Lead Software Engineer

Visa•Foster City, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Lead Software Engineer on the Acceptance Solutions technology team, you will play a crucial role in empowering our most valuable asset—our engineers—to deliver exceptional features with the highest quality. You will collaborate with colleagues who will support, challenge, and inspire you every day. You will be part of teams working on multiple projects, ranging from full-stack development of real-time transactional services and container-based services to building a highly functional, secure, scalable, and resilient platform. In this role, you will provide technological leadership, serving as the technical expert on strategic projects. You will guide the delivery of initiatives aligned with our business strategy, focusing on innovative payment acceptance and integrated commerce management. You will maintain an awareness of dependencies between projects and the overall delivery vision, while ensuring engineering excellence and reliability. Additionally, you will develop strategies for your teams to architect, design, and deliver the next wave of enterprise FinTech innovation. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience
Proven ability to define needs, develop plans, coordinate resources and implement action plans.
Demonstrated ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously & to resolve scheduling & other conflicts in order to meet all deadlines.
Thorough understanding of Container based architecture for Cloud such as Docker or Kubernetes.
Experience in cloud migration and multi cloud strategy.
Experience in building and establishing elastic scalability architectural patterns for web applications.
Sound understanding of Service and IT operations management, and DevOps model, good knowledge of Deployment, Capacity Planning.
Strong understanding of Enterprise Integration using web services, REST
Understand the Security requirements and standards, and contemporary trends in Security risks as well as technologies.
Experience in security domain with secure protocol with authentication, authorization and building secure gateway.
Experience with a variety of development methodologies and mature understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each.
Superior verbal, written & interpersonal communication skills with both technical & non-technical audiences.
Experience in coaching engineers both on technical and career development.
Excellent team player, with strong collaboration skills and ability to influence cross-functional team for results.
Focus on building an efficient and collaborative team environment.
Experience in commercial software development on Unix/Linux environment.
Experience in a technical leadership role
Understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and scalable applications.
You have expertise of Core Java, JEE technologies, REST and container based technologies.
You have experience in consumer facing application development experience.
Proven track record of responsibilities as a technical lead.
Proven track record of developing and architecting Secure API gateway solution with dynamic set of security standards.
You have experience architecting solutions with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in mind.
You have amazing work ethics that will help us all work extremely well together
You have the passion to understanding people and to always striving to improve our products and services.

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 experience with Agile methods is a plus.

Responsibilities

Provide technological leadership, serving as the technical expert on strategic projects.
Guide the delivery of initiatives aligned with our business strategy, focusing on innovative payment acceptance and integrated commerce management.
Maintain an awareness of dependencies between projects and the overall delivery vision, while ensuring engineering excellence and reliability.
Develop strategies for your teams to architect, design, and deliver the next wave of enterprise FinTech innovation.