Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

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:

• Demonstrates basic knowledge and asks questions about project requirements.
• Reviews and asks questions about solution strategies that improve the design and functionality of a payment product feature.
• Applies standard processes on the use of front-end programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements, under close guidance.
• Works under close guidance from others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
• Identifies and advances bugs that threaten website functionality

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

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD in Computer Science or related discipline
• Have had hands-on engineering experience architecting high performant platforms
• 4 or more years’ experience leading engineering teams on product development
• 4 or more years of people management experience
• Experience working on consumer facing product development collaborating with multiple teams that have different development models, release cycles, and developer needs.
• Experience developing highly available and scalable, REST based webservices.
• Experience in roadmap planning and execution to roadmap and KPIs, and measuring performance of development teams. While you'll have the skill to understand the big picture, you're able to stay focused on the task at hand to achieve immediate goals
• Technically savvy and have deep understanding about system architecture and design best practices from building client facing high performant systems with high SLAs
• Experience with translating business requirements into technical designs.
• Be flexible to adapt to changing directions and priorities. Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity.
• Experience leading full stack development, using some of these technologies- Java, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, React JS, JavaScript, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, Maven, and Design Patterns, Test Automation framework
• Be passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and timeliness of one’s own deliverables and team deliverables
• Have great work ethics, and be a team player striving to bring the best results as a team
• Experience leading development with engineers and teams in multiple geographical locations and time zones
• Experience leading, coaching, and growing engineering teams. Be empathetic to understand engineers
• Experience conducting technical interviews and hiring top engineering talent
• Past experience leading AWS based hybrid solutions is preferred
• Experience in unit testing frameworks, functional testing processes, test management and automated testing tools
• Experience in docker and Kubernetes based deployments and platforms
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools is preferred
• Be data driven, understand the need for and apply analytics
• Self-motivated with strong drive for excellence
• Strong leadership qualities and organizational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills. In particular, a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally.

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.