Staff Software Engineer, Authorizations

Posted 17 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in São Paulo, BRA
In-Office or Remote
Senior level
Fintech • Information Technology • Payments
Join a world leader in payments and technology!
The Role
The Staff Software Engineer will develop and maintain projects in Java/Groovy, deploy on AWS, mentor other engineers, and ensure the technical quality of the team’s outcomes, focusing on high availability of financial transactions.
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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

The Authorizations squad is responsible for processing and validating financial transactions in real time, ensuring that all operations comply with the authorization rules defined by issuers and clients. It operates directly within the critical payment authorization layer, dealing with complex business logic, high availability, and performance. The team works with modern technologies and distributed architecture to ensure transactions are secure, fast, and reliable.

What You Will Do:

  • Development and maintenance of projects in Java / Groovy with deployment on AWS.  
  • Proactively contributes to the betterment of other engineers in the company, through sponsoring, mentoring, and providing constructive feedback.  
  • Consistently leads the squad to good outcomes from a technical perspective, ensuring appropriate engineering decisions are made to factor in technical debt, systems design, stability/reliability, monitoring/observability, and business needs.  
  • Execution of Terraform to create/remove new resources on AWS.  
  • Monitoring applications through logs/metrics 
  • Participation in technical analysis with product team requirements. 
  • Keeps up with emerging technology trends and contributes insights to squad-level strategic discussions. 
  • Regularly recognized for delivering high-quality, impactful technical solutions within their team and across collectives. 

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. #LI-Remote

Qualifications

  • For this role, you must be based in Brazil

Language Skills:

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

Technical Skills:

  • Experience with Financial Industry or Payments / Authorization Systems.
  • 5+ years of experience as a Software Developer
  • Skilled in Java/Groovy or JVM-related and adaptable to other languages like - Golang
  • Advanced Git user resolves team version control issues.
  • Expert in debugging across projects.
  • Thorough code reviews focusing on cross-domain quality.
  • Writes and validates unit, integration, performance, and end-to-end tests.
  • Experienced with Swagger, flow diagrams, and API documentation, supports DEVEX and external publishing.
  • Advise architecture, standards, and best practices.
  • Deep product knowledge, active in feature planning and impact analysis.
  • Proficient in Terraform, Argo, Jenkins, Codefresh for infrastructure and deployment understand related integrations.
  • Advanced Docker/Kubernetes usage.
  • Strong relational database design and non-relational strategy, effective data modeling
  • Designs scalable microservices and evaluates architectural options
  • Proficient in AWS, applying optimal performance techniques
  • Identifies and resolves distributed systems issues for improved reliability.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Work with critical systems is a differential
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Knowledge about GitOps
  • Understanding of observability practices (monitoring, tracing, alerting).

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.

Top Skills

AWS
Codefresh
Docker
Git
Groovy
Java
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Swagger
Terraform
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
33,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1958

What We Do

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 For more information, visit visa.com/about, @LifeatVisa Instagram, and @VisaNews on X.

Why Work With Us

At Visa, every voice powers progress. We believe inclusion fuels innovation — and that unique perspectives create better outcomes for our teams, our business, and the world we serve. With more than 13K members across our Employee Resource Groups, you’ll find community, allyship, and opportunities to lead, learn and make an impact beyond your desk.

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