Staff Software Engineer
Our Purpose is to... Uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
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
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Regulatory & Partner Reporting team. This role focuses on building and operating reliable, auditable, and deterministic backend systems that support regulatory reporting across multiple jurisdictions.
You will work closely with other Engineers, the Engineering Manager, and cross-functional partners in Compliance, Finance, and Data Engineering to implement high-quality systems that meet strict regulatory and operational requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Software Engineering:
Design and implement production-grade backend services using modern engineering practices
Write clean, testable, and maintainable code following team standards
Apply distributed systems principles including idempotency and safe retries, failure isolation and graceful degradation, schema and API versioning
Build systems with clear SLAs, SLOs, and observability
Maintain a strong security posture across services and data access
Data-Intensive & Reporting Systems
Work closely with data engineering teams on canonical data models, regime-specific reporting overlays
Design software that integrates cleanly with analytical platforms and reporting datasets
Backfills and historical restatements
Late-arriving data and reconciliation logic
Ensure traceability from source systems to reported outputs
Governance, Controls & Auditability
Support regulatory audits, investigations, and remediation efforts
Champion strong practices around access control, PII handling, and segregation of duties
Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and postmortems
Continuously improve system reliability and operational maturity
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Experience
Proven operation at Staff Engineer (or equivalent) level in complex environments
Experience building and owning mission-critical production systems
Background in regulated industries such as fintech, payments, banking, or financial services
Proven hands-on experience in AWS
Software Engineering Expertise
Strong backend engineering skills in one or more of Java, Python (or similar)
Strong system design skills across API-driven architectures, Data-intensive services, Batch and event-driven workflows
Deep understanding of reliability, observability, and operational excellence
Data & Analytics Awareness
Strong understanding of data modelling concepts such as canonical models and dimensional models
Experience working alongside modern data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
Ability to reason about Data lineage and traceability, Reconciliation and variance analysis, Backfills and historical corrections
Platform & Operations
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform
Strong operational mindset
On-call participation
Experience with Incident response
Experience with postmortems and continuous improvement
Nice To Haves
Prior experience building regulatory or statutory reporting platforms
Exposure to near-real-time or API-based regulatory submissions
Background in payments, settlement, treasury, or ledger systems
Hands-on experience with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar LLM-based engineering tools
Experience designing AI-assisted developer workflows that improve productivity without compromising correctness or compliance
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.