Director, Software Engineering
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Job Location:
Bellevue, WA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
5 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
We are seeking a Director of Software Engineering who combines strategic leadership with strong technical depth. This role leads multiple engineering teams while maintaining hands-on involvement in architecture decisions technical reviews and proof-of-concepts. You will drive engineering excellence influence technology strategy and ensure delivery of scalable secure solutions that impact millions globally.
Essential Functions:
- Lead and inspire engineering teams fostering a culture of innovation and accountability
- Guide architecture decisions review critical components and contribute to proof-of-concepts
- Collaborate with Product and Architecture leaders to define technology roadmaps
- Establish processes for code quality automation and operational excellence
- Hire mentor and retain top engineering talent
- Champion adoption of emerging technologies (AI/ML GenAI cloud-native architectures)
- Drive measurable improvements in engineering efficiency and system performance
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Qualifications :
Basic Qualifications:
- 10 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree OR 13 years of relevant work experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD
- Solid understanding of Large Language Models Generative AI systems and applications.
- Background in developing and deploying AIML platforms and applications in on premises and public cloud infrastructure.
- Have prior hands-on experience using languages such as Python Go Java Python Rust. Strong on coding and code reviews.
- Experience in leading teams that have built full stack applications from the ground-up using distributed high performance and scalable technologies such as K8s Docker Ray Airflow Hadoop Spark Kafka and so on.
- Experience in leading teams that have built cloud platform solutions using AWS Azure and GCP for high performance real time AIML applications
- Experience in DevSecOps world - Github/Git CI/CD Pipelines Jenkins Ansible Shell Scripts Security Tools Observability Alerting IaC etc.
Skills Youll Bring:
- Strategic leadership with a proven ability to manage multiple teams and large-scale programs
- Deep technical expertise in modern architectures (microservices cloud-native) security engineering and API platforms
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies and software development lifecycle principles
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive organizational change
- Experience balancing hands-on technical involvement with leadership responsibilities
- Excellent problem-solving communication and collaboration skills
- Payments industry experience is a plus
Additional Information :
Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk communicate in person and by telephone frequently operate standard office equipment such as telephones and computers.
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.
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.
U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for this position is 186800.00 to 299200.00 USD per year which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge skills experience and addition this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical Dental Vision 401 (k) FSA/HSA Life Insurance Paid Time Off and Wellness Program.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Go
- Lean
- Management Experience
- React
- Node.js
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Research & Development
- Software Development
- Team Management
- GraphQL
- Leadership Experience
About Company
Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Our purpose is to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and b ... View more
