Staff SW Engineer (6+, Golang)

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

Overview:

Software Development Engineers are expert problem-solvers and builders who design, implement, and improve software applications and systems. In this role, engineers spend approximately 60–75% of their time coding, working hands-on with code, data, and modern tools (including AI-assisted development, cloud services, and automation frameworks) to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality technology solutions that drive business outcomes in the fintech sector. They collaborate with cross-functional teams – product managers, designers, data scientists, QA, operations, and compliance – to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions, all while adhering to best practices, security standards, and regulatory requirements.

All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine requirements for product components and incorporate feedback into future designs or solutions.
• Translate functional requirements into system designs and communicate component interactions, ensuring alignment with business needs and timelines.
• Design and develop product components, refine code plans, and lead design reviews to ensure completeness and adherence to requirements.
• Contribute to project estimation, considering delivery costs and escalating issues that may cause delays.
• Lead by example in creating, implementing, and maintaining extensible, reusable code, and drive code quality through metrics and best practices.
• Apply debugging tools to resolve moderately complex issues and identify opportunities for automation across products.
• Lead code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards and providing feedback to team members.
• Create complex test plans, identify test gaps, and proactively address defects to minimize customer impact.
• Leverage data analysis and monitoring standards to identify patterns and defects in all environments.
• Respond to incidents during on-call rotations, troubleshoot complex issues, and assist in incident response and resolution.
• Build, enhance, and identify new developer tools to support programs and applications.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to trends and technical solutions to improve product performance and recommend resources to other engineers.

Qualifications

• 8+ 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.
• Proven experience designing and executing large-scale portfolio migration strategies for mission-critical financial platforms.
• Strong expertise in Golang and distributed systems processing high-volume workloads.
• Experience building and operating data-intensive migration pipelines with a focus on performance, resiliency, and observability.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as S3, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, EventBridge, KMS, and Valkey.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous processing patterns, event-driven architectures, and large-scale data movement.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production incidents involving distributed systems and cross-service dependencies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical design and execution of complex engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams.
• Experience balancing migration velocity, operational risk, and customer impact in highly regulated financial environments.
• Strong communication skills and ability to engage directly with clients, internal stakeholders, and engineering teams during migration planning and execution.
• Experience with payment processing, card issuing, digital banking, or other mission-critical financial systems is highly desirable.

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.