Visa-Backed Director of Engineering: Kafka & APIs

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

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.