Director, 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

The Acceptance Solutions Product Development team are the engineers responsible for a portfolio of products that drive diversification of Visa revenue, differentiate our network, and deliver value-added solutions across other rails. This is part of a strategy to increase total merchant value by developing solutions that address complex and emerging needs of both merchants and acquirers. Our mission is to drive the future of payment acceptance, helping our clients navigate digital commerce complexities and address an increasing need for flexibility and agility.

The goal of the Visa Acceptance Platform is to be the world’s most open payment platform by delivering market leading, globally relevant, omnichannel acceptance componentry through open, composable, modular APIs delivered with Visa-grade resilience, security, maintenance, and scale.

We are seeking a dynamic Engineering Leader to lead our team of engineers who work on high-performing distributed systems. Our stack includes the Java Vertx platform, Kafka for messaging, RDBMS for persistence, and the Docker platform. The ideal candidate will have prior experience implementing distributed systems based on the Java platform and will be adept at designing resilient software solutions in collaboration with architects. This role requires a leader who is proficient with GenAI, can enhance team productivity, and is adaptable to tactical or strategic approaches. A key part of this role involves mentoring team members to foster career growth.

This position offers an incredible opportunity to lead and develop a team of talented engineers. If you are passionate about people management and have a strong background in software engineering, we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of engineers in developing high-performing distributed systems.
• Collaborate with architects to design resilient software solutions.
• Drive the professional growth of each team member.
• Leverage GenAI within the team to enhance effectiveness.
• Adapt to a strategic or tactical approach as per the situation.
• Improve team productivity through effective management strategies.
• Ensure the team meets project deadlines and maintains high-quality standards.

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.

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 Bachelor’s 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
• A Master's / bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
• Demonstrable experience as a People Manager in a software engineering environment.
• Extensive experience with distributed systems, Java Vertx platform, Kafka messaging, RDBMS persistence, and Docker platform.
• Prior experience implementing mission critical resilient distributed systems with high availability based on the Java platform.
• Proficiency in designing resilient software solutions in collaboration with architects.
• Familiarity with GenAI and its practical applications.
• Proven ability to enhance team productivity.
• Excellent leadership and mentoring skills.
• Ability to adapt to strategic or tactical approaches as per the situation.

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