Sr. Engineering Manager (Full Stack)

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: 

As a Sr. Engineering Manager, you will lead a world-class team of Engineers to define, drive and execute on a shared strategic vision for Payment Products. You will drive the development and integration efforts collaborating with technical partners to facilitate use cases, estimate project sizes, and manage timelines. You will lead a team of highly motivated and talented individuals that can collaborate with Project Managers, Product Owners, 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 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 & motivate junior team members.  

• Resolve team conflicts and keep team focused on the VISION.  

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

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

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications :

• 7+ 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, ReactJS or similar UI Framework, and back-end development using frameworks such as Spring Framework and Spring Boot
• Strong design and coding skills with Java/J2EE and Web technologies like Spring Boot, Hibernate, JSON, String working experience Object-Oriented Design REST web services
• Experience with DBMS, including RDBMS like MySQL and in-memory databases like Redis
• Knowledge and working experience on Git/Stash, Jenkins, and Jira
• Deep knowledge of Unix/Linux
• Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design optimized for building highly distributed and parallelized systems
• Strong knowledge of API design and development
• 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 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
• Passionate about learning and applying new technologies and delivering working solution
• Experience with containerization and cloud technologies are advantageous
• Familiarity with AI concepts and tools, including GitHub Copilot for code development
• Strategic thinker with good business acumen to orient software engineering to the business needs of internal and external clients.
• Previous exposure to financial services is a plus, but not required.

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.