Company DescriptionFounded 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.
Job DescriptionThis role will be part of a team that is responsible for building and maintaining highly scalable, high-availability microservices within various financial domains. The team plays a critical role in enabling seamless product journeys by orchestrating calls across multiple squad microservices. We ensure continuous delivery of new features while maintaining zero-disruption deployments, safeguarding system stability and reliability in a mission-critical financial environment. You will be part of technical and product discussions in order to find the best scalable solution for the usecases.
What You'll Do:
- Technical Leadership: Consistently leads their squad to successful technical outcomes, ensuring sound engineering decisions that balance technical debt, system design, reliability, observability, and business needs.
- High-Impact Contributions: Regularly recognized for delivering high-quality, impactful technical solutions within their team and across collectives.
- Coding Standards & Best Practices: Actively enables other engineers to elevate coding standards and deepen awareness of best practices, especially around non-functional requirements.
- Product Awareness & Planning: Demonstrates strong product understanding, contributes meaningfully to quarterly planning, and collaborates with PMs or team leads to shape squad vision.
- Mentorship & Feedback: Proactively supports the growth of other engineers through mentoring, sponsorship, and constructive feedback.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Frequently consulted by engineers from other squads, demonstrating the ability to tackle complex and ambiguous problems under pressure.
- Technology Strategy: Keeps up with emerging technology trends and contributes insights to squad-level strategic discussions.
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.
QualificationsBasic Qualifications:
- 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Be based in the US
- 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
- At least 3 years of experience working with Go (Golang) in production - environments
- At least 2 years of experience with AWS Cloud
- Solid understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
- Experience with REST APIs and modern backend development practices
- Familiarity with version control (Git) and continuous integration workflows
- Ability to debug and troubleshoot issues in complex systems
- Strong focus on testing and software quality
- Experience working in high-scale and high-availability environments
- Experience with distributed transaction systems
- Knowledge of messaging systems and event-driven architectures
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Docker/Containers.
- Understanding of observability practices (monitoring, tracing, alerting).
- Hands-on experience with Terraform or other IaC tools.
Additional InformationWork 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 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.
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.
U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for this position is 152,200.00 to 243,700.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program. 
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