Staff Software Engineer, Tokenization

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 Tokenization team is responsible for building and maintaining secure solutions that replace sensitive payment card data with unique tokens. This process ensures that actual card details are never exposed during transactions, reducing fraud risk and improving compliance with security standards such as PCI DSS.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and resilient systems focused on banking and payment services.
• Build and evolve orchestration layers integrating internal and external services.
• Develop RESTful APIs and reusable components in a microservices-based architecture.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver impactful solutions.
• Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and system reliability.
• Work with modern engineering best practices, prioritizing security, performance, and scalability.
• Perform Code Reviews.
• Contribute to the technical design and architecture decisions within the squad.
• Operate in a highly documented environment, with a focus on clear and transparent communication.
• Engage in mentoring, continuous learning, and technical improvement initiatives.

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

• 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.

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience working in high-scale and high-availability environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Docker/Containers.
• Knowledge of messaging systems and event-driven architectures.
• Understanding of observability practices (monitoring, tracing, alerting).
• Background in Agile methodologies and production support.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform or other IaC tools
  
  

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.