Software Engineering, Sr. Manager

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

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: 

The Risk and Identity Solutions (RaIS) team is leading in innovation to create secure authentication experience for our customers and partners. As a Software Engineering, Sr. Manager in RaIS, you will provide active leadership to the team to execute this mission, by leading 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. We expect you to be a idea leader and bring industry practices to benefit the team. This position is based in Austin, Texas and will report to the Senior Director of Software Engineering.

Essential Functions: 

• Provide active guidance to the team on development, security management, release management.
• Provide leadership to team of developers including full-time employees and contractors.
• Invest in careers of individual developers. Mentor the team for challenges. Total team size is 7+ developers.
• Increase team productivity through Automation/GenAI.
• Provide technical leadership to by participating in end-to-end product development lifecycle and working with stakeholders to define delivery roadmap.
• Build a culture of engineering excellence (quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.)
• Partner with product owners in developing a strategy and roadmap that align with business goals.
• Create an environment of trust and collaboration across stakeholders.
• A senior manager is expected to be directly involved in development, including coding.

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
• Leadership Expertise: Motivate, influence and lead by example to establish and achieve common goals across Visa.
• 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.

NOTE:  Relocation and immigration sponsorship are not available for this role.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 8 + years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience. (This is the base BQ approved by legal )

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9 + years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7+ relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field required or 3+ years of experience with a PhD
• 2+ years of technical leadership experience.
• Strong coding background in Java, Kubernetes, MongoDB, and Redis is required.
• Proven ability to improve productivity using automation or AI tools.
• Experience collaborating in cross-functional, globally distributed teams.
• Growth mindset, curiosity, and a drive to learn and apply new technologies (e.g., React, Angular, Docker).
• Excellent communication, mentorship, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in UI/UX develop