Software Engineer (1 year exp, 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

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

• Write clean, readable, and maintainable code under guidance from senior engineers
• Contribute to services built with Go and other backend technologies
• Take part in planning, design discussions, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Learn how features move from idea to production.
• Implement unit tests and contribute to integration tests.
• Help ensure correctness and reliability of business logic.
• Participate in code reviews, both giving and receiving feedback
• Learn best practices around coding standards, performance, and reliability
• Assist in debugging issues using logs, metrics, and alerts
• Learn incident response and root-cause analysis with guidance
• Continuously improve your understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and software design
• Adopt team best practices for Agile development and engineering excellence
  
  

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

1-3 years of relevant software development experience ( Java / Golang )

Experience working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL)

Experience working with REST APIs and API documentation tools (e.g., Swagger/OpenAPI)

Basic working knowledge of AWS or another major cloud provider

Basic understanding of NoSQL or non-relational data stores

Understanding of core concepts such as: Microservice architecture

Familiarity with Git and pull-request, based workflows

Experience writing unit tests

Basic understanding of Agile methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD) principles

Exposure to CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, CodeFresh, ArgoCD, or similar

Some experience supporting applications in production or staging environments

Awareness of observability concepts such as logging, monitoring, and alerting

Experience working with REST APIs and API documentation tools (e.g., Swagger/OpenAPI)

Familiarity with containers (Docker) and basic deployment concepts

Understanding of event messaging systems (Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, etc.)

Curiosity and initiative to learn system design, scalability, and reliability concepts

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.