Engineering Manager (Sr SWE Manager) - job 1 of 3

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

What’s it all about?

You will be leading a key collections expansion team at Visa Money Movement Solutions / CurrencyCloud, and playing a lead role integrating with banks and delivering processing capability to enable our customers to make instant 24/7 payments into their accounts. 

The Engineering Manager will be reporting to the Collections Tribe Director of Engineering. The EM will be leading a team of 4+ software engineers and manage the technical delivery and quality of your teams work . You will also manage contract teams as required to deliver initiatives.

You will be working alongside versatile and experienced engineers improving our collections technical capabilities. This includes the following contributions: 

Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members. 

Contribute to building new patterns and architecture using an event-driven microservice architecture. 

Influence wider company architecture as we grow our technical capability and scale inline with the business

Work alongside smart QA engineers, who build and maintain a vast collection of automated testing scenarios.

This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice.

Technology
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical related field or relevant commercial experience
2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager or a Tech Lead with the willingness and capability to step into an EM role.
Experience building in software for financial domain is beneficial.
Experience working with agile process and principles.
Experience with Java microservices (springboot a bonus). 
Experience designing event based and streaming solutions using Kafka will be valued. 
Strong SQL knowledge, ability to understand and write complex queries.
Working knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL.
Experience building applications that run in Kubernetes would be handy.  
Working in a DevOps environment, or passion and willingness to work in this way.
Proven delivery of well-tested, scalable, fault-tolerant and performant solutions.
A pragmatic approach to solutions and delivery of technical projects.
Have been a driving force not only behind change in your previous roles but also in working in a distributed environment.
Having worked in a collaborative environment where you are comfortable reviewing code of your peers.

Personality
Genuinely interested in intersection of finance domain and technology. Desire to become a subject matter expert.
A self-starter who takes accountability for getting things done. 
Passionate about growing others while growing yourself. An interest for continuous improvement and helping engineers to understand the big picture.
Pragmatism in decision making and ability to get buy-in for ideas and getting them done.
Top-notch stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence colleagues in small, cross-functional scrum teams.
Comfortable working with external providers and senior internal stakeholders.
Exceptional structure and attention to detail.
Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work.
Great written and verbal communication skills.

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.