Sr. Manager, Software Engineering (10 to 14 years exp)

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.

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.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Software 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.

The Work itself:

• Design 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 artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings
• 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.
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities

Essential Functions:

• Works with product owners to gather and refine requirements for one product, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions across departments.
• Develops and designs moderately advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable, considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem.
• Provides domain expertise on the development of user documentation of solutions and implements standard processes in user documentation.
• Plays a significant role in the development and delivery of new features within a product from end-to-end.
• As a Senior Manager in Software Engineering, you will provide technical leadership for one or more product offerings within Value Added Services team. This role extends beyond resource management, development, delivery and you will be required to participate in application architecture, feature design, end to end network topology, application scalability needs and be the owner for bringing up an application from whiteboard to life.

People:

• Grows team members and builds a high-performing team.
• Spends time recruiting and organizing activities that increase retention.
• Creates an environment of psychological safety, enabling team members to thrive.
• Represents the team in the wider engineering and tech organizations.

Technical:

• Drives the team to decide how to implement our product.
• Spends time driving technical discussions and decisions and writing code.
• Actively guide architecture, tool choices and internal technical quality and best practices.
• Actively raises and drives work to manage tech debt, scalability, performance and maintainability of our software.
• Ensures support and operations for services in production with aid of their team.
• Drives technical excellence.

Process:

• Continually tunes the team software process to deliver a sustainable and seamless flow of value.
• Managing productivity of the engineers in the team.
• Partnering with product managers in developing short term strategy and roadmap that align with business goals for the initiatives that you would be directly involved in.
• Partnering with remote teams to ensure alignment across product development.

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

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum of 10+ years of experience in application development / engineering using Java backend development with strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, JPA, Hibernate and relevant technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

At least 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager / Tech Lead directly managing a team of Individual Contributors, planning and supporting their career development.

Experience working with Agile process and principles.

Ability to communicate equally effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Modern Cloud-Native architectures and practices. To name some: high-availability, high-scalability, microservices, 12-factor apps, CI/CD, heavy testing automation and observability.

TDD, BDD and Contract testing.

Proven delivery of well-tested, scalable, fault-tolerant and performant solutions.

Having worked in a collaborative environment where you are comfortable reviewing code of your peers.

Strong experience in Microservice architecture, Containers Orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker etc.,)

Strong understanding of generative AI models and tools, such as GPT, Llama, and Anthropic etc., and using MCP (Model Context Protocol).

Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented.

The Skills You Bring:

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, C#, C++)

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

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.