Sr Manager - SW Engineering Java/J2EE

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Payment Products Development Team (PPD) is building a new generation of digital and secured products to facilitate commerce in everyone’s digital and mobile lives. Our focus is to build intuitive features that expose profound new value for our customers, merchants and developers.

As a Senior Manager in Software Engineering, you will be part of Payment Products Development Team and provide hands-on leadership to the team to build a new generation of digital and secured products in an agile development environment by hiring and building a world-class team of engineers, defining, executing and delivering functional and non-functional features at scale quickly and promoting a culture of cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence. 

This position is based in Bangalore and will report to the Director of Software Engineering.

You’re an Individual. We’re the team for you. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays.

Responsibilities:

·       Managing a team of 8-12 (made up of both full-time employees and contractors) experienced professionals who exercise latitude and independence in assignments

·       Deliver the product with moderately complex technical interdependencies with cross geographical teams.

·       Provide technical leadership to development team by participating in design, performing design & code reviews and defect triaging.

·       Building a culture of engineering excellence (quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.)

·       Partnering with product managers in developing short term strategy and roadmap that align with business goals for the initiatives that you would be directly involved in.

·       Partnering with remote teams to ensure alignment across product development.

·       Encourage & ensure the team is utilize GenAI tools to enhance software development processes, including code generation, optimization, and testing.

·       Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI solutions into existing systems and workflows.

·       Manage the prioritizations and delivery of enhancements and bug fixes on platform.

·       Provide oversight for managed services work happening in your area.

·       Hire, retain and grow a high-performing team of software engineers.

·       Mentoring and coaching both experienced and new college grads.

·       Invest in the career development of direct reports.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
•12+ years of relevant work experience with Bachelors’ degree OR 10+ years
with Masters’ degree OR Ph.D with 8+years, with at least 2 years’ experience in
leadership role.

Preferred Qualifications
•Bachelors/Masters’ degree in Computer Science Engineering or other related
fields with a minimum of 12+ years of experience in Application
development/engineering with at least 2 years of managerial experience.
•Proficient in Java/J2EE/REST technologies and frameworks like
Spring/SpringBoot, Sprint MVC, JPA, Hibernate etc.,
•Experience in API Development for producers and consumers adhering to all
standards for security and reliability.
•Experience in database such as Oracle, MYSQL, PostgreSQL and any of the
NOSQL
•Experience in Microservice architecture, Containers Orchestration (Kubernetes,
Docker etc.,)
•Strong understanding of generative AI models and tools, such as GPT, Llama,
and Anthropic etc., and using MCP (Model Context Protocol)
•Familiarity with GenAI tools such as GitHub copilot, chatGPT, Claude, Copilot
for Microsoft 365, and other relevant platforms
•Experience with system design and tech stack upgrade to build highly available,
secure, maintainable, performing, and scalable applications.
•Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
•Familiarity with Caching, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and other related
technologies
•Experience in software configuration management with tools development,
automation (GIT, Maven, Artifactory, Jenkins, CI/CD etc.,)
•Experience in logging tools such as Splunk, Humio, etc., for Monitoring and
Issue triage
•Experience in driving the production/customer reported issues to closure.
•Proven experience delivering highly scalable and available production systems.
•Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and effective communication skills (both
written and verbal)
•Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
•Strong business acumen, ability to grasp big picture and explain to team in
simple terms.
•Track record of hiring and managing world-class software engineers.
•Experience with Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle
principles.
•Experience working with cross-functional, cross-geo location with common
objective as OneTeam.
•Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity.
•Experience developing & leading teams as part of Agile/Scrum team.
•Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the
proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and
timeliness of deliverables.
•Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented.

Additional Information

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.