Senior Software Engineer, Financial Accounting
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- BR - Remote - Brazil
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Finance
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proficiency in English at B1 level or above (Intermediate).
- 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
Nice to have
- 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.
Full description
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 DescriptionSummary
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.