Sr. Manager - Software Engineering (13+ yrs exp, Java Fullstack, Agile, TDD)

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

As a Senior Manager, you will be part of Acceptance Solutions Payments Team and will provide hands-on leadership to the team to build our NextGen Transaction Processing System in an agile development environment by hiring and building a world-class team of engineers, defining, executing and delivering functional and non-functional features at scale quickly and promoting a culture of cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence.  This position is based in Bangalore and will report to the Director of Software Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers(Full time employees and contractors)
• Deliver the product with moderately complex technical interdependencies with cross geographical teams.
• Actively participate in Solution design, architecture and development of key initiatives.Ensure developed solutions adhere to established architectural best patterns and target state.
• Foster the culture of Engineering Excellence(quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.) , CI/CD, Automation and Shift-Left.
• Hire, retain and grow a high-performing team of software engineers.
• Invest in the career development of direct reports.
• Create an engineering culture of creativity and innovation.
• Provide technical leadership to development team by participating in design, performing design reviews and code reviews.
• Provide technical leadership for quality assurance and test engineering activities – manual and automation
• Lead scrum ceremonies and program management activities. Play a crucial role in interfacing with business stakeholders to define solutions and requirements, prioritize, and drive execution using agile methodologies.

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

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field required. Masters Degree or other advanced degree preferred.
• 12+ years of relevant experience with 2-3 years experience leading teams. Number of years of relevant experience is little flexible if you have excellent track record
• Expertise with the Java 8 platform or higher
• Expertise with Spring, Vertx or similar framework
• Experience building microservices, specifically with HTTP, REST, JSON and XML.
• Proven experience delivering highly scalable and available production systems.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and communication/articulation and reporting skills.
• Strong business acumen, ability to grasp big picture and explain to team in simple terms.
• Track record of hiring and managing world-class software engineers.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, leading scrum ceremonies and software development lifecycle principles.
• Test driven development, Testing experience with web and mobile applications built on Java and/or C#, Proficiency with Selenium, QTP or similar automation tools.
• Experience testing software at the API level using SOA suite, SOAP UI, Postman, REST Client, etc.
• Ability to manage multiple competing top priorities in a fast-paced environment.

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.