Senior Manager; Software Engineering

The Opportunity:

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Software Engineer, 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:

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa's internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability
• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads
• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities

Essential Functions:

• Works with product owners to gather and refine requirements for one product, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions across departments.
• Develops and designs moderately advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable, considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem.
• Provides domain expertise on the development of user documentation of solutions and implements standard processes in user documentation.
• Plays a significant role in the development and delivery of new features within a product from end-to-end.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

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:

9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD

Were seeking a Senior Manager of Engineering with 12+ years of total experience (including 3+ years in a people management role) who combines deep technical mastery in Java, Distributed Systems, and AI-First engineering with proven people leadership to build, grow, and inspire high-performing engineering teams. You will drive technical strategy, foster an AI-first culture, and partner with product and business leadership to deliver globally-scaled, intelligent systems.

Education Experience

12+ years of total software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a direct people management role

Bachelor's or Masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, or related field

Demonstrated track record of leading engineering teams of 69+ engineers across multiple levels (junior through senior/staff)

People Management Leadership Skills

• Proven ability to recruit, hire, and onboard engineering talent across all levels (junior, senior, staff, and principal engineers)
• Experience designing and executing structured interview processes and calibration sessions to ensure consistent, bias-aware hiring decisions
• Skill in identifying skills gaps across the team and building development plans to address them
• Track record of growing engineers into senior and staff roles through targeted mentorship and stretch assignments
• Ability to build a team culture that attracts and retains diverse, high-caliber engineering talent

Performance Management

• Experience running effective performance review cycles: setting expectations, delivering feedback, calibrating ratings, and handling performance improvement plans when needed
• Ability to differentiate performance across a team and make fair, documented compensation and promotion decisions
• Skill in providing timely, specific, and constructive feedback both reinforcing and redirecting in a psychologically safe environment
• Experience managing underperformance with empathy and clear accountability, including difficult conversations
• Ability to set clear, measurable individual and team goals aligned to business and technical objectives

Career Development Coaching

• Strong coaching skills to help engineers identify career goals and create actionable development plans
• Experience sponsoring engineers for high-visibility projects, promotions, and leadership opportunities
• Ability to identify and cultivate tech leads and future managers from within the team
• Skill in facilitating 1:1s that go beyond status updates: career conversations, motivation, blockers, and personal growth
• Experience building mentorship and buddy programs to accelerate onboarding and knowledge transfer

Core Technical Skills

Java Distributed Systems Expertise:

• Deep hands-on background in Java, Spring, Hibernate with an ability to guide architectural trade-offs at the engineering level
• Strong understanding of advanced Java development: concurrency, multithreading, performance optimization, and JVM tuning
• Expertise in distributed system architectures: microservices, event-driven design, service mesh, and distributed consensus (Raft, Paxos)
• Deep knowledge of distributed data management patterns: CQRS, Event Sourcing, Saga, and eventual consistency
• Experience with distributed caching (Redis, Hazelcast, Memcached) and streaming platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar)
• Understanding of CAP theorem and distributed transaction management applied at enterprise scale
• Experience building and leading teams that deliver highly available, fault-tolerant systems with disaster recovery
• Working knowledge of service discovery, load balancing, and circuit breaker patterns across large deployments
• Familiarity with major Java IDEs (IntelliJ, Eclipse) and core tooling: GIT/Stash, Maven, Jenkins
• Strong background in API Development using REST, SOAP, JSON, and XML
• Deep knowledge of API security standards: OAuth, SAML, JWT
• Experience overseeing teams building GraphQL, gRPC, and modern API gateway solutions
• Understanding of API versioning, rate limiting, and distributed API lifecycle management
• Background with async/reactive APIs using Spring WebFlux or equivalent

AI-First Engineering Skills:

• Ability to evaluate and champion AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Cline, or similar)
• Hands-on familiarity with LLM integration