Sr. Manager. Software Engineering-2

Visa•Austin, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

VCS Platform & Acceptance is part of the Visa Commercial Solutions technology organization. The team is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing Virtual Cards, payables, and acceptance commercial platforms that drive incremental revenue and support the continued growth of Commercial B2B product lines. We are looking for versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As part of a multi-functional development team, you will help invent, design, build, test, and support software products that serve a truly global customer base. While building innovative payment technology, you will help shape the digital future of commercial money movement. As a Software Engineer - Senior Consultant Level, you will play a key role in the team’s ongoing transformation by leading the design and delivery of highly scalable, secure, reliable, resilient, and user-friendly applications. You will provide senior technical leadership across architecture, engineering standards, implementation quality, and platform evolution. This role demands deep expertise in API platforms, backend services, microservices, event-driven systems, and enterprise-grade scalable application architecture. A GenAI-first attitude is mandatory. You are expected to be a model user of GenAI, LLMs, coding copilots, and agentic engineering approaches, and to help shape how engineering teams use these capabilities to improve software quality, speed, innovation, and operational excellence.

Requirements

8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.
Deep expertise in backend engineering using REST APIs, gRPC, J2EE, JDBC, JMS
Extensive hands-on experience with Spring, Spring Batch, Spring Boot, WebFlux, and Vert.x
Experience with using GenAI, copilots, and agentic software for improving agility, quality, and security in SDLC.
Demonstrated leadership in applying a GenAI-first mindset across engineering practices
Strong experience designing and delivering backend services, microservices, and event-driven systems
Strong experience building high-performance, scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant applications
Hands-on experience with database technologies such as MySQL, DB2, Oracle
Strong ability to understand and write simple and complex SQL
Strong experience with Agile development incorporating CI/CD using GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, JUnit
Strong understanding of the full software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release
Strong understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and scalable applications
Experience in a technical leadership role
Strong oral and written communication skills
Strong interpersonal, analytical, and troubleshooting skills
Ability to multitask and manage competing priorities with minimal direction
Must work well within a fast-paced, high-performance organization
Mandatory strong experience with GenAI / LLM-driven software engineering
Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture, and development of shared services and frameworks including microservices, container technologies, caching, API gateway, and security
Working experience with Kafka, Redis, or NoSQL datastores
Continuous Delivery and DevOps experience including infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing, and security implementation
Proven track record in a technical lead role producing innovative and simple solutions to complex problems
Strong passion for technology and solving large-scale complex business problems
A true GenAI-first leadership mindset, using AI and agentic workflows to elevate team practices and engineering outcomes
Expert-level backend engineering capability across REST APIs, gRPC, J2EE, JDBC, JMS
Deep command of Spring, Spring Batch, Spring Boot, WebFlux, and Vert.x
Strong mastery of OOP concepts and design patterns
Deep expertise in API development, backend services, microservices, and event-driven architecture
Strong architectural and operational understanding of highly available, scalable, performant, and reliable systems
Deep CI/CD, automation, and DevOps understanding
Strong database and SQL expertise
Ability to lead architecture, mentor engineers, and influence technical direction
Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and business stakeholders
Curiosity, creativity, and ownership in solving complex business problems

Responsibilities

Design, document, and implement new systems, enhancements, and modifications to existing software aligned with design specifications, security standards, and engineering best practices
Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of services and application stacks
Use Gen AI for day-to-day activities
Lead the architecture and implementation of REST APIs, gRPC services, backend platforms, microservices, and event-driven systems
Design, implement, and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant web-based applications
Deliver software that conforms to high standards of security, quality, performance, resiliency, and compliance
Interact with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality products and services that meet business requirements
Independently create multiple design artifacts and present designs to team members and stakeholders
Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms
Collaborate with Technical Product Managers to break down solutions into smaller achievable tasks
Support test engineers and operations teams in troubleshooting, defect research, and issue root cause analysis
Contribute to efficient development process pipelines through best-in-class CI/CD tools
Identify opportunities for product innovation and improvements to standards, processes, and best practices
Mentor junior developers to ensure timely delivery of quality code
Communicate status, issues, and risks effectively and timely
Take responsibility across SDLC roles including development, testing, CI/CD automation, and ensuring production stability