Director (14 - 18 years of experience in Java full stack technologies, Microservices, Angular, Spring boot)

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

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.   

Responsibilities

You will be part of the Finance Tech - Financial Planning & Analysis team to help design, develop, and enhance financial applications in an agile development environment. You will be leading a team performing full stack development in systems which are highly performing secure and scalable real time and batching systems. You will be closely with the Product Owners and Agile Delivery Managers, in order to craft the best solutions.

Team/People:

• Grows team members and builds a high-performing team.
• Spends time recruiting and organizing activities that increase retention.
• Creates an environment of psychological safety, enabling team members to thrive.
• Represents the team in the wider engineering and tech organization.
• A key champion of our culture    

Technical:

• Drives the team to decide how to implement solutions. Can break ties and has the last word on technical matters.
• Has a broad set of expertise and experience on various technical matters.
• Spend time driving technical discussions and decisions and sometimes writing code.
• Actively guide architecture, tool choices and internal technical quality and best practices  
• Ensures support and operations for services in production with aid of their team.

• Driving Technical Excellence.

Process:

• Continually tunes the team software process to deliver a sustainable and seamless flow of value.
• Managing productivity of the engineers in the team  
• Navigates and overcomes organizational processes and structures.
• Communicates, reports to, and aligns with stakeholders.
• Ensure team ceremonies run smoothly, regularly, and efficiently.

We are looking for leaders who are there for the team, helping them unlock their potential and grow not just as a team but also as individuals with the following qualifications.

·       Experience with leading a team of 10+ members made up of both full-time employees and contractors.

• Technical leadership of development teams by participating in design and design reviews.
• Partnership with product owners in developing a strategy and roadmap that aligns with business goals.
• Partnership with remote teams to ensure alignment across product development.
• Experience in hiring, retaining, and growing a high-performing team of software engineers.
• Experience in career development of direct reports.
• Proven ability to communicate equally effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in building a culture of engineering excellence (quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.). Proven delivery of well-tested, scalable, fault-tolerant, and performant solutions.
• Expertise in working full stack web application system design and development. Including high-availability, high-scalability, microservices, CI/CD, testing automation and observability.
• Reduction of technical debt and cost of operations/support.
• Experience in working with modern programming languages like Java, Kotlin, or Python with sufficient knowledge on Front end technologies such as Angular or React.
• Record of delivery despite complex technical interdependencies with cross geographical teams.
• Record of working with Agile process and principles.
• Experience of working in a DevOps environment.
• Experience of upholding incident management, change management and problem management processes.

Essential Functions

• Design, implement and ship highly scalable distributed components using functional programming paradigm using JAVA full stack technologies including but not limited to Angular, Java, Spring boot, Mysql etc.
• A self-starter who takes accountability for getting things done.
• Passionate about growing others while growing yourself. An interest in continuous improvement and helping engineers to feel part of something bigger.
• Pragmatism in decision making and ability to get buy-in for ideas and getting them done.
• Exceptional structure and attention to detail.
• Comfortably challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work.
• Great written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working in a scale-up or growth environment and as part of a wider team.

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or related technical field required. Master’s Degree or other advanced degree preferred.
• 14+ years of relevant experience with 4-6 years’ experience leading teams, preferably within Fintech/Finance.
• Expertise with the Java 8 platform or higher.
• Experience in building complex systems with modern architectures and practices.
• Including high-availability, high-scalability, microservices. Specifically using HTTP, REST and other JAVA full stack technologies including but not limited to Angular, Spring boot, MySQL etc.
• Extensive experience of working in a DevOps environment.
• Experience with Relational and NoSQL database technologies.
• Proven experience delivering highly scalable and available production systems.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and communication/articulation 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.
• Proven ability to communicate equally effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle principles.
• Ability to manage multiple competing top priorities in a fast-paced environment.

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.