Sr. Manager, SW Engineering

Visas Technology Organization as the worlds leader in digital payments technology Visas mission is to connect the world through the most creative reliable and secure payment platform - enabling individuals businesses and economies to thrive.

Cross-border remittances and new business models (e.g. gig economy) require the ability to deploy rapid frequent payouts. We are building a Technology Platform that will enable fast and ubiquitous push payments across a range of domestic and cross border use cases aiming to capture significant revenue opportunity across P2P B2SB and B2C flows and value-added services. Built on the latest standards/tech stack and providing open APIs this platform will help drive innovation in the entire ecosystem.

We value creative and driven individuals who love to own their products and design and implement solutions that create a seamless experience for consumers and clients.  Our developers work across the stack and are experts in service oriented architectures and technologies such as Java Java EE Spring ORM Oracle DB2 Cassandra React JS Hazelcast RabbitMQ Kafka Kubernetes and Docker.

As we embark on the journey to enhance the Visa Direct Payout Services (VDPS) technology platforms we are looking for a Senior Manager - Software Engineering who can participate in the detailed design and development activities for this product build.

Job Description

The role involves extensive hands-on activities. Here are key job responsibilities

• Understand the Payments industry and where Visa Direct Payout Services fits in the payments ecosystem

• Understand the business initiatives and their importance to the growth of Visa Direct Payout Services.

• Develop a good understanding of the Visa Direct Payout Services technology platforms and the 3 rails of money movement cards accounts and wallets.

• Collaborate with product owners and technical staff globally to define requirements for new features and enhancements to the platform.

• Evaluate technical options and provide recommendation on scope and scale of effort required to develop an end-to-end solution.

• Take ownership and lead the engineering responsibility for multiple components of the platform with a focus on security high scalability (3000 tps) and six nines of availability.

• Provide technical leadership to development team by participating in design performing design & code reviews and defect triaging.

• Encourage & ensure the team is utilize GenAI tools to enhance software development processes including code generation optimization and testing.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI solutions into existing systems and workflows.

• Coordinate engineering activities across the delivery of the project and work with engineers to ensure they are delivering efficiently and to high quality standards.

• Actively participate in defining architecture and creating solution documents consistently be hands-on with low level design code review coding and unit testing activities.

• Ability to identify and manage risks at all stages of the project and Co-ordinate and influence business and technology partners spread across different regions to mitigate risks.

• Build a culture of engineering excellence within the team drive adoption of practices like continuous integration security code reviews code coverage code quality and shift left practices.

• Invest in the career development of direct reports.

• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards processes and systems.

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

Qualifications :

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field with a minimum of 12 years of Software Development Experience or a Masters in Computer Science or related field with a minimum of 8 years of Software Development Experience
Experience of managing an engineering team of 8-12 experienced professionals who exercise latitude and independence in assignments for at least 2 years is mandatory. (Made up of both full-time employees and contractors)
Delivered complex projects where complexity is a function of a combination of these factors domain knowledge distributed architecture technical stack influencing and collaborating with multiple technology partners and business partners
Strong understanding of generative AI models and tools such as GPT Llama and Anthropic etc. and using MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Familiarity with GenAI tools such as GitHub copilot ChatGPT Claude Copilot for Microsoft 365 and other relevant platforms
Experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the requirements and independently architect design and resilient enterprise applications
Proficiency in Java 8 (Core Java memory management concurrency functional programming) and experience with REST APIs JSON and exposure to container based technologies
Experience in logging tools such as Splunk Humio etc. for Monitoring and Issue triage
Experience in driving the production/customer reported issues to closure
Experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery utilizing technologies such as GIT Maven Jenkins Chef Sonar Clover JUnit Mockito
Experience with shift left practices and performance testing applications
Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques
Passion to work with people and help mentor your team to reach new heights
Experience in the Payment domain 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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time