Staff Software Engineer, Financial Accounting
Job Summary
The Financial Accounting team is responsible for generating and delivering all accounting entries produced by the Pismo platform to our clients through eventdriven architecture.
Every financial movement such as purchases withdrawals interest accruals fees and adjustments must be accurately translated into accounting entries based on each clients specific configuration and accounting rules.
The squads mission is to ensure that the platform is fully prepared for all financial events supports highly flexible and configurable accounting scripts and scales reliably as transaction volume and client complexity grow. This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of financial systems distributed architectures and highthroughput platforms.
What You Will Do:
- Design develop and maintain backend services primarily in Java (Go is a plus) following clean code principles and solid software engineering practices.
- Build and evolve scalable reliable and secure microservice architectures that support highvolume financial transactions.
- Collaborate closely with Product Engineering and QA to refine requirements and deliver solutions aligned with financial and business needs.
- Implement solutions integrated with eventdriven architectures ensuring data consistency and traceability for accounting use cases.
- Leverage AWS services such as SQS SNS DynamoDB S3 EventBridge and relational databases in daytoday development.
- Use Terraform to provision maintain and evolve AWS infrastructure.
- Write unit integration and endtoend tests to ensure correctness robustness and financial accuracy.
- Monitor application health using observability best practices (metrics logs alerts tracing).
- Participate in code reviews contributing to high quality maintainable and auditable code.
- Contribute to architectural discussions technical decisions and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support production systems with a strong sense of ownership reliability and operational excellence.
Why join us:
- Work on complex financial systems used by largescale clients.
- Solve challenging problems involving accounting rules scalability and consistency.
- Collaborate with experienced engineers in a highly technical and impactful domain.
This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties to 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 :
Qualifications
Basic Qualification:
- 5 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or
- 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA) or
- 8 years of relevant industry experience.
Language Skills:
- English proficiency at B2 level or above (UpperIntermediate).
Technical Skills:
- 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer.
- Strong experience with Java in backend applications.
- Experience with Go (Golang) is a plus.
- Experience building systems in the Financial Industry.
- Solid knowledge of Git and collaborative version control workflows.
- Strong testing culture: unit integration performance and endtoend tests.
- Experience designing and documenting APIs (Swagger/OpenAPI) flow diagrams and technical documentation.
- Experience with AWS and cloudnative architectures.
- Strong understanding of relational databases data modeling and strategies for consistency and performance.
- Knowledge IaC and CI/CD pipelines (Terraform Argo Jenkins Codefresh or equivalents).
- Ability to design evaluate and evolve distributed systems identifying and solving reliability and scalability issues.
- Comfortable working with businesscritical systems where correctness and resiliency are essential.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with critical highavailability financial systems.
- Familiarity with accounting concepts.
- Strong understanding of observability practices (monitoring logging tracing alerting).
- Experience with eventdriven and asynchronous architectures.
Additional Information :
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.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
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