Lead SW Engineer

Visa · IN - Bengaluru, India

About Us
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.

Job 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.

This role will be part of a team that is responsible for building and maintaining highly scalable, high-availability microservices within various financial domains. The team plays a critical role in enabling seamless product journeys by orchestrating calls across multiple squad microservices. We ensure continuous delivery of new features while maintaining zero-disruption deployments, safeguarding system stability and reliability in a mission-critical financial environment. You will be part of technical and product discussions in order to find the best scalable solution for the usecases.

What You'll Do:

  • 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.

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

10+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD

7+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing managers and/or leading multi-team organizations delivering complex, production-grade systems.

Deep hands-on expertise in large-scale distributed systems design, including multi-region architectures, fault isolation, data consistency models, and performance optimization.

Proven track record operating high-availability, mission-critical services, with strong ownership of reliability, observability, incident management, and operational excellence (SLOs/SLAs).

Demonstrated innovation in technical systems and engineering processes, driving step-change improvements in scalability, developer productivity, quality, or cost efficiency.

Hands-on experience integrating AI into software development workflows and products, including automation, intelligent tooling, or AI-native system design.

Strategic thinker with strong execution rigor — able to translate long-term platform vision into clear roadmaps, measurable outcomes, and disciplined delivery.

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.

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