Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant Level (7+, SDET)

Visa is hiring a Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant Level (7+, SDET) in IN - Bengaluru.

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.
• Experience with AI driven development ecosystem, preferably one of Cluade, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, Amazon Kiro.


Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

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 11+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred qualifications

• 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

Role specific Skills/Competencies:

• Service, API & Distributed Systems Testing

Hands-on experience designing and implementing API, contract, integration, and service testing for distributed microservices, including service virtualization, mocking, test data management, and validation across multiple environments.

• Performance, Reliability & Resilience Engineering

Experience designing and executing performance, load, chaos, and resilience testing to identify scalability limits, resource constraints, degradation patterns, and system failure modes.

• Production Signal-Driven Quality Engineering

Ability to use production signals, including incidents, logs, alerts, defects, and customer-impact patterns, to identify systemic quality gaps, improve test coverage, and engineer safeguards that prevent recurring production failures.

• Event-Driven & Asynchronous Systems Correctness

Experience validating failure modes and correctness in event-driven and asynchronous architectures.

• Ability to debug and troubleshoot issues in complex systems
• Strong focus on testing and software quality

About Visa

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 – t