Sr. Manager, SW Engineering

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.

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Visa’s Technology Organization as the world’s leader in digital payments technology, Visa’s mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment platform - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive.

Cross-border remittances and new business models (e.g., gig economy) require the ability to deploy rapid, frequent payouts. We are building a Technology Platform that will enable fast and ubiquitous push payments across a range of domestic and cross border use cases aiming to capture significant revenue opportunity across P2P, B2SB, and B2C flows and value-added services. Built on the latest standards/tech stack and providing open APIs, this platform will help drive innovation in the entire ecosystem.

We value creative and driven individuals who love to own their products, and design and implement solutions that create a seamless experience for consumers and clients. Our developers work across the stack, and are experts in service oriented architectures and technologies such as Java, Java EE, Spring, ORM, Oracle, DB2, Cassandra, React JS, Hazelcast, Rabbit

MQ, Kafka, Kubernetes and Docker.

As we embark on the journey to enhance the Visa Direct Payout Services (VDPS) technology platforms, we are looking for a Senior Manager - Software Engineering who can participate in the detailed design and development activities for this product build.

The role involves extensive hands‑on activities. Here are key job responsibilities

• Understand the Payments industry and where Visa Direct Payout Services fits in the payment’s ecosystem

• Understand the business initiatives and their importance to the growth of Visa Direct Payout Services.

• Develop a good understanding of the Visa Direct Payout Services technology platforms and the 3 rails of money movement – cards, accounts and wallets.

• Collaborate with product owners and technical staff globally to define requirements for new features and enhancements to the platform.

• Evaluate technical options and provide recommendation on scope and scale of effort required to develop an end‑to‑end solution.

• Take ownership and lead the engineering responsibility for multiple components of the platform with a focus on security, high scalability (3000+ tps), and six nines of availability.

• Provide technical leadership to development team by participating in design, performing design & code reviews and defect triaging.

• Encourage & ensure the team is utilize GenAI tools to enhance software development processes, including code generation, optimization, and testing.

• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to integrate AI solutions into existing systems and workflows.

• Coordinate engineering activities across the delivery of the project and work with engineers to ensure they are delivering efficiently and to high quality standards.

• Actively participate in defining architecture and creating solution documents consistently, be hands‑on with low level design, code review, coding and unit testing activities.

• Ability to identify and manage risks at all stages of the project and Co‑ordinate and influence business and technology partners spread across different regions to mitigate risks.

• Build a culture of engineering excellence within the team, drive adoption of practices like continuous integration, security, code reviews, code coverage, code quality and shift left practices.

• Invest in the career development of direct reports.

• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards, processes and…