Engineering Manager

Visa; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payment technology firm in the UK is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Treasury team. You will lead software engineers in creating solutions for managing global liquidity and enhancing customer experiences in currency exchange and payments. The ideal candidate will have experience in engineering management, a strong grasp of agile processes, and technical skills in Java, SQL, and Kubernetes. This hybrid position requires effective stakeholder management and a deep interest in the intersection of finance and technology.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead.
• Experience in the financial domain, especially in treasury or liquidity management.
• Experience building applications that run in Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers to deliver services in an event-driven architecture.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members.
• Influence wider company architecture and build observability systems.

Skills

Engineering management

Agile processes

Microservices in Java

SQL

Kubernetes

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kafka

MySQL

Job 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

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 frictionless experience to exchange currencies, collect money and send payments.

Engineering Manager will be reporting to the Treasury Tribe Director of Engineering. The EM will be leading a team of 4+ software engineers to deliver services that in an event driven cloud architecture.

You will be working alongside versatile and experienced engineers improving our liquidity and cash management capabilities. This includes the following contributions:

• 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 greenfields 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 organisations 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.

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

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical related field or an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or a PhD.

2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, Tech Lead and willingness to step into the EM role.

Technical Qualifications:

• Experience managing working with contractors and outsource teams is important.
• Experience building in software for financial domain, especially in treasury or liquidity management is beneficial.
• Experience working with agile process and principles.
• Experience in multiple programming languages, these teams primarily use Java, so experience with microservices in Java is important.
• Proficient in different programming languages, ideally being comfortable reading Ruby or Scala.
• Experience designing event based and streaming solutions using Kafka will be valued.
• Strong SQL knowledge, ability to understand and write complex queries.
• Working knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL.
• Experience building applications that run in Kubernetes would be handy.
• 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 your previous roles but also in working in a distributed environment.
• Having worked in a collaborative environment where you are comfortable reviewing code of your peers.

Personality:

• Genuinely interested in 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. An interest for continuous improvement and helping engineers to understand the big picture.
• Pragmatism in decision making and ability to get buy-in for ideas and getting 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.

Additional Information

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.