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

Commercial & Money Movement Solutions (CMS) division’s charter is to capture new sources of money movement through card and non-card flows, including Visa Commercial Solutions, Government Solutions and Visa Direct which presents an enormous growth opportunity. Our global clients and partners deploy our solutions to serve the needs of Small Businesses, Middle Market Clients, Large Corporate Clients, Multi Nationals and Governments.

Digital solutions and Business Reporting are integral parts of solution that provide small business clients a rich set of functionalities. We are looking for a Director (Mobile Engineering) to join our Small Business engineering team and lead a talented team of engineers.

Primary responsibilities for this role will include:

Provide leadership and oversight to a team of mobile app engineers in the iOS & Android app domains.

Drive productivity through engineering fundamentals and industry best practices.

Play a crucial role in interfacing with business stakeholders to define solutions & requirements, prioritize, and drive execution using agile methodologies.

Foster the culture of automation & Shift-Left

Hire top engineering talent, provide mentoring, coaching and guidance to your staff to nurture and grow talent.

Create an engineering culture of creativity and innovation

Drive development of new products by building quick POCs and converting ideas into real products.

Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to deliver high quality products and services that meet business requirements and exceeds expectations while applying the latest available tools and technology.

Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner

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
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 in engineering, computer science or a related field.
Proven track record in managing mobile engineering teams, developing & deploying mobile apps on iOS & Android with large scale adoption & usage.
Experience in iOS and Android app design, development & deployment
Strong understanding of architecture patterns like Microservices and operational characteristics of highly available and scalable applications.
Proven track record to recruit, grow & retain top talent
Ability to collaborate in a globally distributed environment.
Strong analytical, problem solving and communication/articulation skills.
Strong business acumen, ability to grasp big picture and explain to team in simple terms.
Previous experience with financial services/payments processing experiences a big plus.

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.