Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

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.

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: 

As a Senior Manager, you will be part of Risk and Identity Solutions team and will provide hands-on leadership to the team to build our applications in an agile development environment by hiring and building a world-class team of engineers, defining, executing and delivering functional and non-functional features at scale quickly and promoting a culture of cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence.  This position is based in Bangalore and will report to the Director of Software Engineering.

The Work itself: 

• Provide technical leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers (Full time employees and contractors)
• Deliver the product with moderately complex technical interdependencies with cross geographical teams.
• Actively participate in Solution design, architecture and development of key initiatives. Ensure developed solutions adhere to established architectural best patterns and target state. 
• Foster the culture of Engineering Excellence (quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.) , CI/CD, Automation and Shift-Left.
• Hire, retain and grow a high-performing team of software engineers.
• Invest in the career development of direct reports.
• Create an engineering culture of creativity and innovation.
• Provide technical leadership to development team by participating in design, performing design reviews and code reviews.
• Provide technical leadership for quality assurance and test engineering activities – manual and automation
• Lead scrum ceremonies and program management activities. Play a crucial role in interfacing with business stakeholders to define solutions and requirements, prioritize, and drive execution using agile methodologies.

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.

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)
• 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. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

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
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field required. Masters Degree or other advanced degree preferred.
• 12+ years of relevant experience with 2-3 years experience leading teams. Number of years of relevant experience is little flexible if you have excellent track record
• Expertise with the Java 17 platform or higher
• Expertise with Spring, Quarkus or similar framework
• Experience building microservices.
• Proven experience delivering highly scalable and available production systems.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and communication/articulation and reporting skills.
• Strong business acumen, ability to grasp big picture and explain to team in simple terms.
• Track record of hiring and managing world-class software engineers.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, leading scrum ceremonies and software development lifecycle principles.
• Understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and scalable transactional systems.
• Ability to manage multiple competing top priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working with diverse teams and stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple competing top priorities in a fast-paced environment.

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.