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Progress starts with you.\nJob Description\nRole Summary:\nThe Sr. Manager; Software Engineering leads a team responsible for reviewing business requirements and developing functional and technical design documentation. This role oversees the design and implementation of testing procedures for APIs, abstractions, and integration patterns to address distributed computing challenges, including end-to-end and integration testing. The Sr. Manager participates in design reviews, providing input on requirements, product designs, schedules, and potential issues, and works across the team to ensure productivity, predictability, and delivery of high-quality results.\nThe position includes accountability for code review and the team’s development and testing activities, as well as participation in proof of concepts and technical evaluations of new technologies. The Sr. Manager is expected to foster a collaborative environment, ensuring the team meets business needs and delivers robust solutions.\nAll roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) and agentic development to support everyday work.\nEssential Functions:\nPeople Leadership: Direct, mentor, and build a high-performing team of 8+ software engineers. Drive career development, performance management, regular 1:1s, and goal setting.\nTeam Execution & Delivery: Oversee end-to-end application development deliverables including unit design, coding, code reviews, testing, and release management.\nResource & Capacity Planning: Manage team workload, sprint planning, hiring, onboarding, and resource allocation to meet project timelines and deliverables.\nTechnical & Strategic Guidance: Collaborate with technical leads, architects, and product managers to define solution approaches, assess scope, and evaluate technical feasibility.\nAgile Leadership: Drive agile development workflows utilizing modern open-source, CI/CD, and DevOps tools to streamline continuous integration and delivery pipelines.\nCross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with global cross-functional teams, including product management, QA, security, and operations, to resolve blockers and ensure aligned delivery.\nCompliance & Quality: Ensure development adheres to Visa Development Management Methodology, Technical Security Requirements, and Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) protocols.\nDocumentation & Process Improvement: Maintain clear software, operational, and architectural documentation while continually improving engineering practices and procedures.\nVisa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.\nQualifications\nBasic Qualifications:\n8+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.\nExperience building and supporting large-scale, high-performance, mission-critical applications.\nStrong hands-on software engineering experience, including coding, code reviews, and technical design.\nProven ability to lead technical initiatives and drive architecture decisions.\nExperience with cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, APIs, and microservices.\nExperience supporting Tier-0 or highly available production systems.\nAbility to mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across engineering teams.\nStrong understanding of software engineering best practices, including CI/CD, testing, observability, and operational excellence\nPreferred Qualifications:\n9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD.\n3+ years of direct people-management experience preferred; candidates who have led teams through technical influence, matrix leadership, or technical leadership without direct authority will also be considered..\nDemonstrated experience leading software engineering teams, including delivery management, technical oversight, performance accountability, and talent development.\nExperience translating business and product requirements into scalable technical solutions, architecture decisions, delivery plans, and technical documentation.\nProven ability to lead the design, development, testing, integration, deployment, and production support of complex, mission-critical applications.\nStrong experience overseeing API platforms, distributed systems, microservices, and enterprise integration patterns.\nExperience leading architecture and design reviews, evaluating technical tradeoffs, and ensuring solutions meet requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.\nExperience establishing engineering standards and maintaining accountability for code quality, testing, secure development, release readiness, and production stability.\nProven ability to manage delivery risks, dependencies, capacity, and priorities across multiple teams and cross-functional stakeholders.\nExperience evaluating emerging technologies, leading proofs of concept, and guiding their adoption based on business value, technical feasibility, risk, and operational readiness.\nExperience leading globally distributed engineering teams and collaborating across Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, Infrastructure, QA, and Operations.\nStrong understanding of distributed computing, cloud-native architecture, microservices, event-driven systems, and multi-region deployments.\nExperience building or operating large-scale, mission-critical systems on Google Cloud using technologies such as GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, or Dataflow.\nDemonstrated success delivering secure, resilient, and high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities and complex dependencies.\nExperience applying CI/CD, DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, observability, SRE, capacity planning, incident management, and disaster-recovery practices.\nAbility to communicate technical strategy, architecture decisions, delivery risks, and recommendations clearly to engineering teams, cross-functional partners, and senior leadership.\nExperience integrating emerging technologies, including AI-assisted engineering capabilities, into software development practices while maintaining appropriate security, quality, and governance controls.\n\nInformation for US Applicants\nFor roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $192,100.00 to $ 307,800.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity.Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.Work Hours\nVaries upon the needs of the department.\nTravel Requirements\nThis position requires travel 5-10% of the time.\nMental/Physical Requirements\nThis position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.\nVisa is an EEO Employer\nQualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protect veteran status. 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