Sr. Consultant, Software Engineer

Pismo•Austin, TX

10h•Remote

About The Position

This role will be part of a team that is responsible for building and maintaining highly scalable, high-availability microservices within various financial domains. The team plays a critical role in enabling seamless product journeys by orchestrating calls across multiple squad microservices. We ensure continuous delivery of new features while maintaining zero-disruption deployments, safeguarding system stability and reliability in a mission-critical financial environment. You will be part of technical and product discussions in order to find the best scalable solution for the usecases. 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.

Requirements

8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.
At least 3 years of experience working with Go (Golang) in production - environments
At least 2 years of experience with AWS Cloud
Solid understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
Experience with REST APIs and modern backend development practices
Familiarity with version control (Git) and continuous integration workflows
Ability to debug and troubleshoot issues in complex systems
Strong focus on testing and software quality
Experience working in high-scale and high-availability environments
Experience with distributed transaction systems
Knowledge of messaging systems and event-driven architectures
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Docker/Containers.
Understanding of observability practices (monitoring, tracing, alerting).
Hands-on experience with Terraform or other IaC tools.

Nice To Haves

Be based in the US
9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership: Consistently leads their squad to successful technical outcomes, ensuring sound engineering decisions that balance technical debt, system design, reliability, observability, and business needs.
High-Impact Contributions: Regularly recognized for delivering high-quality, impactful technical solutions within their team and across collectives.
Coding Standards & Best Practices: Actively enables other engineers to elevate coding standards and deepen awareness of best practices, especially around non-functional requirements.
Product Awareness & Planning: Demonstrates strong product understanding, contributes meaningfully to quarterly planning, and collaborates with PMs or team leads to shape squad vision.
Mentorship & Feedback: Proactively supports the growth of other engineers through mentoring, sponsorship, and constructive feedback.
Cross-Team Collaboration: Frequently consulted by engineers from other squads, demonstrating the ability to tackle complex and ambiguous problems under pressure.
Technology Strategy: Keeps up with emerging technology trends and contributes insights to squad-level strategic discussions.