Director- Java Full Stack-14+yrs

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.

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity: 

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale.  You will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.    

The Work itself: 

As a Director, you will lead a world-class team of Engineers to define, drive and execute on a shared strategic vision for Payment Products. You will be closely working with Business partners to understand and elaborate requirements. You will drive the development and integration efforts and work with technical partners to facilitate use cases, sizing efforts, and timelines. You will initiate processes that allow the team to collaborate with local as well as global teams with a high degree of efficiency. You will lead a team of highly motivated and talented individuals that can collaborate with Project Managers, Product Partners, and SMEs across the company on high impact Payment Product initiatives. 

• Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution 

• Work with product partners in developing a strategy and road maps to provide compelling capabilities that helps them succeed in their business goals 

• Work closely with architects and senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development 

• Instill best practices for software development, and deliver high quality work on tight schedules 

• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes 

• Mentor junior team members, develop departmental procedures and best practices standards 

• Collaborate, negotiate, manage tradeoffs, and evaluate new ideas with business partners 

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Basic Qualifications
10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
10+ years of experience in building large-scale data processing applications, at least 3 years of which were in leading engineering teams

Extensive experience in full stack projects, demonstrating proficiency in both front-end development, including frameworks like Angular or React, and back-end development using frameworks such as Spring Framework and Spring Boot

Experience with DBMS, including RDBMS like MySQL and in-memory databases like Redis

Strong knowledge of API design and development

Hands-on expertise with Java

Deep knowledge of Unix/Linux

Familiarity with AI concepts and tools, including GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Agentic AI

Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes

Experience with highly distributed, scalable, concurrent, and low latency systems

Experience working in an Agile and Test-Driven Development environment

Proven experience delivering large scale, highly available production software

Strong business and technical vision

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a strong automation mindset

Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

A deep understanding of end-to-end software development in a team, and a track record of shipping software on time

Demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor, strong attention to detail, team oriented, energetic, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style

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.