Staff Software Engineer

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

Pismo are looking for a Staff Engineer to help begin the Europe Localisation team. As Pismo expands globally, we are looking to expand the number of features in different markets outside of the core platform. This role demands a strong focus on security, scalability, observability, and reliability, as the team is responsible for mission-critical components.

The ideal candidate will combine excellent technical knowledge, architectural design, and the mentorship of more junior developers to guide the team through complex engineering challenges and deliver high-quality, resilient solutions while fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
What you will do

• Collaborate with project team members (Product Managers, Architects, Analysts, Developers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure development and implementation of new data driven business solutions

• Take ownership of assigned development tasks to ensure on-time delivery of high-quality solutions that meet requirements, align with the architectural vision, and adhere to all applicable standards. Responsibilities cover all phases of solution development

• Convey technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Communicate status, issues, and risks clearly and promptly

• Collaborate with senior technical staff and PM to identify, document, plan contingency, track and manage risks and issues until all are resolved

• Engagement in requirements definition and clarification in collaboration with Business to ensure completeness and common understanding of the business needs is important

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

• 6 or more years of work experience, Bachelors degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience

• Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required

• Strong design and coding skills with GoLang

• Solid knowledge and understanding of REST API's.

• Solid knowledge of AWS Services or other cloud providers

• Knowledge of the Microservices Design Patterns

• Knowledge of Distributed transactions and Race Conditions

• Knowledge of event driven technologies such as SQS, SNS, EventBridge or Kafka

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and Docker

• Solid knowledge with unit tests and integrity tests

• Familiarity with Redis, or NoSQL datastores is a plus.

• Practical experience with database technologies such as MySQL and NoSQL (DynamoDB or similar)

• Knowledge of Unix/Linux and working in a shell environment.

• Experience/knowledge with Continuous Integration & Development and automation tools such as Jenkins, CodeFresh, ArgoCD, Artifactory, Git etc.

• Solid knowledge and understanding of Agile and Test-Driven Development

• Strong analytical skills with excellent problem-solving ability.

• Ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way.

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.