Director, Software Engineering

Visa

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Austin, TX
Salary
$186,800–$299,200 / yr
Posted
28 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Similar $237k
This role $243k
$160k most similar roles pay here $314k

This role pays more than 60% of similar roles. Most pay $208,800–$265,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $243k versus about $237k for comparable roles.

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About Visa

Visa Inc. is the world''s largest payment network, enabling digital payments for consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments through its global processing network and branded card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services

Visa currently has 93 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $149,200–$238,700 across 92 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Director, Software Engineering

As a Director, Software Engineering, you will lead software development teams in delivering secure, scalable, and high-quality fintech applications and platforms. You will oversee the full software development lifecycle, including backlog refinement, build, test, deployment, monitoring, and iteration while ensuring compliance with financial regulatory standards. Your daily responsibilities involve driving disciplined agile and DevSecOps practices, managing system architecture discussions, and overseeing project plans to resolve technical obstacles. You will integrate AI/ML capabilities like Generative AI into workflows while maintaining data governance. The role requires hands-on coding, code reviews, and technical prototyping for up to 65% of your time. Key skills include experience in web or mobile applications, incident response, and talent management. You will solve complex problems within the payments and banking technology domain using tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.

What you'll do

  • Lead software development teams in delivering secure, scalable fintech applications while overseeing the full software development lifecycle.
  • Drive disciplined agile and DevSecOps practices, including automated testing and CI/CD pipelines, to optimize delivery speed and quality.
  • Integrate AI/ML capabilities into development workflows while ensuring compliance with data governance and financial regulatory standards.
  • Spend up to 65% of time on hands-on coding, code reviews, and technical prototyping to maintain engineering standards.
  • Oversee system architecture design, project planning, and the translation of user requirements into technical specifications.
  • Establish standards for code quality, security, maintainability, and automated debugging across multiple products and teams.
  • Manage incident response efforts by providing technical expertise to resolve major issues and implementing preventative measures.
  • Mentor and develop engineering talent by coaching staff on new tools, frameworks, and AI-driven workflows.

What we're looking for

  • A Bachelor's degree or 13+ years of relevant work experience is required.
  • 10+ years of relevant work experience is required if a Bachelor's degree is not held.
  • Experience leading software engineering teams in fintech, payments, or banking technologies (preferred).
  • Experience in requirements gathering, system design, and architecture for complex software solutions (preferred).
  • Experience in agile delivery management and DevSecOps practices (preferred).
  • Experience in code development, review, debugging, and testing automation for enterprise-scale applications (preferred).
  • Experience in incident response and resolution for software engineering teams (preferred).
  • Experience in talent management, coaching, and engineering development (preferred).

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