Staff Software Engineer, Golang

• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine requirements for product components and incorporate feedback into designs and solutions
• Translate functional requirements into system designs and communicate component interactions
• Design and develop product components, refine code plans, and lead design reviews
• Contribute to project estimation and escalate issues that may cause delays
• Create, implement, and maintain extensible, reusable code
• Drive code quality through metrics and best practices
• Apply debugging tools to resolve moderately complex issues and identify automation opportunities
• Lead code reviews and provide feedback to team members
• Create complex test plans, identify test gaps, and address defects
• Use data analysis and monitoring standards to identify patterns and defects
• Respond to incidents during on-call rotations and assist with incident response and resolution
• Build, enhance, and identify developer tools
• Seek new knowledge, adapt to technical trends, improve product performance, and recommend resources to engineers

• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree, or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD), or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience
• Proven experience designing and executing large-scale portfolio migration strategies for mission-critical financial platforms
• Strong expertise in Golang and distributed systems processing high-volume workloads
• Experience building and operating data-intensive migration pipelines with a focus on performance, resiliency, and observability
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as S3, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, EventBridge, KMS, and Valkey
• Strong understanding of asynchronous processing patterns, event-driven architectures, and large-scale data movement
• Experience troubleshooting complex production incidents involving distributed systems and cross-service dependencies
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical design and execution of complex engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams
• Experience balancing migration velocity, operational risk, and customer impact in highly regulated financial environments
• Strong communication skills and ability to engage directly with clients, internal stakeholders, and engineering teams during migration planning and execution
• Experience with payment processing, card issuing, digital banking, or other mission-critical financial systems is highly desirable

• Opportunity to create impact at scale and see contributions impact lives around the world
• Work involving meaningful challenges and opportunities to grow skills
• Remote work arrangement
• Scheduled-notice access to a Visa office may be required