Sr. SW Engineer (Golden Gate, Replication)
Visa is hiring a Sr. SW Engineer (Golden Gate, Replication) in Denver, United States. It pays $112k-$173k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Visa.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this role is Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include ChatGPT, Copilot and Oracle Goldengate.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 833 other open roles at Visa.
- The role was posted within the past week.
AI in this role
Design and configure data replication schemas while utilizing AI-assisted development tools for daily coding and troubleshooting tasks.
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.
Visa will accept applications for this role until at least 11-30-2026Job Description
Job Summary
Software Development Engineers are expert problem-solvers and builders who design, implement, and improve software applications and systems. In this role, engineers spend approximately 60–75% of their time coding, working hands-on with code, data, and modern tools (including AI-assisted development, cloud services, and automation frameworks) to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality technology solutions that drive business outcomes in the fintech sector. They collaborate with cross-functional teams – product managers, designers, data scientists, QA, operations, and compliance – to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions, all while adhering to best practices, security standards, and regulatory requirements.
All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build/configure data replication schemas between HP NonStop mainframes and multiple open system (MS SQL Server, Oracle) database instances.- Lead planning, analysis, design, implementation, maintenance, and control of the organization's data replication between unlike and like database products, using both unidirectional and bidirectional replication leveraging multiple features within the Oracle Golden Gate product suite.
- Configure, administer, and troubleshoot Oracle GoldenGate Extract, Replicat, Trails, Manager, and Microservices components.
- Hands on experience on OGG23 MicroService in Open System environment Like Windows/Linux.
- Support HP NonStop Guardian and OSS environments, including application troubleshooting and performance tuning.
- Support NonStop file system with basic knowledge of NonStop tool like FUP, PERUSE, SQLCOMP, ENFORM, ENSCRIBE.
- Lead planning, analysis, design, implementation, maintenance, and control of the organization's data replication between unlike and like database products, using both unidirectional and bidirectional replication leveraging multiple features within the Oracle Golden Gate product suite.
- Assist with improvements to systems and tools and support development and implementation of new automation, asking questions as necessary.
- Engage with team members and manager during code/design reviews, participate in on-call rotations and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles.
- Leverage working knowledge of systems/platforms and telemetry analyses to identify basic issues in code, processes, and designs when they are inconsistent with customer/business objectives.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and support guides.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise security, audit, and operational standards.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to interpret requirements for project components and incorporate feedback into future designs or solution fixes.
- Translate business requirements by verifying assumptions and escalating potential design issues to appropriate stakeholders.
- Participate in system design and architecture, refining code plans and contributing to design documentation.
- Contribute to project estimation and escalate issues that may cause delays.
- Develop, implement, and maintain code for products, services, or components, applying coding patterns, guidelines, and best practices.
- Apply debugging tools to verify assumptions and proactively flag issues before they occur.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed and address routine pull requests.
- Create test plans and configure testing procedures to identify and resolve defects for multiple features.
- Respond to support requests during on-call rotations, troubleshooting issues and deploying fixes under guidance.
- Leverage and build knowledge of software developer tools to create, debug, and maintain code for components.
- Remain current in skills by investing time in training resources to improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience
Preferred Qualifications
- 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
- Experience in technologies/software systems or a directly related field (minimum two years).
- Experience in developing and/or implementing web-based or mobile applications (minimum two years).
- Experience in system design and architecture for product components.
- Experience in debugging and troubleshooting software issues.
- Experience in code review and applying coding standards.
- Experience in test planning and execution for software features.
- Experience in responding to support requests and deploying fixes.
- Experience in using software developer tools for code creation and maintenance.
- Solid understanding of Oracle GoldenGate fundamentals including knowledge in database replication technologies and strong architectural/engineering skills to design systems that meet various applications High Availability and Disaster Recovery requirements.
- Knowledge of and ability to develop back-end (C, TAL) code in the HP NonStop environment.
- Knowledge of and the ability to use database software (e.g. MS SQL and Enscribe on the HP NonStop ) to maintain, modify, and output data.
- Knowledge of systems integration process in which separately produced components or subsystems are combined and problems in their interactions are addressed.
- Knowledge of data structures, which consist of data organization, management, and storage formats that enable efficient access and modifications. This includes a collection of data values, the relationships among them, and the functions or operations that can be applied to the data.
- Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum & Waterfall teams
- Experience with technologies such as Jenkins and Bit Bucket
Information for US Applicants
Work Hours
Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements
This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements
This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
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 protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.How we rate this
Sr. SW Engineer (Golden Gate, Replication) at Visa rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- Tell me about a project where database replication was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where software development was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where mainframe was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where performance tuning was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where troubleshooting was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Database Replication, Software Development, Mainframe, Performance Tuning, and Troubleshooting. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Put the AI tool in a bullet point about what you did, not just in a skills list. This role treats it as a required part of the job.
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