Director, Software Engineering

Visa•Austin, TX

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you’ll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you. The Opportunity We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience
Strong background building and scaling distributed systems or cloud-native platforms.
Hands-on expertise in Java/Spring, microservices, APIs (REST), and modern frontend frameworks (TypeScript, Angular).
Experience with relational and NoSQL databases and messaging technologies such as Kafka or IBM MQ.
Proven track record leading engineering teams and delivering complex software products.
Proficiency with Agile methodologies and modern DevOps practices.
Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical topics for diverse audiences.

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
Experience with payments, commercial card platforms, or financial technology solutions.
Knowledge of regulatory, compliance, and security requirements in global payments.
Experience integrating generative AI into engineering workflows (OpenAI APIs, GitHub Copilot, etc.) to improve productivity and code quality.
Champion secure SDLC and quality engineering practices.
Improve engineering efficiency through automation, observability, DevOps tooling, and standardized development frameworks.

Responsibilities

Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visas internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability
Collaborate multi functionally to create design artifacts and develop best in class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings
Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads
Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions
Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology
Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities
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.