• Use Terraform to provision, maintain, and evolve AWS infrastructure.
• Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and system robustness.
• Monitor application health and performance using observability tools (metrics, logs, alerts).
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Contribute to architectural and technical discussions, supporting continuous improvement and innovation

• 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
• 3+ years proficiency in Golang; adaptable to other languages like Java/Groovy or JVM-related
• Solid knowledge of AWS Services or other Cloud Players; knowledge of Distributed transactions and Race Conditions; experience/knowledge with Continuous Integration & Development and automation tools such as Jenkins, Code Fresh, ArgoCD, Artifactory, Git etc
• Solid knowledge and understanding of Agile and Test-Driven Development; deep product knowledge, active in feature planning and impact analysis
• Strong relational database design and non-relational strategy, effective data modelling
• Experience with Financial Industry or Payments / Authorization Systems
• Understanding of observability practices (monitoring, tracing, alerting)
• High-Impact Contributions:
  Regularly recognized for delivering high-quality, impactful technical solutions within their team and across collectives
• Coding Standards & Best Practices:
  Actively enables other engineers to elevate coding standards and deepen awareness of best practices, especially around non-functional requirements
• Technical Leadership:
  Consistently leads their squad to successful technical outcomes, ensuring sound engineering decisions that balance technical debt, system design, reliability, observability, and business needs
• Product Awareness & Planning:
  Demonstrates strong product understanding, contributes meaningfully to quarterly planning, and collaborates with PMs or team leads to shape squad vision
• Mentorship & Feedback:
  Proactively supports the growth of other engineers through mentoring, sponsorship, and constructive feedback
• Cross-Team
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Frequently consulted by engineers from other squads, demonstrating the ability to tackle complex and ambiguous problems under pressure
• Technology Strategy:
  Keeps up with emerging technology trends and contributes insights to squad-level strategic discussions