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.
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
Software Engineering Expertise:
Data & Analytics Awareness:
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.
