Lead Engineer – Innovation Centers and Regional Solutions

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

Are you passionate about conceptualizing, nurturing, developing, and proving new ideas and developing them into new solutions? Would you like to help create the next major innovation in and around the payment landscape pioneering and leveraging the most advanced devices, hardware, and software in the world, anything, and everything in and around the world’s largest payment ecosystem?

We’re looking for a seasoned individual to drive game-changing innovation in and around Visa’s partner ecosystem for North America. You should have experience building multi-skilled teams capable of rapid prototyping new ideas. You and your team will be at the forefront of strategic partnerships, breakthrough technologies, new ideas, hackathons, demos, and rapid prototyping. You will work closely with business development teams, partners, and internal product teams and cross-leverage engineering talent internally and externally.

Responsibilities

• Be at the heart of developing new ideas into demo-able products, and ultimately to commercial product
• Work alongside and collaborate with UX, engineering, and partner teams to deliver products, features, services, and tools
• Drive rapid prototyping cycles from technical requirements, software designs, programming, debugging, and optimization
• Explore and innovate new technologies, features, and tools
• Consult on a regular basis with leadership to align expectations and deliverables
• Be scrappy and work with the small team to the fullest to work on multiple parallel POCs and incubation efforts
• Able to scale the successful pilots to full commercial solutions
• Use stubs as needed to simulate capabilities lighting up soon
• Work collaboratively across team boundaries to share common infrastructure and functional capabilities. Provide feedback into core product teams to influence their roadmap and strategy

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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD
• Passion for innovation, new ideas, quick prototyping, hackathons etc.
• Prior work exploring and innovating new IP, genres, and product experiences
• Professional experience in ideation and incubation which has led to shipping products
• Multi-disciplinary skills and experience in ideation, software design, programming, debugging, and optimization
• Solid understanding of payment industry and multi-channel commerce space
• Experience, ideas, and opinions about emerging trends such as Biometric Authentication, Internet of Things, and Digital Currency
• Proven skillset and track record in developing one line ideas into products
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Self-motivated and drive for excellence
• Have an open-minded approach to development strategy and approaches
• Capable of building culture for innovation
• Technical hands-on skills, ideally in multiple technology stacks for web development, APIs and Mobile application development on diverse platforms


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
• Prior experience working in a start-up or at VC firms in a Resident Entrepreneur capacity
• Financial services and/or payments processing industry experience is a plus
• Patents and other proofs of past success in creating IP

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new h