Sr. Manager, Software Engineering (10 to 14 years, GenAI)

Visa is hiring a Sr. Manager, Software Engineering (10 to 14 years, GenAI) in IN - Bengaluru.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 8 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Master's, MBA, JD, MD) or 5 years of experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience — including demonstrated people-management experience.

Preferred qualifications

• 12 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 10 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree, or 7 or more years of experience with a PhD.
• Proven experience leading and growing engineering teams — hiring, coaching, performance management, and driving retention.
• Track record of delivering a product area predictably, with metrics for on-time delivery, quality, and operational health.
• Hands-on coding experience in one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, C#, Node.js), with the depth to review code and engage in technical discussions.
• Expertise with container and cloud technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, or Splunk).
• Experience championing or driving adoption of GenAI/LLM technologies within an engineering team.
• Experience building and guiding teams that build microservices using HTTP, REST, JSON, and XML.
• Experience guiding system design and architecture decisions for a product or platform area.
• Experience managing incidents, production support, and operational excellence practices.
• Experience partnering with product, QA, DevOps, and Agile/Scrum teams in a distributed, global engineering organization.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate technical and business trade-offs to diverse stakeholders.
• Payment industry experience is highly desirable.

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technology, and enjoys leading teams on challenging, global-scale projects.
• People-First Leadership: A genuine investment in developing engineers, with a track record of promotions, mentoring, and healthy team retention.

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