Staff SW Engineer, Migrations at Visa

Bengaluru, karnataka, India -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

20 Jan, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

22 Oct, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Golang, Java, Groovy, Git, Debugging, Code Review, Testing, Documentation, Architecture, Product Ownership, Infrastructure, Containerization, Database Design, Monitoring, Microservices, Cloud Services, Distributed Systems

Industry

IT Services and IT Consulting

Description

Company Description 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. Job Description Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms. The Migrations Squad leads Visa’s strategic client transitions, ensuring seamless platform upgrades with zero disruption. We partner cross-functionally to deliver high-scale migrations that meet strict SLAs, reduce operational overhead, and reinforce client trust through automation and reliability. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll help shape the future of Visa’s migration capabilities, driving impact across global markets. What you will do: Design systems that impact 40% of the world’s population while influencing Visa’s standards for scalability, security, and reusability Collaborate cross-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions Contribute to product quality, service technology, and new business flows in agile squads Develop scalable products for diverse customers, including merchants, B2B, and government solutions Leverage innovative technologies to build next-gen Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later solutions Make a global or local impact through mentorship and continuous learning Apply technical knowledge to understand requirements and improve interface design and functionality Use standard programming practices to implement website modifications and technical features Support piloting of new capabilities that enhance user experience across e-commerce products Analyze and debug simple issues using appropriate tools 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: 6+ 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 10+ years of relevant work experience. Programming Languages: Proficient in Golang, Java and/or Groovy with the ability to work in other languages. Version Control: Advanced Git usage, supporting team members in resolving issues. Debugging & Bug Resolution: Skilled in identifying and resolving bugs across team and adjacent scopes. Code Review: Expert in reviewing code for quality, identifying potential issues, and suggesting improvements that consider cross-domain impacts. Testing: Proficient in writing unit, integration, and manual tests. Capable of validating impacts on interconnected applications and performing end-to-end testing. Documentation: Experienced in using Swagger, creating flow diagrams, and documenting APIs. Supports DEVEX team in mapping and publishing documentation externally. Promotes documentation culture and produces architectural diagrams as needed. Architecture & Standards: Advises on best practices and solutions, aligning with Pismo’s validated standards and patterns. Product Ownership: Deep understanding of team products actively participates in feature discussions, prioritization, and impact analysis across teams. Infrastructure & Deployment: Skilled in resource creation using Terraform, application configuration, and deployment using Argo, Jenkins, and Codefresh. Understands integrations with Goalkeeper and infrastructure pipelines. Containerization & Orchestration: Proficient in Docker and Kubernetes, including local setup, debugging, and cluster configuration. Supports SRE teams in advanced operations. Database Design: Strong knowledge of relational databases and ability to define strategies for non-relational databases. Capable of modeling data domains and selecting appropriate persistence layers. Monitoring & Alerting: Designs monitoring strategies, sets up alerts, and ensures system observability to prevent issues. Microservices Architecture: Designs scalable microservices, evaluates architectural trade-offs, and ensures robustness under high request volumes. Cloud Services: Proficient in AWS services used at Pismo, applying best practices for performance and integration. Distributed Systems: Identifies and resolves distributed system issues, rethinking solutions to optimize performance and reliability. Preferred Qualifications: 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. Additional Information 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.

Responsibilities

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will design systems that impact a significant portion of the global population and collaborate cross-functionally to develop software solutions. You will also contribute to product quality and support the piloting of new capabilities to enhance user experience.