Staff Software Engineer, Accounts

Job Description

The Accounts squad is responsible for managing core personal and business account data across the platform, including general information, addresses, emails, identification documents, and phone numbers. The team also plays a critical role in improving customer experience by enabling account creation flows and migrating existing accounts, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and scalability across services.
Operating in a distributed, cloud-native environment, the squad builds reliable and secure systems that support high-volume account operations and global growth.

What You Will Do:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Go (Golang) and cloud-native architectures on AWS.
• Build and evolve APIs and systems that manage account lifecycle operations, including account creation, updates, and migrations.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, QA, and DevOps teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Contribute to system design decisions considering scalability, security, reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve issues in distributed systems, applying debugging tools to validate assumptions and root causes.
• Write and maintain high-quality code, including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, following TDD and Agile best practices.
• Participate in code reviews, promoting cross-domain quality, clean design, and shared ownership across the squad.
• Support the continuous improvement of developer experience (DEVEX), documentation, and API contracts (REST/Swagger).
• Leverage event-driven architectures and messaging solutions to build resilient and asynchronous workflows.
• Actively contribute to squad-level discussions, sharing insights on emerging technologies, architecture patterns, and engineering standards.
• Be regularly recognized for delivering reliable, scalable, and high-impact technical solutions.

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. #LI-Remote

Qualifications

For this role, you must be based in Brazil

Language Skills:

• Proficiency in English at B2 level or above (Upper-Intermediate)

Technical Skills:

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience in software development.
• Strong experience designing and developing backend services using Go (Golang) or other general-purpose languages (Java, C#, C++).
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, API versioning, and contract-first design.
• Experience working with AWS or other major cloud providers, applying best practices for performance and reliability.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture patterns, including distributed transactions and race condition handling.
• Familiarity with event-driven systems using tools such as SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Kafka, Redis, or NoSQL datastores.
• Practical experience with relational and non-relational databases, such as MySQL, DynamoDB, and MongoDB.
• Proficient with Docker and Kubernetes, including containerized application deployment and orchestration.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as Jenkins, Codefresh, ArgoCD, Artifactory, and Git.
• Strong understanding of unit testing, integration testing, and system integrity testing.
• Solid knowledge of Unix/Linux environments and command-line tools.
• Familiarity with Agile and Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working on high-scale, customer-facing platforms or critical systems.
• Exposure to distributed systems handling large volumes of data and traffic.
• Knowledge of observability practices, including monitoring, tracing, and alerting.
• Experience contributing to architectural discussions and influencing engineering standards across teams.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Additional Information

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.