# Engineering Leader - Acceptance Solutions Product Development

**Company**: Visa
**Location**: Foster City, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Acceptance Solutions Product Development team at Visa is seeking a dynamic, hands-on engineering leader to lead teams building secure, high-performing distributed systems for payment acceptance.

The goal of the Visa Acceptance Platform is to be the world's most open payment platform by delivering market-leading, globally relevant, omnichannel acceptance componentry through open, composable, modular APIs delivered with Visa-grade resilience, security, maintenance, and scale.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of secure, reliable, robust, and interoperable payment acceptance products.

- Remain hands-on with architecture, design reviews, code reviews, technical troubleshooting, production readiness, and critical delivery decisions on a day-to-day basis.

- Provide engineering leadership to ensure solutions align with platform principles, architecture standards, and Visa-grade availability, resiliency, and operational excellence expectations.

- Define and execute the technical strategy for payment processing and acceptance platforms in alignment with product vision, business priorities, and long-term platform evolution.

- Drive delivery of fit-for-purpose products and platform capabilities that improve time-to-market while maintaining security, quality, scalability, and reliability.

- Apply AI/ML, Generative AI, and automation to improve productivity across the software development lifecycle and enable innovative business and product outcomes.

- Establish and continuously improve engineering best practices for application development, testing, deployment, observability, monitoring, incident response, and operational readiness.

- Partner with security, privacy, risk, governance, and compliance teams to ensure products meet applicable policies, standards, regulatory expectations, and customer commitments.

- Collaborate with product, regional, business, and client-facing stakeholders to translate requirements into high-quality solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements.

- Communicate technical strategy, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and delivery progress clearly to executive leadership, business partners, and engineering teams.

- Coach, mentor, and develop engineers and engineering leaders through regular feedback, technical reviews, brown bag sessions, tech talks, and career development conversations.

- Build and lead high-performing teams by promoting collaboration, constructive debate, accountability, inclusion, and execution excellence consistent with Visa Leadership Principles.

Qualifications:

- 10+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

- Demonstrated experience leading software engineering teams, including people management, coaching, performance development, and delivery accountability.

- Deep experience designing, building, and operating mission-critical distributed systems that require high availability, scalability, resiliency, and security.

- Proven ability to solve complex technical and organizational problems across multiple domains, systems, and teams.

- Experience setting technical direction, influencing architecture and delivery strategy, and aligning engineering execution with product and business objectives.

- Strong proficiency in modern software engineering practices, programming languages, API design, system design, testing, deployment, and operational excellence.

- Recent hands-on experience with architecture, design, coding practices, code reviews, debugging, production support, and technical decision-making in complex software systems.

- Experience with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, containerized deployment models, and modern DevOps practices.

- Experience with event-driven architecture, streaming platforms such as Kafka, and high-throughput transaction or data processing systems.

- Experience delivering secure software platforms, including familiarity with authentication, authorization, encryption, identity, and secure engineering practices.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Containers
- Kafka
- relational databases
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- modern cloud-native engineering practices
- AI/ML
- Generative AI

### Nice to have
- cloud platforms
- event-driven architecture
- streaming platforms
- high-throughput transaction or data processing systems
- secure software platforms
- authentication
- authorization
- encryption
- identity
- secure engineering practices

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