Sr. Director - Software Engineering (Java, GenAI, Payment Risk, Cloud, NoSQL - 18+ years' exp)
Visa · Posted Nov 2
Digital payment technology platform and global payment card services corporation
Bengaluru, IndiaFull-timeOnsiteDirector/Executive18+ years₹1.5Cr–₹2.5Cr yearly<25 applicants
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About the role
Visa is a payments technology company facilitating transactions across more than 200 countries and territories. Within Visa Value Added Services, the Risk and Security Solutions organization builds acceptance, issuing, and risk and security products for merchants, acquirers, issuers, and partners. This Senior Director of Software Engineering role leads engineering for key risk and security capabilities, owning technical strategy and hands-on delivery of high-scale distributed systems.
What you will do
- Own the technical architecture, design, implementation, and delivery of customer-facing Risk & Security products and platform capabilities.
- Translate product strategy into scalable, secure, resilient, and operable distributed systems.
- Actively participate in code, design and architecture reviews, root-cause analysis, and contribute code when needed to unblock teams or accelerate critical initiatives.
- Establish and enforce engineering standards for agentic development lifecycle, context engineering, code quality evals, performance, scalability, availability, observability, maintainability, and secure software delivery.
- Partner with Product Management, Cybersecurity, SRE/Operations to deliver solutions that maximize customer value, platform health, and execution predictability.
- Build and execute technology roadmaps that balance business priorities, engineering sustainability, technical debt reduction, and operational efficiency.
- Drive adoption of engineering best practices including CI/CD, test automation and telemetry.
- Communicate technical strategy, execution status, key tradeoffs, risks, and architectural decisions clearly to senior leadership.
- Attract, retain and grow high-performing engineering talent.
- Enable technical and process innovation through thought leadership and influence.
- Understand current and future trends within the payments industry.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Led a team of 40+ made up of full-time employees, contractors and AI agents.
- Proven hands-on technical leadership by actively participating in code and design reviews.
- Built a culture of engineering excellence (context engineering, code quality evals, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.)
- Effectively managed complex technical interdependencies across geographical teams.
- Partnered with product management in developing a strategy and roadmap that align with business and engineering goals.
- Partnered with remote teams to ensure alignment across product development. Bring a global mindset.
- Demonstrated ability to hire, coach, retain, and develop high-performing engineers and engineering leaders while raising the overall technical bar of the organization.
- Enabled innovation through thought leadership and influence.
- Deep expertise in building and operating high-scale distributed systems with demanding requirements for latency, throughput, resilience, security, and availability.
- Strong architectural judgment across service decomposition, API design, asynchronous messaging, data consistency, caching, failure isolation, and recovery strategies.
- Excellent execution leadership with the ability to align teams, prioritize effectively, manage risk, and deliver against commitments in ambiguous or high-pressure environments.
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills with the ability to influence Product, Operations, and senior stakeholders through technical credibility and data-driven communication.
- 18+ years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree or with an Advanced degree
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Agentic development and effective use of AI models, tools and agents.
- Significant experience leading the design and delivery of complex, enterprise-scale distributed systems in domains with high transaction volume, integration complexity, and stringent non-functional requirements.
- Strong hands-on engineering background in Java, Go, Rust, JavaScript etc. and modern backend development frameworks, with experience in concurrent or reactive architectures such as Vertx, or similar.
- Proven experience building microservices and service-based platforms using HTTP, REST, gRPC JSON, and modern service contract/interface design patterns.
- Strong working knowledge of distributed web architecture, including service discovery, containerized deployment models, distributed caching, event streaming, NoSQL, and RDBMS technologies.
- Experience designing and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable, and observable services in production environments.
- Strong understanding of event-driven architecture, enterprise integration patterns, asynchronous processing, and API-based system interoperability.
- Experience with DevOps and modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, deployment automation, release orchestration, and capacity/performance planning.
- Strong understanding of application and platform security, including secure design, secure coding, access control, threat awareness, and contemporary security risks and controls.
- Experience with Agile engineering practices, technical governance, roadmap planning, dependency management, and execution in globally distributed organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to identify, communicate, and mitigate technical, operational, and delivery risk across a portfolio of products or multiple engineering teams.
- Strong analytical, architectural, and organizational leadership skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership and drive decisions through clarity, technical depth, and disciplined execution.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Visa
Visa Inc. is a multinational payment card services corporation that facilitates electronic funds transfers worldwide. The company empowers global commerce through its secure digital payment network, connecting consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 34100 employees
- Founded
- 1958-09-18
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $17.9B raised
Bank of AmericaInstitutional Investors
- 2008-03-19IPO$17.9B
Leadership
RM
Ryan McInerney
Chief Executive Officer
CS
Chris Suh
Chief Financial Officer
JF
Jack Forestell
Chief Product and Strategy Officer
OJ
Oliver Jenkyn
Group President, Global Markets
KM
Kelly Mahon Tullier
Vice Chair, Chief People and Corporate Affairs Officer
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