Senior Software Engineer, Antifraud

VISA; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the anti-fraud team, building scalable microservices in Go or Java on AWS, with Terraform tooling and robust tests. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver technical solutions aligned with business needs and contribute to architecture and design decisions.

This remote role is based in Brazil, offering opportunities to work from home while engaging with global colleagues, and involves code reviews, observability

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's or Associate’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Strong experience with Java/JVM based languages
• Experience with Financial Industry or Payments / Authorization Systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain applications using Golang or Java, following clean code and best software engineering practices.
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure microservices architecture.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to refine and deliver technical solutions aligned with business needs.
• Leverage AWS services such as SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, S3, and EventBridge in day-to-day development.
• Use Terraform to provision, maintain, and evolve AWS infrastructure.
• Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and system robustness.
• Monitor application health and performance using observability tools (metrics, logs, alerts).
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Contribute to architectural and technical discussions, supporting continuous improvement and innovation.

Skills

Java/JVM languages

Golang

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD (Jenkins)

SQL/NoSQL databases

Unit/integration testing

API documentation

Git/version control

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related

Tools

Swagger

Argo

Codefresh

Job 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 Description

Summary

The anti-fraud team works with two main systems, one of which is responsible for monitoring transactions and then communicating with third parties to verify whether the transactions are in order or if it is an attempted fraud, and another system that assists other modules in calculating fees and the like.

What You'll Do:

• Develop and maintain applications using Golang or Java, following clean code and best software engineering practices.
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure microservices architecture.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to refine and deliver technical solutions aligned with business needs.
• Leverage AWS services such as SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, S3, and EventBridge in day-to-day development.
• Use Terraform to provision, maintain, and evolve AWS infrastructure.
• Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and system robustness.
• Monitor application health and performance using observability tools (metrics, logs, alerts).
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Contribute to architectural and technical discussions, supporting continuous improvement and innovation.

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. #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:

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's or Associate’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Strong experience with Java/JVM based languages
• Experience with Financial Industry or Payments / Authorization Systems.

Technical Skills:

• Experience with Financial Industry or Payments / Authorization Systems.
• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer working in production environments.
• Skilled in Golang and adaptable to other languages like - Java/Groovy or JVM-related.
• Advanced Git user resolves team version control issues.
• Thorough code reviews focusing on cross-domain quality.
• Writes and validates unit, integration, performance, and end-to-end tests.
• Experienced with Swagger, flow diagrams, and API documentation, supports DEVEX and external publishing.
• Proficient with Terraform, Argo, Jenkins, Codefresh for infrastructure and deployment understand related integrations.
• Deep product knowledge, active in feature planning and impact analysis.
• Strong relational database design and non-relational strategy, effective data modeling.
• Proficient in AWS, applying optimal performance techniques.
• Designs scalable microservices and evaluates architectural options.
• Identifies and resolves distributed systems issues for improved reliability.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Work with critical systems is a differential
• Understanding of observability practices (monitoring, tracing, alerting).
• Experience using AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, GPT, Claude) to improve development efficiency and 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.