Staff SW Engineer-1

About Us

Increase your chances of an interview by reading the following overview of this role before making an application.
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 an experienced Staff Software Engineer to play a critical technical leadership role within our Regulatory Reporting team. This roleis responsible fordesigning, building, andoperatinghighly reliable, auditable, and deterministic systems that support regulatory reporting across multiplejurisdictions.

As a Staff Engineer, you will be a hands-on technical leader, shaping architecture and standards across backend services and data-intensive workflows, while partnering closely with the Engineering Manager, Compliance, and Data Engineering teams to ensure regulatory obligations are met with precision and confidence.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Ownership & Architecture:

• Act as a technical authority for the regulatory reporting platform
• Lead the design of backend services and data-intensive systems supportingregulatory submissions,report generation and validation,evidence, traceability, and audit workflows
• Drive architectural decisions that balance correctness, scalability, and operational reliability
• Ensure systems are deterministic, reproducible, and versioned to support audits and restatements

Software Engineering:

• Design and implement production-grade backend services using modern engineering practices
• Apply distributed systems principles includingidempotency and safe retries,failure isolation and graceful degradation,schemaand 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 oncanonical 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
• Full lineage from source systems to reported figures

Governance, Controls & Auditability:

• Support regulatory audits, investigations, and remediation efforts
• Champion strong practices around access control, PII handling, and segregation of duties

Technical Leadership & Mentorship:

• Lead andparticipatein architecture and design reviews
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers,raise the technical bar across the team
• Influence engineering standards without direct line management
• Partner closely with the Engineering Manager on technical strategy and execution

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager. xwzovoh

Qualifications

Degree or equivalent
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
Provenhands-onexperience in AWS
Software Engineering Expertise:
Expert-level backend engineering skills in one or more ofJava, Python (or similar)
Strong systemdesign skills acrossAPI-driven architectures,Data-intensive services,Batchand event-driven workflows
Deep understanding of reliability, observability, and operational excellence
Data & Analytics Awareness:
Strong understanding of datamodellingconceptssuch ascanonicalmodelsand dimensional models
Experience working alongside modern data platforms (e.g. Snowflake,BigQuery, Redshift)
Ability to reason aboutData lineage and traceability,Reconciliationand variance analysis,Backfills and historical corrections
Platform & Operations:
Experience with CI/CD pipelines andInfrastructure asCode(IaC) such as Terraform
Strong operational mindset
On-call participation
Experience withIncident 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.