Senior Manager, Software Engineering

About Us

Visa is a global leader in payments technology, enabling transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments in over 200 countries and territories. The company’s mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable, and secure payment network.

At Visa, you have the opportunity to make an impact at scale—working on meaningful challenges, developing your skills, and contributing to solutions used worldwide.

Job Description

Summary

As an Engineering Manager (Localization Team), you will lead the development of connected services for the Core platform in emerging Pismo markets. This role requires a strong focus on security, scalability, observability, and reliability, as your team will be responsible for mission-critical components.

You will combine technical leadership, architectural vision, and people management to guide your team, solve complex engineering challenges, and deliver high-quality solutions.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a high-performance and collaborative environment

• Recruit and onboard technical talent aligned with team and company goals

• Define and drive the technical vision and system architecture

• Ensure system stability, scalability, and data integrity

• Manage multiple development initiatives (planning, prioritization, execution) in Agile

• Implement and enforce best practices (code reviews, CI/CD, coding standards)

• Oversee product quality through testing and quality assurance processes

• Maintain high security standards and regulatory compliance

• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and stakeholders

• Communicate plans, risks, and progress clearly

• Lead incident response and production support

• Build observability (metrics, tracing, logs) to meet SLOs and SLAs

Work Model

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

Qualifications

Basic Requirements

• 8+ years of experience (Bachelor’s) / 5+ years (Master’s) / 2+ years (PhD)
  or 11+ years of experience without a degree

Preferred Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience (Bachelor’s) or 7+ years (Advanced Degree)

• Minimum 3 years managing engineering teams

• 7+ years in software development (Java)

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (or equivalent experience)

• Location: within commuting distance of Warsaw

Technical & Professional Skills

• Strong leadership, communication, and decision-making skills

• Experience working in Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

• Knowledge of relational databases and SQL

• Experience with microservices and event-driven architecture

• Experience in performance testing and monitoring

• Hands-on experience with:

  • Java and/or Golang

  • AWS, Terraform

  • Containerization technologies

  • CI/CD and code review practices

• Understanding of security and scalability in distributed systems

• Experience in payments/financial services (nice to have)

Language

• English: minimum B2 level

Additional Information

Visa is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants regardless of background, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.