Sr. SW Engineer - Interest Engine

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.

The Work itself:  

• Consistency, scalability, and cost requirements., such as  best practices observing
• Design and develop functionalities on the platform, 
• Feature evolution/System maintenance in a hybrid architecture (Java Microservices + Transactional processing in BigData Tools - Databricks/Airflow)
• Support the team and remove technical impediments  
• Coordinate technical refinement based on business specifications.  
• Communicate with stakeholders during the development of a product to keep them updated.  
• Develop technical tasks, prioritize and manage the backlog.  
• Use available AI Tools to improve teams processes 
• Conduct stress/performance tests 

Essential Functions: 

• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements. 
• Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance. 
• Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. Java, Python) to write code that fulfills technical requirements.  
• Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the performance and functionality experience for consumers.
• Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions. 

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

• English min level (C1)
• 4+ years of experience in product development related role within the technology or financial services sector
• Ability to design architecture with attention to resilience, cost, and performance
• Proficiency in systems development using Java or Python
• Knowledge of big data tools such as (Databricks, Airflow, Spark)
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability articulate priorities
• Demonstrated experience managing product backlogs and supporting product roadmaps
• Ability to work independently in a remote, multicultural team environment
• Solve complex problems of concurrency, multi-threading, and increased latency
• Proficiency in microservices architecture
• Proficiency in cloud development (AWS preferred)
• Ability to troubleshoot and handle observability tools (Grafana preferred)
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code
• Availability to be part of the team's on-call schedule

The Skills You Bring: 

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale 
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions 
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, Python) 
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability 
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc. 
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams 

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.