Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Visa

About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

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. 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:

• Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering teams, providing technical direction, coaching, performance guidance, and career development support to software engineers and technical leads.
• Design, code, review, and oversee scalable, secure, and resilient systems that support global products and platforms, while advancing Visa’s standards for reliability, maintainability, performance, security, and reusability.
• Partner with product owners, architects, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to gather and refine requirements, align priorities, resolve dependencies, and deliver solutions that support customer needs and business objectives.
• Drive end-to-end delivery of new capabilities and business flows across agile squads, contributing to solution design, development, testing, release planning, adoption, and operational support.
• Develop robust and scalable products for a wide range of customers, including merchants, consumers, financial institutions, B2B clients, and business-to-government solutions.
• Leverage innovative technologies to build next-generation payment capabilities, including Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, Buy Now Pay Later solutions, data-driven services, and AI-enabled tools.
• Champion product quality and service excellence by improving reliability, observability, resiliency, automation, performance, security, customer experience, and operational readiness.

Essential Functions

• Create and scale engineering best practices, frameworks, documentation, and reusable assets that improve development quality, delivery predictability, platform adoption, user enablement, and operational efficiency.
• Provide domain expertise and technical thought leadership across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams by documenting solutions, training colleagues, sharing best practices, and supporting payment optimization initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to automate insights and improve decision-making through data, analytics dashboards, AI-enabled tools, system metrics, and reusable engineering assets.
• Manage execution across agile teams, ensuring alignment on scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, quality standards, and measurable business outcomes.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leaders, product teams, customer-facing teams, and client stakeholders.
• Make an impact at global and local scale through mentorship, continuous learning, inclusive leadership, collaboration, and contributions to Visa’s engineering culture.

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
8+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, 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
Consumer/user facing application development experience.
Experience in commercial software development on Unix/Linux environment.
Experience in developing and deploying containers.
Understand the Security requirements and standards like JWT, OAuth, SAML and contemporary trends in Security risks as well as technologies.
Experience in security domain with authentication, authorization and building secure gateway.
Experience developing & deploying services in a multi-cloud environment like
GCP, Azure & AWS.
Experience in Java/J2EE technologies, Kubernetes, Swarm and database technologies
Understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and scalable transactional systems.
Experience in cloud migration and multi cloud strategy.
Experience with agile development process
Superior verbal, written & interpersonal communication skills with both technical & non-technical audiences
Excellent team player, with strong collaboration skills and ability to influence
cross-functional team for results

The Skills You Bring:

Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale

Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions

Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)

Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability

Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

U.S. Applicants Only

The estimated salary range for this position is $162,500.00 to $ 260,400.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity.Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

Work Hours

Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements

This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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 protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.