Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

Overview

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you ll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

This position is for a Senior Manager who will lead high-impact engineering teams focused on delivering high-quality features and capabilities for Visa s strategic clients, including merchants, acquirers, technology partners, and SMB platforms.

• Lead end-to-end solution delivery: conceptual approach, technical analysis, design, development, unit testing, deployment, and support.
• Provide architectural input and maintain a deep understanding of the tech stack to guide technology decisions and ensure alignment with strategic roadmaps.
• Ensure delivery of highly secure, scalable, resilient real-time and batch systems.
• Establish and enforce quality standards, conduct code reviews, oversee testing, and lead troubleshooting and defect resolution.
• Collaborate with business partners on requirements elaboration, workflow design, configuration, and process reengineering.
• Align team goals with broader organizational and strategic objectives.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and upper management, providing updates and advocating for team success.
• Lead and manage multiple agile teams across simultaneous projects with competing timelines.
• Oversee planning, scheduling, resource allocation, and execution to deliver on time and within budget.
• Work with delivery partners, systems integrators, and product vendors on specifications, version management, code reviews, and implementation activities.
• Collaborate globally across business and technology units, driving analysis, process improvements, and change leadership.
• Hire, lead, and develop a diverse team of engineers; mentor and coach team members to identify strengths and development opportunities.
• Foster a collaborative, empowering environment that supports innovation and high performance.
• Participate in production support activities including troubleshooting, defect research, promotions, and configuration.
• Drive continuous improvement and adoption of best practices across engineering and delivery.

Basic Qualifications: 8+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor s degree, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications: 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more years with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years with a PhD. 3+ years in financial services, banking, or Fin Tech. Deep understanding of enterprise architecture and best practices for highly available/scalable applications. Experience with consumer-facing application development.

Proven track record as a technical lead. Experience with Java, C#, Web Frameworks, JavaScript and container-based technologies. Experience with SQL and No-SQL databases and analytic techniques including process and data modeling. Demonstrated experience in leading 2 or more Scrum teams in an Agile environment. Experience developing product roadmaps, writing user stories, backlog grooming, and managing cross-team dependencies. Ability to drive engineering excellence through CI/CD, code quality, and Dev Ops practices.

GenAI-First Mindset: embraces Generative AI technologies to enhance productivity, innovation, and customer experience; advocates for AI-driven solutions in engineering practices and product development; encourages experimentation and adoption of GenAI tools across teams.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/

Physical Requirements:

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is  to  USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments. Salary may vary depending on job-related factors including knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This position may be eligible for bonus and…