Senior Software Engineering Manager

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Value Added Services Product Development (VAS PD) department aims to support Visa’s Global Product strategy of growing our business through product offerings that add value to the payments experience and to capitalize on emerging market opportunities in regional payment networks and digital wallets. VAS PD team is responsible for architecture, design, and development of Visa's digital and mobile products, including Click to Pay, Visa Mobile Pay, Secure Remote Commerce, Visa Token Services, Push Payments, and Visa Digital Commerce App.

VAS PD  is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead a world-class team of software and systems engineers to deliver client-ready solutions by building the next generation of systems, automation and tools to support overall productivity and developer efficiencies. You will provide strategy, vision and technical leadership to the product development organizations across Visa Mobile Pay  to ensure engineering teams are building products that use a foundational approach that prioritizes high availability and security.

You will be responsible for hiring and developing top engineering talent, keeping the team highly engaged and motivated while delivering exceptional results. Your ability to work across functions and teams will allow you to ensure alignment of priorities and goals, drive results and foster the right culture and environment to achieve Engineering Excellence and Innovation. You will be responsible for working with product development, quality engineering, security engineering, enterprise operations and other internal and external technology partners to deliver products for business integration & enablement. 

This position will be based in Warsaw, Poland and will report directly to our Director of Engineering.

We are looking for someone who is able to:

• Work in a matrix organization, empowering other team members and delivering results. 
• Develop individual career development plans for team members, mentor and grow their talent.
• Nurture team of developers and test engineers by motivating and mentoring, influencing large cross functional teams.
• Recruit and hire top talent for our JAVA and TypeScript engineering teams.
• Focus on automation and aspiring towards zero defects across all supported use cases.
• Drive technology and business vision, design, develop and evolve highly scalable and highly performant UI components based front-end apps using functional programming paradigm.
• Partner with our product management teams to develop strong and effective relationships. 
• Work with other engineering and product leaders to evolve our delivery processes and drive cross-team collaboration and cooperation. 
• Provide training and professional development opportunities for full-time employees. 

Responsibilities:

• Own full stack quality, scalability and availability across multiple applications, features, and technology initiatives
• Point of contact for senior leadership stakeholders and cross-functional teams
• Create and implement goals and action plans to align with overall organization objectives.
• Emulate strong management and leadership principles with the capacity to engage, motivate, mentor and coach teams distributed across various geographical locations.
• Communicate and adapt presentations to various stakeholders regarding goals, planning process, project initiatives, team innovation and results.
• Implement, gather, and report team/project metrics to track execution and effectiveness.
• On-board high caliber engineers within planned budget and timeline
• Accountable for the quality of development activities during the release of products to production.
• Act decisively and collaborate to remove impediments for the team.
• Partner with Test, Release Engineering, Performance, Security and Release Management for timely releases and resolution of any impediments
• Establish and maintain relationships with payment partners in the industry creating technology solutions providing highly scalable UI integrations.
• Demonstrate our Visa values of passion for creating leadership in everyone and creating products that excel in customer experience with security in mind.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.
 

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:

• 8+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture and operational best practices for building and maintaining highly available / scalable applications
• You have experience with consumer facing application development
• Experience with client-side technologies such as TypeScript, ReactJS and NextJS
• Experience with microservices architecture with JAVA Spring Boot
• Experience with containers and cloud native solution development
• Experience with designing and building integrations using Docker, Kubernetes, Java, JavaScript, REST and SOAP web services
• Experience with translating business requirements into technical designs
• 2+ years of work experience leading engineering teams
• 3+ years of people management experience
• Proven track record of responsibilities as a technical lead/solutions architect
• Highly proficient with Continuous Integration / Delivery framework (CI/CD), release and change management, Sprint based agile delivery
• Ability to work with teams in multiple geographical locations and time zones
• Experience with Payment and/or Credit Card processing considered a plus

Additional Information

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.