Site Reliability Engineer Sr Consultant

Visa; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in the UK is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join their Pismo team. This role involves solving complex challenges on a global scale by designing and building scalable payment technology. Successful candidates should have expertise in development languages, experience in deploying modern services, and a drive for innovation. You will work collaboratively with various teams while contributing to the reliability of financial systems impacting millions globally. Competitive benefits package offered.

Qualifications

• A growth mindset curious about technologies.
• Comfortable challenging the status quo.
• Experience leading teams of technical professionals.

Responsibilities

• Gather and refine requirements with product owners.
• Design scalable architecture solutions.
• Contribute to product quality improvements.
• Mentor team members and improve system reliability.

Skills

Expertise in one or more general development languages

Experience with modern services and web applications

Comfort in pushing boundaries and innovating

Collaboration with cross-functional teams

Drive to learn new technologies

Tools

Java

Golang

Python

JavaScript

Angular

React

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Company Overview

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. 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. 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 get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms. Pismo is a born‑in‑the‑cloud financial services company operating as part of Visa. We build and deliver cloud‑based, scalable, payment and banking services for large and small banks all over the world.

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 truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with product owners to gather and refine requirements across products, incorporating existing tools and solutions across the organization.
• Develop and design advanced architecture solutions that are robust and scalable, considering integration with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem.
• Provide domain expertise on the development of cloud‑based distributed systems.
• Play a key role in the development and delivery of new features across products from end‑to‑end.
• 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.
• Provide mentorship and continued learning opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale.

Qualifications

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

Benefits

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