Staff SW Engineer

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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.

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Job Description

Pismo is looking for a Staff Engineer to help establish and grow the Europe Localisation team. As Pismo expands globally, we are accelerating the delivery of market-specific capabilities while maintaining alignment with our core platform architecture and engineering standards. This role requires a strong focus on security, scalability, observability, reliability, and operational excellence, as the team is responsible for mission-critical services that support customers across multiple regions.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong architectural and leadership capabilities. They will drive the technical direction of the team, influence engineering decisions across organisational boundaries, mentor engineers, and help solve complex technical challenges. The successful candidate will play a key role in building resilient, scalable, and maintainable solutions while fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

The Staff Engineer will serve as a technical leader within the organisation, influencing architectural direction, driving engineering best practices, and helping teams deliver scalable and resilient solutions across multiple domains.

What you will do

• Take ownership of assigned development initiatives to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions that meet business requirements, align with architectural standards, and support long-term platform objectives

• Lead architectural discussions, design reviews, and technical decision-making to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with long-term platform objectives

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers through design reviews, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and technical coaching

• Communicate technical solutions, capabilities, trade-offs, considerations, and risks clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Collaborate with senior technical staff, Product Managers, and engineering teams to identify, document, track, and resolve technical risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges

• Drive improvements in observability, reliability, operational excellence, and engineering standards across owned services and the wider platform

• Identify technical risks, architectural concerns, and scalability challenges early, developing mitigation plans and driving issues through to resolution

• Work closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders to define and refine requirements, ensuring shared understanding and alignment between business objectives and technical implementation

• Partner with engineering teams across the organisation to identify opportunities for platform improvements, service reuse, and reduction of technical debt

• Champion modern software engineering practices including automation, testing strategies, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure management, and continuous improvement initiatives

• Collaborate with teams across regions and domains to ensure localisation solutions integrate effectively with the core platform while maintaining consistency, quality, and engineering standards

This is a hybrid position. For this role, you must be based within commutable distance from the Visa Warsaw office. Hybrid employees are expected to work from the office a minimum of three days a week – specifically, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. 

Qualifications

Language Skills:

• Proficiency in English at B2 level (Upper-Intermediate).

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field with 5+ years of relevant work experience.

• Advanced Degree (e.g., Master’s, MBA, JD, MD) with at least 2 years of relevant work experience.

• 0 years of work experience with a PhD

• Alternatively, 8+ years of relevant work experience without a formal degree.

Desired Qualifications

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Master's, MBA, JD, MD)

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline

• Strong software engineering experience building large-scale distributed systems and backend services

• Expert-level development experience with Golang

• Strong expertise in designing, developing, and operating RESTful APIs

• Deep understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems design patterns

• Strong understanding of distributed transactions, concurrency control, and race condition management

• Experience designing and implementing event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka, SNS, SQS, or EventBridge

• Deep knowledge of AWS services and cloud-native architecture patterns

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code practices and tools such as Terraform

• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration platforms

• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, alerting, performance analysis, and operational excellence practices

• Experience operating and supporting large-scale production systems, including incident response, root cause analysis, and service reliability initiatives

• Strong experience with automated testing strategies, including unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing

• Practical experience with relational and NoSQL database technologies, including MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, or similar platforms

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

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as Jenkins, CodeFresh, ArgoCD, Artifactory, Git, or similar technologies

• Strong understanding of Agile development methodologies, Test-Driven Development, and modern software delivery practices

• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and drive alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders without direct authority

• Experience leveraging modern software engineering practices, automation, and AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and software quality

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate complex technical challenges

• Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts in a clear and concise manner to technical and non-technical audiences

• Proven ability to mentor engineers and raise technical standards through leadership, collaboration, and knowledge sharing

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 welcome and encourages application from persons with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.