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. If you thrive on rapid growth and enjoy working alongside positive, driven teammates, you’ll feel right at home here. Help us to uplift everyone, everywhere. Whether you’re starting your career, pushing your capabilities or are a seasoned professional, learn how we can partner to reimagine the world. Introduce yourself to our recruiters and we'll get in touch if there's a role that seems like a good match. At Visa, we are driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. Our evolving technology keeps us at the heart of the digital economy, connecting people to 80+ million businesses worldwide. Backed by a resilient, proven model, our expanding network fuels growth—for Visa and for your career. Your journey starts here — discover how we hire Ready to take the next step? Learn more about life at Visa, explore our hiring process and get first-hand insights by hearing directly from our recruiters about what to expect. Apply with confidence today! Learn our recruiting process