Director of Engineering

Visas Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the worlds 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 youll 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: 

Were looking for a versatile curious and energetic Software Engineering Leader to help drive Visas digital payment innovation. You will join the Payment Products & Digital (PPD) teambuilders of industrydefining platforms such as Visa Token Services and Visa Click to Pay and contributors to global standards bodies including EMVCo and W3C.

About the Product:

Visa Click to Pay based on the latest EMV Secure Remote Commerce specifications enables a simple faster and more secure online checkout experience. It eliminates the need to manually enter card numbers search for passwords or complete long formsbringing frictionless checkout to millions of Visa cardholders. You will help shape the next evolution of this global platform.

As a Director of Software Engineering youll lead a multifunctional development team responsible for designing building and delivering software used by consumers and businesses around the world. Your work will directly influence how billions of people securely shop and pay online.

The Work itself: 

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visas 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:

• Aligns enhancements and modifications to existing software coding standard processes and design specifications across regions and ensures they are aligned with current security standards.

• Guides the implementation of automation to improve effectiveness and efficiencies of systems and tools across regions and supports development and implementation of new automation identifying where investment will yield the greatest efficiencies.

• Maintains communication with regional leadership across functions to monitor and direct the cadence of code reviews on-call rotations and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles.

• Leverages back-end technical expertise on underlying systems/platforms across the organization to lead the development systematic improvements in processes to ensure the fulfillment of customer/business objectives.

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

• 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

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

Qualifications :

• 12 or more years of work experience with a University Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering Science MathAt least 3 years in a leadership or management role
• Experience in commercial software development on Unix/Linux environment.
• Experience in Java/J2EE technologies Container and database technologies
• Familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React/Redux TypeScript etc.)
• Experience working on cross-browser cross-device hybrid apps
• Consumer/user facing application development experience.
• Understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and scalable transactional systems.
• Domain knowledge of Payment Processing and Tokenization.
• Experience in the Payment domain is a plus
• Hands-on experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) and their integration into business solutions.
• Experience in designing and maintaining highly available (99.999%) and performant critical systems.
• Adept at leveraging GenAI tools like Copilot Claude Sonnet for faster development
• Experience in AI/ML is a plus.
• Experience with agile development process

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