Engineering Manager

Visa; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payments technology firm is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a Treasury team focused on developing solutions for global liquidity management. You'll oversee a team of engineers, contribute to enhancing observability in a green-field environment, and provide mentorship. Ideal candidates will have an educational background in Computer Science and relevant experience in managing technical teams. This hybrid position allows you to balance office and remote work, fostering both professional development and impactful contributions.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead.
• Experience managing contractors and outsourced teams.
• Proven delivery of scalable, fault-tolerant solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Treasury team to improve liquidity and cash management.
• Contribute to new liquidity observability and management platform.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members.

Skills

Engineering Management

Agile Processes

Java microservices

SQL proficiency

Kubernetes

Event-based solutions

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Advanced Degree (e.g., Master’s, MBA, JD, MD) or PhD

Tools

Kafka

MySQL

Ruby

Scala

Job description

Overview

You will be leading a Treasury team at VXBS (Visa-Cross-Border-Solutions) / CurrencyCloud, where we are creating software to build our systems to manage our global liquidity, to offer our customers a frictionless experience to exchange currencies, collect money and send payments. The Engineering Manager will be reporting to the Treasury Tribe Director of Engineering and will lead a team of 4+ software engineers to deliver services that operate in an event‑driven cloud architecture, working alongside versatile and experienced engineers to improve our liquidity and cash‑management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the new liquidity observability and management platform, with the opportunity to work on scaling software towards using event‑driven architecture in a largely green‑field environment.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members.
• Influence wider company architecture. The Liquidity Observability team will be a new team building observability based on the wider organisation’s activity, building views on our data to make meaningful decisions.
• Work alongside smart QA engineers, who build and maintain a vast collection of automated testing scenarios.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other technical related field, or an Advanced Degree (e.g., Master’s, MBA, JD, MD) or a PhD.
• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, Tech Lead and willingness to step into the EM role.
• Experience managing contractors and outsourced teams.
• Experience building software for the financial domain, especially in treasury or liquidity management.
• Experience working with agile processes and principles.
• Experience in multiple programming languages; teams primarily use Java, so experience with microservices in Java is important.
• Proficiency in other languages, ideally comfortable reading Ruby or Scala.
• Experience designing event‑based and streaming solutions using Kafka.
• Strong SQL knowledge and ability to understand and write complex queries.
• Working knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL.
• Experience building applications that run in Kubernetes.
• Working in a DevOps environment or passion and willingness to work in this way.
• Proven delivery of well‑tested, scalable, fault‑tolerant and performant solutions.
• A pragmatic approach to solutions and delivery of technical projects.
• Have been a driving force not only behind change in previous roles but also in working in a distributed environment.
• Comfortable reviewing code of peers in a collaborative environment.
• Personality: Genuinely interested in the intersection of finance domain and technology; desire to become a subject‑matter expert.
• A self‑starter who takes accountability for getting things done.
• Passionate about growing others while growing yourself; interest in continuous improvement and helping engineers understand the big picture.
• Pragmatism in decision making and ability to get buy‑in for ideas and get them done.
• Top‑notch stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence colleagues in small, cross‑functional scrum teams.
• Exceptional structure and attention to detail; comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work.
• Great written and verbal communication skills.

Hybrid Work

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

Company Overview

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. We are 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.