Staff SW Engineer, Lending

Visa Inc; Belfast; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to develop a global Lending platform. The role emphasizes Java, AWS, and event-driven architectures. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of experience in software development. This remote position offers opportunities for growth and innovation in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software development, majorly in Java.
• Mandatory AWS certification.
• Experience in testing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Java projects using AWS.
• Monitor applications through logs/metrics.
• Execute Terraform to manage AWS resources.

Skills

Java development

AWS

Event-driven architectures

Docker/Kubernetes

Testing (unit, integration, load)

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree / MBA

PhD

Tools

Terraform

Grafana

Postman

Job description

Overview

Staff SW Engineer, Lending — Full-time. Job Family Group: Technology and Operations.

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

Summary

The Lending team is responsible for developing a global Lending platform. Our goal is to have the best Lending platform in the global market, offering a range of functionalities adaptable to any market, while being user-friendly, robust, highly scalable, and resilient. Therefore, we work with best practices and strongly focus on quality to achieve these objectives.

What you\'ll do

• Development and maintenance of projects in Java using AWS services
• Participation in technical analysis with product team requirements
• Execution of Terraform to create/remove new resources on AWS
• Monitoring applications through logs/metrics using Grafana
• Database optimization, mainly DynamoDB
• Help in the collective decisions about our architecture
• Understand and build micro-service and event-driven architecture, and how to solve distributed transaction problems.

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor\'s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of development experience, with the majority of that time with Java
• Experience with AWS (certification is mandatory)
• Experience with Event-driven architectures
• Experience in designing architectural solutions
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience with testing (unit, integration, load)

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 5 years of development experience, with the majority of that time with Java
• Experience with AWS (certification is mandatory)
• Experience with Event-driven architectures
• Experience in designing architectural solutions
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience with testing (unit, integration, load)

Desirable Qualifications

• Terraform
• CI/CD
• Observability
• Postman
• Grafana
• OpenAPI/Swagger
• Microservices
• Previous experience in the financial market is a plus

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.