# Director, Software Engineering

Hiring organization: [Visa Inc.](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/visa-inc)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/39f352bc-3040-4946-b84b-f0e954281961

Listed on Visa Inc.'s own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: US - Foster City, CA
- Salary: 192300 – 307600 USD per year

## Summary

Lead the architecture and evolution of search, analytics, and data processing capabilities for Visa's payment acceptance platform, working hands-on with distributed systems, event streaming, and modern interfaces at massive scale. This role suits experienced technical leaders comfortable spanning backend and frontend domains while mentoring senior engineers and influencing strategy across the organization.

_Our summary, not Visa Inc.'s wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analytics, Angular, Apache Kafka, CI/CD, Data Processing, Generative AI, Java, JavaScript, JSON, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, React, REST APIs, TypeScript

## Required

- 10+ years of relevant experience, or 7+ with advanced degree, or 4+ with PhD
- Hands-on technical leadership with platform-wide impact
- Expertise designing and scaling mission-critical distributed systems
- Experience with event-driven systems and Kafka
- Search, indexing, analytics, or data-processing design at large scale
- Modern web UI design using React, Angular, or TypeScript

## Nice to have

- 12+ years of experience with Bachelor's degree, or 8-10 with advanced degree, or 6+ with PhD
- Payment processing or fintech platform experience
- Kubernetes and cloud platform mastery
- Experience mentoring senior engineers
- AI/ML or Generative AI implementation at scale
- Publications, speaking, patents, or industry recognition
- PCI-DSS and financial services compliance expertise
- Event correlation, transaction matching, and exactly-once processing patterns
- Data serialization and schema evolution experience
- Work with executive and architecture leadership

Apply on Visa Inc.'s site: https://visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Visa/job/US---Foster-City-CA/Lead-SW-Engineer_REF084919W