Lead Software Engineer

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: 

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, leading the Payment Processing division in the Acceptance Solutions organisation, you will be the driving force behind technological innovation and project execution. You'll spearhead the release strategy, ensuring that every delivery aligns seamlessly with our business strategy, focusing particularly on innovative payment acceptance and integrated commerce management. Setting the gold standard for engineering excellence, your role will be pivotal in architecting, designing, and launching the next generation of enterprise FinTech innovation. Your technical expertise will be the guiding light, illuminating the path to groundbreaking advancements in our field.

Essential Functions:

• Collaborates with Solution or Enterprise Architects to translate architecture into a delivered solution that realizes the vision and purpose.

• Effectively translates functional and non- functional requirements into an engineered solution.

• Provides the technical guidance the project needs to meet the wider goals of the org strategy.

• To be successful in the role, you will be required to have deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals, micro-services, monolithic applications and its related technologies, multi-tiered architecture and specific experience in designing complex solutions for mission critical, high availability platforms.

• Leads and supports both product and technical discussions about how to apply existing and/or new technology in support of the business.

• Leverage AI/ML technologies in bringing productivity across the SDLC phases and develop innovative business solutions and products.

• In addition to the technical skill set and passion for learning new technologies, the candidate will be a self-starter, results-driven, and equipped with excellent verbal and written communication skills to interface with leadership within Visa , external teams & stakeholders.

• Coach/Mentor others through informal sessions such as brown bags and tech talks.

• Understands how a project fits into the overall technology roadmap and communicate to the team to help establish buy-in and ownership.

• Takes ownership and/or leads the engineering responsibility for multiple components in a project.

• Provides consultative work throughout the project lifecycle to ensure vision and goal of project is realized through delivery.

• Is able to coordinate engineering activities across the delivery of the project.

• Works with engineers to ensure they are delivering quality and efficiently against project requirements

• Successful candidate will have a flair for out-of-box thinking and be passionate about mentoring and coaching junior software engineers. Candidate should also have passion for engineering excellence.

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