Software Engineer (24, 25 Grads - 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

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
  
  

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.

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

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree, OR 6 months to 2 years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree, OR 6 months to 2 years of relevant work experience

proficiency in years of experience with 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, CodeFresh, 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).

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.