Director, Software Engineering

Visa • Bellevue, WA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a Director of Software Engineering who combines strategic leadership with strong technical depth. This role leads multiple engineering teams while maintaining hands-on involvement in architecture decisions, technical reviews, and proof-of-concepts. You will drive engineering excellence, influence technology strategy, and ensure delivery of scalable, secure solutions that impact millions globally.
Essential Functions:
Lead and inspire engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and accountability
Guide architecture decisions, review critical components, and contribute to proof-of-concepts
Collaborate with Product and Architecture leaders to define technology roadmaps
Establish processes for code quality, automation, and operational excellence
Hire, mentor, and retain top engineering talent
Champion adoption of emerging technologies (AI/ML, GenAI, cloud-native architectures)
Drive measurable improvements in engineering efficiency and system performance
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience
• Strategic leadership with a proven ability to manage multiple teams and large-scale programs
• Deep technical expertise in modern architectures (microservices, cloud-native), security engineering, and API platforms
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies and software development lifecycle principles
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive organizational change
• Experience balancing hands-on technical involvement with leadership responsibilities
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills

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
• Solid understanding of Large Language Models, Generative AI systems and applications.
• Background in developing and deploying AIML platforms and applications in on premises and public cloud infrastructure.
• Have prior hands-on experience using languages such as Python, Go, Java, Python, Rust. Strong on coding and code reviews.
• Experience in leading teams that have built full stack applications from the ground-up using distributed high performance and scalable technologies such as K8s, Docker, Ray, Airflow, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka and so on.
• Experience in leading teams that have built cloud platform solutions using AWS, Azure and GCP for high performance real time AIML applications
• Experience in DevSecOps world - Github/Git, CI/CD Pipelines, Jenkins, Ansible, Shell Scripts, Security Tools, Observability, Alerting, IaC etc.
• Payments industry experience is a plus

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and accountability
• Guide architecture decisions, review critical components, and contribute to proof-of-concepts
• Collaborate with Product and Architecture leaders to define technology roadmaps
• Establish processes for code quality, automation, and operational excellence
• Hire, mentor, and retain top engineering talent
• Champion adoption of emerging technologies (AI/ML, GenAI, cloud-native architectures)
• Drive measurable improvements in engineering efficiency and system performance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director