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Visa

Sr. Director - Software Engineering (18+ years' experience - Java, React, AWS, GenAI)

Visa

Published 07 Apr 2026
Bangalore, India
Full Time

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Role Highlights

Languages used

Java
Python
SQL

Key skills

Generative AI
Prompt Engineering
Vector Database
Computer Science
API
CICD
Product Development
Distributed Systems
Technical Leadership
Test Automation
Strategic Thinking
Incident Management
B2C
B2B
Architecture
Security
Backend
Reliability
NOSQL
Serverless
LLMs
RAG

Tools, Libraries and Frameworks

Rest
IOS
Spring Boot
J2EE
Adobe
Kubernetes
Kafka
AWS
Azure
Docker
React

Description

Visa Sr. Director - Software Engineering (18+ years' experience - Java, React, AWS, GenAI) \\\| SmartRecruiters Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox . Sr. Director - Software Engineering (18+ years' experience - Java, React, AWS, GenAI) Full-time Job Family Group: Engineering and Technology Company Description 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 to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you. Job Description Visas Technology Organization is a global community of problem solvers and innovators shaping the future of commerce. We operate one of the worlds most sophisticated payment and risk processing networkscapable of handling more than 65K secure transactions per second across 80M merchants, 15K financial institutions, and billions of consumers worldwide. Our teams tackle some of the most complex challenges in distributed systems, global-scale platforms, cybersecurity, data, and next-generation B2C and B2B experiences. We are seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to provide strategic and technical leadership for large-scale, distributed foundational services. This role is responsible for defining long-term platform vision, driving a cloud-first and cloud-native architecture, and ensuring the delivery of highly available, secure, and performant systems at global scale. As a senior technology leader, you will operate at the intersection of engineering excellence, product strategy, and business outcomes, influencing enterprise-wide architecture decisions and shaping Visas technology roadmap across multiple regions and portfolios. Essential Functions : Define and govern enterprise-level architecture and engineering standards, ensuring alignment with global security, compliance, and regulatory requirements. Drive automation and platform efficiencies across systems and tools, prioritizing investments that deliver the highest business and operational impact. Establish and oversee global operating rhythms, including code quality standards, incident management, on-call excellence, and production readiness. Leverage deep expertise across backend platforms and distributed systems to lead systemic improvements in reliability, scalability, and developer productivity. Ensure technology execution consistently meets customer, business, and regulatory expectations across regions and product lines. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager. Qualifications Basic Qualifications: 18 or more years of experience with a Bachelors Degree or with an Advanced Degree / PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 15+ years of progressive engineering experience, including 12+ years leading largescale product development and delivery. Proven expertise across modern technology stacks, including Java/J2EE, Adobe AEM, Python, Spring Boot, React, RESTful APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, Kubernetes, Kafka, and test automation frameworks. Demonstrated success driving measurable improvements in engineering productivity, delivery velocity, system performance, reliability, and operational excellence through datadriven leadership. Deep experience with cloudnative architectures, leveraging AWS and/or Azure, containerization (Docker), Kubernetes, serverless computing, and automated CI/CD pipelines. Advanced knowledge of Generative AI and Agentic AI, including handson experience integrating LLMs, vector databases, RAG, prompt engineering, and AI governance into production platforms to achieve orderofmagnitude productivity gains. Strong foundation in securebydesign architecture, including zerotrust, defenseindepth, and compliancedriven engineering within highly regulated, missioncritical environments. Recognized architectural leadership, with experience designing and operating globally distributed, activeactive, multiregion platforms requiring high availability, resilience, and scalability. Exceptional leadership, communication, and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to influence at all levels, mentor senior leaders, and articulate complex technical strategies to executive and business stakeholders. Additional Information 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. 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Required Qualifications and Skills

The role requires 18 or more years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Degree/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. It also necessitates 15+ years of progressive engineering experience, including 12+ years leading large-scale product development and delivery. Proven expertise across modern technology stacks such as Java/J2EE, React, and AWS is essential. Advanced knowledge of Generative AI and Agentic AI, including hands-on experience integrating LLMs, vector databases, RAG, prompt engineering, and AI governance into production platforms, is also required. A strong foundation in secure-by-design architecture and recognized architectural leadership with experience in globally distributed, high-availability platforms are necessary.

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Visa

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25017

Website

visa.com

HQ

Foster City, US

Public/Private

Public Company

Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payment transactions between various parties across over 200 countries and territories each year. Their mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. By including everyone everywhere, Visa believes in uplifting everyone everywhere. Working with Visa means contributing to a culture that embraces identity and purpose, ensuring that the work has a direct impact on billions of people globally by unlocking financial access and enabling the future of money movement.

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