Director Software Engineering

Visa•Foster City, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Visa’s Global Token Services Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of digital commerce. We operate the tokenization platform that powers fan favorite experiences like Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay that allow customers to transact securely and seamlessly with their favorite merchants online, in-person or on device all over the world. The future of commerce is digital and intelligent. Visa Intelligent Commerce facilitates trusted, seamless transactions through our tokenization platform, spending controls, and direct integration into the Visa network, allowing merchants to accept AI-driven commerce safely. We are is seeking a Software Engineering Director who can set a company-wide example of how to lead individual contributors as they plan work, execute daily tasks, and improve operations so that the team can produce consistent, predictable output. They are expected to demonstrate the highest standards of personal accountability, communication, integrity, and collaboration. They are data-driven in their approach to problems and decisions, are always looking for ways to improve the way things are done, and they instinctively lead making these changes happen. The ideal candidate is a player-coach -- When not coaching and mentoring the people on their team, they are rolling up their sleeves and contributing their technical expertise in furtherance of our mission. They will work closely with other members of the management team, key business stakeholders, and senior technical staff across the organization to align on and deliver our ambitious strategy.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience
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, Python, JavaScript, 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

Nice To Haves

12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD

Responsibilities

Lead an organization of highly capable software engineering professions in furtherance of a tokenized future of digital commerce.
Continually invest in building a high-performing engineering organization focusing on people, process and technology
Actively collaborate with cross functional leaders in defining product and technical roadmap.
Deliver robust and scalable software services to production by leverage cutting edge technologies to while acting as a player-coach.
Uphold the highest levels of application security standards by ensuring compliance with secure software development lifecycle best practices.
Design new or improve existing processes using pragmatic data-driven decision making.
Aligns enhancements and modifications to existing software coding standard processes and design specifications, across regions, and ensures they are aligned with current security standards
Guides the implementation of automation to improve effectiveness and efficiencies of systems and tools across regions and supports development and implementation of new automation, identifying where investment will yield the greatest efficiencies
Maintains communication with regional leadership across functions to monitor and direct the cadence of code reviews, on-call rotations, and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles
Leverages back-end technical expertise on underlying systems/platforms across the organization to lead the development systematic improvements in processes to ensure the fulfillment of customer/business objectives
Drive alignment and strategy across teams, regions, and functions, focus on long-term automation, efficiency, and global standards
Lead at the highest level, influencing broad organizational and regional strategies