Director of Engineering

Visa; Corvallis (OR); On-site; USD 172,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Generous benefits

Family-friendly schedules

Job summary

Visa in Corvallis, OR is seeking a Director of Engineering who has shipped Kafka to production, learned from the experience, and can own technology directions for Visa's services. You will help scale our Decision Making stack from the Corvallis pilot to an Oregon-wide rollout and design RESTful APIs powering core Visa products.

Join a culture that blends mentorship, generous benefits, and schedules that bend toward family, with a concrete compensation range of $172,000 to $251,000 per year.

Qualifications

• Ownership mindset with responsibility for outcomes.
• Growth mindset and ability to use feedback constructively.
• Portfolio or work samples demonstrating technology leadership.
• Self-direction in low-communication environments.

Responsibilities

• Translate technology compliance rules into customer service guardrails baked into the build.
• Scale Visa's Decision Making services from Corvallis pilot to OR-wide rollout.
• Pair Decision Making and Kafka in a pipeline Visa can extend without your help later.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs powering core Visa products.
• Negotiate Laravel tradeoffs with product when Visa timelines and reality collide.

Skills

Ownership mindset

Growth mindset

Portfolio/work samples

Self-direction

Tools

Kafka

Laravel

REST APIs

Job description

The Director of Engineering we want has shipped Kafka to production, broken it, and learned more from the second part than the first. The whole arrangement rewards initiative — $172,000 - $251,000 to start, technology ownership throughout, and Visa backing every step.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate technology compliance rules into Customer Service guardrails baked into the build
• Scale Visa's Decision Making services from Corvallis pilot to OR-wide rollout
• Pair Decision Making and Kafka in a pipeline Visa can extend without your help later
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs powering core Visa products
• Negotiate Laravel tradeoffs with product when Visa timelines and reality collide

What You'll Bring

• Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you
• A growth mindset that treats feedback as fuel, not threat
• A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your technology expertise
• Self-direction that survives a quiet Slack channel

For all its candidly-kind ambition, Visa still operates like the scrappy Corvallis startup that first cracked technology years ago. A director engineer and a director debate Webpack ideas on equal footing in our Corvallis standups.

What sits behind the $172,000 - $251,000 offer is a Visa culture built on real mentorship, generous benefits, and schedules that bend toward family.

Live and hiring this very moment for the Corvallis, OR team.

If steady internship work with real stakes appeals to you, the Director of Engineering chair is waiting.