Senior Software Engineer, Financial Accounting
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Role Overview
The Financial Accounting Squad builds the core services that power accounting, financial reconciliation, ledger management, financial controls, and regulatory reporting across the Pismo platform. Operating at the heart of a mission-critical financial ecosystem, the team ensures financial accuracy, auditability, compliance, and scalability of accounting processes that support millions of financial transactions. The squad is responsible for transforming business events into accounting records, maintaining financial consistency across systems, and enabling reliable financial reporting and operational controls.
What You'll Do
Develop and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure backend services using Java and Go, deployed on AWS.
Deliver clean, efficient, testable, and well-documented code aligned with the squad's technical strategy and business objectives.
Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, including solution design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
Design and implement accounting and financial processing solutions that ensure accuracy, traceability, auditability, and compliance.
Build and evolve event-driven architectures responsible for generating accounting records, financial balances, reconciliations, settlements, and regulatory outputs.
Write and maintain automated tests that validate both technical behavior and financial correctness of accounting flows.
Provision and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform, following Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
Monitor critical financial workflows through logs, metrics, alerts, and distributed tracing, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback on code quality, architecture, reliability, and maintainability.
Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Accounting Specialists, Finance teams, and Engineering peers to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Contribute to the continuous evolution of the accounting platform, supporting new products, financial controls, and regulatory requirements.
Support incident response activities and contribute to operational excellence practices for business-critical services.
Take part in architectural discussions focused on scalability, resilience, performance, and long-term platform evolution.
Stay up to date with industry trends, regulatory changes, accounting concepts, and modern software engineering practices.
Deliver high-impact solutions that improve financial accuracy, operational efficiency, and platform reliability.
This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties to be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote employees may be required to be present at a Visa office with reasonable advance notice. #LI-Remote
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Summary
The Financial Accounting Squad builds the core services that power accounting, financial reconciliation, ledger management, financial controls, and regulatory reporting across the Pismo platform. Operating at the heart of a mission-critical financial ecosystem, the team ensures financial accuracy, auditability, compliance, and scalability of accounting processes that support millions of financial transactions. The squad is responsible for transforming business events into accounting records, maintaining financial consistency across systems, and enabling reliable financial reporting and operational controls.
What You'll Do
Develop and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure backend services using Java and Go, deployed on AWS.
Deliver clean, efficient, testable, and well-documented code aligned with the squad's technical strategy and business objectives.
Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, including solution design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
Design and implement accounting and financial processing solutions that ensure accuracy, traceability, auditability, and compliance.
Build and evolve event-driven architectures responsible for generating accounting records, financial balances, reconciliations, settlements, and regulatory outputs.
Write and maintain automated tests that validate both technical behavior and financial correctness of accounting flows.
Provision and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform, following Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
Monitor critical financial workflows through logs, metrics, alerts, and distributed tracing, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback on code quality, architecture, reliability, and maintainability.
Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Accounting Specialists, Finance teams, and Engineering peers to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Contribute to the continuous evolution of the accounting platform, supporting new products, financial controls, and regulatory requirements.
Support incident response activities and contribute to operational excellence practices for business-critical services.
Take part in architectural discussions focused on scalability, resilience, performance, and long-term platform evolution.
Stay up to date with industry trends, regulatory changes, accounting concepts, and modern software engineering practices.
Deliver high-impact solutions that improve financial accuracy, operational efficiency, and platform reliability.
This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties to be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote employees may be required to be present at a Visa office with reasonable advance notice. #LI-Remote
Qualifications
- For this role, you must be based in Brazil
- Language Skills
- Proficiency in English at B1 level or above (Intermediate).
- Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's or Associate’s Degree OR 5+ years of relevant work experience.
- Java and/or Go
- AWS services such as SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge, and other cloud-native technologies
Technical Skills
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer developing and operating backend services in production environments.
- Proficiency in Java and/or Go.
- Advanced Git skills, including handling complex collaboration and version-control scenarios.
- Solid experience designing, building, and operating microservices architectures in cloud environments.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in distributed systems.
- Strong testing expertise, including unit, integration, performance, and end-to-end testing.
- Experience designing and documenting APIs using OpenAPI/Swagger and other technical documentation tools.
- Proficiency with AWS services such as SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge, and other cloud-native technologies.
- Experience building event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing solutions.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment pipelines using tools such as Terraform, ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Codefresh, or similar.
- Advanced experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases, data modeling, and transactional consistency.
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts, including resiliency patterns, fault tolerance, and eventual consistency.
- Familiarity with financial processing patterns such as ledger systems, reconciliation workflows, accounting events, financial balances, and auditability.
- Experience with observability practices, including monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and production diagnostics.
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps principles.
- Ability to contribute to technical decisions involving scalability, reliability, financial integrity, and regulatory requirements.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building or operating mission-critical financial systems.
- Experience in Banking, Fintech, Payments, Issuing, Acquiring, Financial Services, or Core Banking platforms.
- Familiarity with accounting concepts such as double-entry bookkeeping, general ledger, reconciliation, financial controls, accounting events, and audit requirements.
- Experience supporting regulatory, compliance, or financial reporting initiatives.
- Familiarity with observability platforms and practices for large-scale distributed systems.
- AWS certifications.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to improve software development productivity and code quality.
- 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.
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