Director, Software Engineering

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

The Merchant & Acquirer Processing team is going through a transformation to converge our enterprise and small business platforms while maintaining our market leading position and strong brand reputation across these segments. As a Director of Software Engineering, you will provide hands-on leadership to the team to execute this mission, by hiring and building 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. This position is based in Bangalore and will report to the Senior Director of Software Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

Lead a team of 10 to 15 members made up of both full-time employees and contractors.
Deliver the product despite complex technical interdependencies with cross geographical teams.
Provide technical leadership to development team by participating in design, performing design reviews and code reviews.
Build a culture of engineering excellence (quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.)
Partner with product managers in developing a strategy and roadmap that align with business goals.
Partner with remote teams to ensure alignment across product development.
Drive down technical debt and cost of operations/support.
Manage the prioritizations and delivery of enhancements and bug fixes on platform.
Provide oversight for managed services work happening in your area.
Ensure the process for incident management, change management and problem management are followed.
Hire, retain and grow a high-performing team of software engineers.
Invest in the career development of direct reports.
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:
14+ years of relevant experience with 4-6 years’ experience leading teams.
Expertise with the Java 8 platform or higher
Expertise with Spring, Vertx, Akka framework or similar
Experience building microservices, specifically with HTTP, REST, JSON and XML. Expertise in System Design & Security
Experience with relationship and NoSQL database
Proven experience delivering highly scalable and available production systems.
Strong analytical, problem solving and communication/articulation skills.
Strong business acumen, ability to grasp big picture and explain to team in simple terms.
Track record of hiring and managing world-class software engineers.
Experience with Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle principles.
Ability to manage multiple competing top priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.