Senior Engineering Manager, Real-Time Payments Platform

Visa; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa is seeking a Senior Manager to lead engineering teams delivering features for strategic clients—merchants, acquirers, and partners. You will guide design, enhancement, and implementation of solutions spanning payment acceptance, security, analytics, fraud, and reporting.

You will oversee full‑stack, real‑time services and REST APIs, drive best practices, and coordinate across business, product, architecture, and delivery partners.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.
• 3+ years of experience in financial services, banking, or FinTech.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture and operational best practices for building and maintaining highly available / scalable applications.
• Experience with consumer facing application development.
• Proven track record of responsibilities as a technical lead.
• Experience with Java, C#, Web Frameworks, JavaScript and container-based technologies.
• Experience with different database technologies (SQL and No‑SQL) and analytic techniques including process and data modeling.
• Demonstrated experience in leading 2 or more Scrum teams in an Agile environment.
• Developing product roadmaps, writing user stories, backlog grooming, and managing cross-team dependencies.
• Ability to drive engineering excellence through CI/CD, code quality, and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution delivery across multiple agile teams.
• Provide architectural input and guide technology decisions to align with roadmaps.
• Ensure delivery of secure, scalable real-time and batch systems.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture.
• Collaborate with business partners on requirements, workflows, and process improvements.

Skills

Java

C#

Web frameworks

JavaScript

CI/CD

DevOps

Agile

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

PhD (optional)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

REST APIs

SQL/NoSQL databases

Job description

Visa is seeking a Senior Manager to lead engineering teams delivering features for strategic clients—merchants, acquirers, and partners. You will guide design, enhancement, and implementation of solutions spanning payment acceptance, security, analytics, fraud, and reporting.

You will oversee full‑stack, real‑time services and REST APIs, drive best practices, and coordinate across business, product, architecture, and delivery partners.