Sr. Director - Software Engineering (14 - 18 years of experience, Java full stack with React + GenAI experience is a must)

Visa is hiring a Sr. Director - Software Engineering (14 - 18 years of experience, Java full stack with React + GenAI experience is a must) in IN - Bengaluru.

Requirements

• Basic Qualifications: 15+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor’s degree, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience
• Preferred Qualifications: 12 or more years of progressive engineering experience, including 10+ years leading large-scale transformation, product development and delivery team
• Energy and Experience: Growth mindset with a passion for People Technology/employee experience; experience delivering HR, employee-facing, or enterprise workflow solutions is preferred
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfortable pushing boundaries—simplifying experiences, automating workflows, and experimenting responsibly to improve outcomes
• Technology Expertise: Strong proficiency in one or more modern stacks (frontend, backend, cloud), plus experience with performance optimization, data security, data modeling, and GenAI/LLM-enabled application patterns (e.g., RAG, prompt/tool orchestration, evaluation, and observability). Experience with role-based access control and sensitive data handling (PII) is highly valued.
• Builder: Experience building, deploying, and driving adoption of modern GenAI services and web applications with strong quality, scalability, and operational excellence
• Learner: Constant drive to learn and apply new technologies (e.g., React/Angular, Kubernetes, Docker) and improve engineering practices

Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, UX, QA, DevOps/SRE, Agile/Scrum teams, and stakeholders such as HR and Security/Privacy to deliver outcomes

Visa is an EEO Employer Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

About Visa

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – t