Senior Software Engineer (Team Lead)

Salary: $192,100 - 307,800 per year Requirements:

• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a bachelors degree, or 11+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience building and supporting large-scale, high-performance, mission-critical applications.
• Strong hands-on software engineering background, including coding, code reviews, and technical design.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and make architecture decisions.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, APIs, and microservices.
• Experience supporting Tier-0 or other highly available production systems.
• Ability to mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of software engineering practices, including CI/CD, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
• Preferred: 9+ years of relevant experience with a bachelors degree, 7+ years with an advanced degree, or 3+ years with a PhD.
• Preferred: 3+ years of direct people-management experience; candidates with technical influence, matrix leadership, or technical leadership experience may also be considered.
• Demonstrated experience leading software engineering teams, including delivery, technical oversight, performance accountability, and talent development.
• Ability to translate business and product requirements into scalable technical solutions, architecture decisions, delivery plans, and technical documentation.
• Experience leading design, development, testing, integration, deployment, and production support for complex, mission-critical applications.
• Strong experience overseeing API platforms, distributed systems, microservices, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience leading architecture and design reviews, assessing technical tradeoffs, and ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Experience setting engineering standards and maintaining accountability for code quality, testing, secure development, release readiness, and production stability.
• Ability to manage delivery risks, dependencies, capacity, and priorities across teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience evaluating emerging technologies, leading proofs of concept, and guiding adoption based on business value, feasibility, risk, and operational readiness.
• Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams and collaborating across Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, Infrastructure, QA, and Operations.
• Strong understanding of distributed computing, cloud-native architecture, microservices, event-driven systems, and multi-region deployments.
• Experience building or operating large-scale, mission-critical systems on Google Cloud, using technologies such as GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, or Dataflow.
• Track record of delivering secure, resilient, high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities and complex dependencies.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, infrastructure as code, observability, SRE, capacity planning, incident management, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical strategy, architecture decisions, delivery risks, and recommendations to engineering teams, partners, and senior leaders.
• Experience incorporating AI-assisted engineering into software development while maintaining security, quality, and governance controls.
• Digital fluency, including the ability to use emerging technologies such as generative AI tools and agentic development in everyday work.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of 8+ software engineers through career development, performance management, regular one-to-ones, and goal setting.
• Guide the team in reviewing business requirements and producing functional and technical design documentation.
• Oversee application development from unit design and coding through code review, testing, and release management.
• Plan team capacity and workload, lead sprint planning, support hiring and onboarding, and allocate resources to meet delivery commitments.
• Partner with technical leads, architects, and product managers to define solution approaches, assess scope, and evaluate feasibility.
• Lead agile workflows and use modern open-source, CI/CD, and DevOps tools to improve continuous integration and delivery.
• Work with global product, QA, security, and operations teams to resolve blockers and coordinate delivery.
• Ensure development complies with Visas development methodology, technical security requirements, and secure software development lifecycle practices.
• Maintain software, operational, and architectural documentation and continually improve engineering processes.
• Oversee the design and implementation of testing for APIs, abstractions, and integration patterns, including end-to-end and integration testing for distributed systems.
• Participate in design reviews and provide input on requirements, product designs, schedules, and potential issues.
• Be accountable for code reviews and the teams development and testing activities, and contribute to proofs of concept and technical evaluations of new technologies.
• Foster a collaborative team environment that meets business needs and delivers robust, high-quality solutions.

• AI
• API
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Incident Management
• Support
• Matrix
• SQL
• Security
• microservices
• ChatGPT
• Copilot

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We are Visa, a global payments technology company facilitating transactions among consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories. As Senior Manager, Software Engineering, you will lead engineering delivery and help build reliable solutions that support our business and customers worldwide. The role requires at least three days in the office, with the schedule confirmed by the hiring manager; work hours vary by department, and travel is expected 5–10% of the time. In the United States, the estimated annual salary range is $192,100–$307,800, potentially including sales incentives where applicable. The position may also be eligible for bonus, equity, and benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, life insurance, paid time off, and a wellness program. Visa is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants in accordance with applicable law.

last updated 41 week of 2026