Senior Manager Software Engineering - Backend

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

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:

We are looking for multiple talented, curious, and energetic Software Engineers and Software Engineering Managers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale.  As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a cross-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of cutting-edge payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.

The Work itself:

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability

• Collaborate cross-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings

• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, value added 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:

• This unique role involves a blend of people management (initially 30%) and hands-on development (initially 70%), including design, code review, and mentoring junior team members. As our team and projects grow, the people management aspect of the role will also expand.

• Go-getter, problem solver, result oriented and Leads change

• Making sure that product is delivered in time

• Collaborates closely with product, technology, and management

• Possesses product innovation and development mindset

• Proficient in analyzing & translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture and working with cross functional teams

• Participate in staffing decisions, including hiring and performance evaluations. Lead the hiring and expanding the initial team

• Report the development progress to the management

• Ensures that development team is producing high quality code

• Maintains information security in the workplace and in the organization

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code

• Implement Spring (Boot) and Hibernate frameworks

• Develop and maintain RESTful services

• Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio for containerization, orchestration, and service mesh

• Supports relationship with product owners to gather and refine requirements for one product task, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions within a product

• Begins to develop and design architect solutions, considering integrations with other solutions

• Provides relevant knowledge on the development of technical documentation of solutions and follows best practices in technical documentation

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features