Director, Software Engineering @ Visa
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Company Description
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion transactions flowing securely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in over 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments, enabling individuals and businesses to thrive.
Job Description
The Acceptance Solutions (AS) team is transforming to maintain our market leadership and brand reputation. As the Director, Software Engineering for the Global Acquirer Payment Team within the AS Payments Portfolio, you will lead a high-performing engineering team in delivering scalable functional and non-functional features while promoting collaboration and engineering excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee the full development lifecycle and manage complex projects.
- Lead multiple teams including full-time employees and contractors.
- Ensure product delivery across regions amidst technical interdependencies.
- Adopt a GenAI-first approach for innovative, rapid development.
- Provide technical leadership through design reviews and code reviews.
- Cultivate an engineering culture emphasizing quality, security, and scalability.
- Collaborate with product managers on strategies and roadmaps.
- Work with remote teams to align product development efforts.
- Minimize technical debt and reduce operational/support costs.
- Recruit, retain, and develop a high-performing engineering team.
- Invest in the career growth of direct reports.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications: 10+ years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent advanced degree experience; Preferred Qualifications: 12+ years of experience, expertise in Java, Spring/Vertx, microservices, messaging systems (Kafka, IBM MQ), NoSQL, and AI modelling, with strong leadership and agile methodology knowledge.
Additional Information
This is a hybrid position based in Austin, with occasional travel (5-10%). Visa offers a comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), and more.
Key skills/competency
Director, Software Engineering, leadership, engineering, software, microservices, GenAI, payments, agile, Java, scalability
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