Sr. Director, Software Engineering at Visa

Austin, Texas, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

14 May, 26

Salary

360800.0

Posted On

13 Feb, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Software Engineering, Technology Leadership, Product Delivery, Web Applications, Mobile Applications, SDK Applications, Scalability, Security, Accessibility, Agile Delivery, Frontend Integrations, Backend Integrations, High-Volume Transaction Systems, AI, Platform Transformation, Mentorship

Industry

IT Services and IT Consulting

Description

Company Description Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you. Job Description We are seeking a Sr. Director of Software Engineering who's a proven technology leader with a strong track record of delivering large-scale, complex products and services by influencing across diverse, global engineering teams and partnering closely with Product and Program stakeholders. This role owns the vision, strategy, and execution of web, mobile, and SDK applications across the portfolio. You will lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and accessible solutions, partnering with Product, Design, and Backend teams to create seamless, high-quality user experiences. You will drive rapid, high-quality feature delivery at scale while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence. Success requires balancing business priorities with operational rigor, security, privacy, and regulatory compliance. The ideal candidate embraces emerging technologies—especially AI—to accelerate internal productivity and fuel product innovation. You will lead multiple teams, align technology to business outcomes, and transform digital offerings through AI-powered enhancements and new solutions for banking and fintech partners. Experience in agile delivery, complex frontend/backend integrations, and high-volume transaction systems—ideally within payments—is strongly preferred. This leader thrives in dynamic environments, drives platform transformation, and identifies new revenue opportunities through technology and AI advancement. Essential Functions Responsible for the overall development life cycle with a focus on full system development and ownership. Deliver products with complex technical interdependencies collaborating with cross geographical development and product teams. Collaborate with Product Office, Operations & Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Client Support and other Product Development teams in developing complete solutions. Build a culture of engineering excellence (quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.) across your own teams and the entire organization. Leverage GenAI to continually enhance our delivery methods and enhance or create products that disrupt the marketplace. Partner with product owners in developing a strategy and roadmap that align with business goals. Manage technical debt and costs within your product and organization budgets. Influence adoption of best engineering practices, automations of software development, testing and deployment processes. Manage the prioritization and delivery of enhancements and ongoing maintenance activities for multiple services. Be responsible for the incident management, change, and problem management. Hire, retain and grow high-performing and diverse global engineering teams. Invest in the career development of your employees with a strong focus on mentorship and training. Lead with a strong client focus mindset across organizations. Handle routine daily activities such as coordination, coaching, mentoring, recruiting, budgeting, planning, delivery, quality, partner relationships, performance metrics, operations, efficiency, service level management, etc. Recruit and manage an engineering team dedicated to the implementation of the technology organization strategy. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager. This position does not provide relocation assistance or immigration sponsorship, now or in the future. Qualifications Basic Qualifications: 12+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience Preferred Qualifications: 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience Proven experience managing software development teams delivering highly available enterprise level applications with fantastic quality. Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way. Proven track record of coordinating multiple product and technical teams by removing roadblocks and solving complex problems collaboratively. Strong at technical goal setting for a project with actionable success metrics. Experience using AI to increase developer productivity and to launch AI-based new product offerings. Experience with measuring a service from user experience perspective, setting, and tracking to SLAs and KPIs. Ability to represent technical and business issues and solutions to multiple levels internally and externally to support organizational plans. Ability to work in a complex organization to determine business and customer needs, providing the best solution to meet those needs. Experience with Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle principles. Ability to manage multiple competing top priorities in a fast-paced environment. Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. Payment industry experience 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 this position is 206,100.00 to 360,800.00 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. Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Responsibilities

This role is responsible for the overall development lifecycle, focusing on full system development and ownership, delivering products with complex technical interdependencies across global teams. The director will build a culture of engineering excellence, leverage Generative AI for enhancement, and partner with product owners on strategy and roadmap alignment.