Staff Software Engineer

Visa · IN - Bengaluru, India

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:

  • 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, DynamoDB, S3, and EventBridge 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

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.


Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification:

4+ years with Golang or Java 

Solid knowledge of AWS Services ( Dynamo DB, SQS, SNS, S3, EC2 ,RDS )

Knowledge of Distributed transactions and Race Conditions

Experience/knowledge with Continuous Integration & Development and automation tools such as Jenkins, CodeFresh, ArgoCD, Artifactory, Git etc.

Solid knowledge and understanding of Agile and Test-Driven Development

4+ Years experience with unit testing and integration testing. 

Strong experience with Event driven architecture 

Strong relational database design and non-relational strategy, effective data modelling.

Experience with Financial Industry or Payments / Authorization Systems would be desirable

Understanding of observability practices (monitoring, tracing, alerting).

Preferred Qualifications:

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.

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.

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