Sr. Manager - (11+ to 14 Yrs , Java Backend)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 22, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 18, 2026. Visa scores A on the Alion truth index.
About Us
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.
Job Description
Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.
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.
The Work itself:
- Lead engineering delivery across multiple platforms and features, including API Gateway, API Onboarding, MCP Gateway, and related systems.
- Design and guide development of scalable, secure, reusable, and high-quality solutions serving global users and diverse customers.
- Drive innovation across APIs, platforms, and full-stack applications, while leveraging modern technologies and AI-assisted engineering tools.
- Collaborate across product, engineering, test, and DevOps teams to deliver new capabilities, improve quality, and mentor talent across the organization.
Essential Functions / Requirements for the Position:
- Manage multiple engineering initiatives and feature tracks, partnering with stakeholders to gather, refine, prioritize, and deliver requirements end-to-end.
- Provide strong architecture and design leadership, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, well-integrated, and aligned with engineering best practices.
- Lead teams building backend services, APIs, and full-stack applications, with the ability to balance speed, quality, security, and reusability.
- Bring hands-on understanding of modern software development and coding agents/tools such as Claude Code, Copilot, or Codex, with understanding of MCP and Agent-to-Agent communication protocols being desirable.
- Work effectively across Product, Test, DevOps, and Agile/Scrum teams, while driving technical clarity, execution excellence, and strong documentation practices.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.Qualifications
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree inComputer Science, Engineering, or related field.
8+ yearsof software engineering experience, withseveral years in engineering management / people leadership.
Proven experience leading teams deliveringscalable APIs, platforms, and full-stack applications.
Strong understanding ofsystem architecture, design patterns, distributed systems, scalability, and security.
Hands-on experience withAI coding tools/agents such as Claude Code, Copilot-Codex.
Strong cross-functional leadership skills with experience partnering acrossProduct, Test, DevOps, and Agile/Scrum teams.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and execution skills.
The Skills You Bring:
Technical Leadership: Strong ability to lead teams through design decisions, technical trade-offs, and delivery across multiple platforms.
Engineering Depth: Solid foundation in software development, APIs, scalable services, and modern web application architecture.
Innovation & Learning Agility: Curious, adaptable, and comfortable adopting new technologies, tools, and modern engineering practices.
Collaboration: Proven ability to work cross-functionally and build strong partnerships across distributed teams.
Visa is an EEO Employer
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.