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.
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Job Description
The Acceptance Solutions Payer Interface team is looking for a software engineering leader for the Kernel in the Cloud platform. You will drive team engagement and productivity, and champion quality and security in the project. You will build relationship with other organizations including Product, Architecture and Operations to ensuring delivery and quality goals are met. Candidates for this role will be a well-rounded technology leader who have good understanding on the current trends and practices in broad technology and software engineering space.
The role is a self-organized technology leader with in-depth understanding of organizational management principles, software development life cycles, and software engineering practices. Your strong management skills, relationship building ability, leadership in software engineering practices, and strong desire to collaborate with others are all required to make this role successful.
Major Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Inspire, lead and manage a team of world class software engineers who are creating innovative solution that will transform how consumers pay.
• Lead the team in using generative AI to develop new solutions.
• Collaborate with Software Engineering, Operations and Product Management to develop tools and processes to accelerate high quality software development.
• Evangelize developer productivity practices, solutions and systems across teams and drive for adoption.
• Drive organizational changes targeting in improving quality, efficiency and productivity.
• Drive resolutions for production issues collaborating with operations support and application support teams.
• Be ready to play an active Scrum Master role for the team
• Lead meetings and discussions with Product and Architecture teams
• Be passionate about generative AI technologies and understand how to align with Visa's strategy

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 5 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 8 years of relevant work experience
Preferred Qualifications
- 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
-2 years of experience with engineering leadership & management roles
-Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
-Have a track record of delivering results while dealing with ambiguity and
organizational complexity. Demonstrate experience in managing both product
development and quality engineering teams.
-Demonstrate the ability in inspiring, motivating, growing the team to achieve
high team engagement, efficiency, and quality.
-Experience working on product development collaborating with multiple teams that have different development models, release cycles, and developer needs.
-In-depth understanding of agile principles. Demonstrate expertise in running
Agile teams in an enterprise setting.
-Technology savvy. Have broad understanding on current technology trends and must able to guide and advise development team on directions in technology, architecture and software engineering practices.
-Strong communication skills. Be able to influence executive teams and other
organizations on decisions. Proven collaboration skills with other groups.
-Self-motivated with strong drive for excellence.
-Must have exposure to some or all of the following technologies: Java, SQL,
Security, Messaging. Mobile (iOS/Android) experience a plus.
-Knowledge of tools such as Kafka, Kubernetes or Docker
-Familiarity with common application security vulnerabilities and how to
overcome them (OWASP) is a plus.
-Experience in leading development teams in the payments industry is a strong plus.
Additional Information
Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements: This 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.
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.
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.
U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 124,700.00 to 180,700.00 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.