Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant Level (7+, SDET)

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
This role will be part of a team that is responsible for building and maintaining highly scalable, high-availability microservices within various financial domains. The team plays a critical role in enabling seamless product journeys by orchestrating calls across multiple squad microservices. We ensure continuous delivery of new features while maintaining zero-disruption deployments, safeguarding system stability and reliability in a mission-critical financial environment. You will be part of technical and product discussions in order to find the best scalable solution for the usecases.
What You'll Do:
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.
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.
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.
Experience with AI driven development ecosystem, preferably one of Cluade, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, Amazon Kiro.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 11+ years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
At least 3 years of experience working with Go (Golang) in production - environments
At least 2 years of experience with AWS Cloud
Solid understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
Experience with REST APIs and modern backend development practices
Familiarity with version control (Git) and continuous integration workflows
Role specific Skills/Competencies:
Service, API & Distributed Systems Testing
Hands-on experience designing and implementing API, contract, integration, and service testing for distributed microservices, including service virtualization, mocking, test data management, and validation across multiple environments.
Performance, Reliability & Resilience Engineering
Experience designing and executing performance, load, chaos, and resilience testing to identify scalability limits, resource constraints, degradation patterns, and system failure modes.
Production Signal-Driven Quality Engineering
Ability to use production signals, including incidents, logs, alerts, defects, and customer-impact patterns, to identify systemic quality gaps, improve test coverage, and engineer safeguards that prevent recurring production failures.
Event-Driven & Asynchronous Systems Correctness
Experience validating failure modes and correctness in event-driven and asynchronous architectures.
Ability to debug and troubleshoot issues in complex systems
Strong focus on testing and software quality
Experience working in high-scale and high-availability environments
Experience with distributed transaction systems
Knowledge of messaging systems and event-driven architectures
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Docker/Containers.
Understanding of observability practices (monitoring, tracing, alerting).
Hands-on experience with Terraform or other IaC tools.
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.