Sr. SW Engineer, Authorizations

About this role

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 Summary The Authorizations squad is responsible for processing and validating financial transactions in real time, ensuring that all operations comply with authorization rules defined by issuers and clients. The team operates within the critical payment authorization layer, dealing with complex business logic, high availability, and high‑performance requirements

Working with modern technologies and distributed architectures, the squad ensures that transactions are secure, fast, and reliable. What You'll Do Develop and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure backend services focused on banking and payment authorization systems, primarily using Golang, with strong exposure to JVM‑based technologies such as Java and Groovy, deployed on AWS. Own the delivery of clean, efficient, testable, and well‑documented code aligned with the squad’s technical strategy and business goals

Actively participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, including technical planning, system design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support for mission‑critical systems. Design, build, and evolve scalable microservices architectures and orchestration layers, integrating internal and external services while evaluating trade‑offs related to performance, reliability, and maintainability. Develop RESTful APIs and reusable components, ensuring high standards of security, scalabili

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