Tech Lead - Site Reliability Engineer in London

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. Pismo joined Visa in 2024, leveraging Visa’s solutions to address the technological challenges that large banks, marketplaces, and fintech companies face in migrating from legacy systems to more advanced technology. Pismo’s cloud-based platform empowers firms to build and launch financial products rapidly while maintaining high security and availability standards.

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 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 Opportunity: We are looking for versatile, curious, and energetic Site Reliability Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Pismo Site Reliability Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a global customer base.

The Work itself:

• Build platforms to support the engineering and delivery of code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability.
• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design and influence how Pismo succeeds.
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads.
• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, B2B, and business to government solutions.
• Contribute to developing the next generation of CICD processes and tooling.
• Improve the reliability of financial services systems to achieve 8 9s of availability.
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities.

Essential Functions:

• Works directly with product owners to gather and refine requirements across products, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions across the organization.
• Develops and designs advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable, considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem.
• Provides domain expertise on the development of cloud-based distributed systems.
• Plays a key role in the development and delivery of new features across products from end-to-end.

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, Golang, Python, Javascript).
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability.
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams.

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

Qualifications:

• Familiarity and experience with DevOps ways of working.
• Familiarity and experience building, managing, and operating platforms.
• Experience leading teams of technical professionals.

Additional Information: Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, 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.