Senior Software Engineer

Founded by experienced entrepreneurs and engineers in 2016, Pismo is a technology company that provides a comprehensive processing platform for banking, card issuing and financial market infrastructure and helps customers innovate and build the next generation of banking and payment solutions. Pismo joined Visa in 2024.

Leveraging Visa's solutions, our core platform, and an expanding suite of capabilities, Pismo addresses the technological challenges that large banks, marketplaces, and fintech companies face in migrating from legacy systems to more advanced technology in the market. Pismo's cloud-based platform empowers firms to build and launch financial products rapidly, scaling as they grow to have a broader audience while keeping high security and availability standards.

Pismo's 500+ employees are located in more than 10 countries around the world.

Join a CrossFunctional Squad dedicated to building and maintain customized features and extensions on top of our core platform. You'll help deliver regionspecific and clientspecific solutions without impacting core services, enabling rapid global expansion.

What You'll Do:

• Design, implement, and maintain efficient, readable, testable, and well-documened backend code
• Take ownership of small-to-medium features or services from design to production
• Contribute to technical discussions, design reviews, and sprint planning
• Help assess trade-offs related to performance, reliability, and maintainability
• Actively participate in all stages of development: Planning, Design, Coding, Testing, Deployment
• Write and maintain unit tests and contribute to broader test coverage
• Help ensure correctness and reliability of core business logic
• Participate in code reviews, both giving and receiving feedback
• Continuously improve existing codebases through refactoring and best practices
• Help diagnose and resolve production issues using logs, metrics, and alerts
• Contribute to post-incident reviews and preventative improvements
• Begin mentoring junior engineers through code reviews and collaboration
• Develop deeper expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and reliability

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

• 2-5 years of relevant work experience with Golang or Java
• Exposure to API design and documentation (e.g., Swagger / OpenAPI)
• Experience working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Basic working knowledge of NoSQL or non-relational data stores
• Ability to model data effectively for business use cases
• Strong understanding of Agile development
• Hands-on experience with unit testing and exposure to integration or end-to-end testing
• Familiarity with Test-Driven Development (TDD) principles
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as: Jenkins, CodeFresh, ArgoCD, Artifactory
• Solid understanding of Git, pull requests, branching strategies, and code reviews
• Understanding of observability practices: Logging, Monitoring, Alerting (basic tracing exposure is a plus)
• Practical understanding of: Event-driven systems
• Exposure to API design and documentation (e.g., Swagger / OpenAPI)
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and modern deployment practices

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience working in the financial industry, payments, or authorization systems is desirable
• Prior experience participating in on-call rotations or incident response
  
  

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.