Senior Engineering Manager

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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Click to Pay is an innovative product designed to make e-commerce payments — both on smartphones and computers — an even safer and more seamless experience for users. Developed by a global team of over one hundred engineers, it is shaping the future of online transactions.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead part of our engineering teams based in Poland. You will provide strategy, vision, and technical leadership to the product development organizations to ensure engineering teams are building products that use a foundational approach that prioritizes high availability and security. You will be responsible for hiring and developing top engineering talent, keeping the team highly engaged and motivated while delivering exceptional results. Your ability to work across functions and teams will allow you to ensure alignment of priorities and goals, drive results and foster the right culture and environment to achieve Engineering Excellence and Innovation. You will be responsible for working with product development, quality engineering, security engineering, enterprise operations and other internal and external technology partners to deliver products for business integration & enablement.

This position will be based in Warsaw, Poland and will report directly to our Director of Engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage GENAI for all development and testing efforts
• Recruit and hire top talent for our Java and React application.
• Focus on automation and aspiring towards zero production defects.
• Able to develop individual career development plans for team members, mentor and grow their talent.
• Able to work in a matrix organization, empowering other team members and delivering results.
• Nurture team of developers and test engineers by motivating and mentoring, influencing large cross functional teams.
• Drive technology and business vision, design, develop and evolve highly scalable and highly performant applications.
• Partner with our product management teams to develop strong and effective relationships.
• Work with other engineering and product leaders to evolve our delivery processes and drive cross-team collaboration and cooperation.
• Provide training and professional development opportunities for full-time employees.
• Own full stack quality, scalability and availability across multiple applications, features, and technology initiatives
• Point of contact for senior leadership stakeholders and cross-functional teams
• Create and implement goals and action plans to align with overall organization objectives.
• Emulate strong management and leadership principles with the capacity to engage, motivate, mentor and coach teams distributed across various geographical locations.
• Communicate and adapt presentations to various stakeholders regarding goals, planning process, project initiatives, team innovation and results.
• Implement, gather, and report team/project metrics to track execution and effectiveness.
• Act decisively and collaborate to remove impediments for the team.
• Partner with Test, Release Engineering, Performance, Security and Release Management for timely releases and resolution of any impediments
• Establish and maintain relationships with payment partners in the industry creating technology solutions providing highly scalable UI integrations.
• Demonstrate our Visa values of passion for creating leadership in everyone and creating products that excel in customer experience with security in mind.

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

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a University Degree

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 3 years of work experience leading engineering teams and people management experience
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture and operational best practices for building and maintaining highly available / scalable applications
• You have experience with consumer facing application development
• Experience with microservices architecture with Java, Spring Boot
• Develop and utilize MCP Servers along with internal and external models
• Experience with containers and cloud native solution development
• Experience with designing and building integrations using Docker, Kubernetes, Java, JavaScript, REST and SOAP web services
• Experience with translating business requirements into technical designs
• Proven track record of responsibilities as a technical lead/solutions architect
• Highly proficient with Continuous Integration / Delivery framework (CI/CD), release and change management, Sprint based agile delivery
• Ability to work with teams in multiple geographical locations and time zones
• Experience with Payment and/or Credit Card processing considered a plus

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.