Senior Software Engineering Manager

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Payments Products Development 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. PPD 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.

PPD  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 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.

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

• Demonstrate our Visa values of passion for creating leadership in everyone and creating products that excel in customer experience with security in mind.

• 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 Mobile engineering teams.

• Focus on automation and aspiring towards zero defects across all supported use cases.

• 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. 

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

• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a University degree
• At least 2-3 years of work experience leading engineering teams and people management experience
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture and operational best practices for building and maintaining highly available / scalable applications
• Experience with consumer facing application development
• Experience with mobile technologies (Android/iOS)
• 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
• 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.