# Senior Director of Software Engineering

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

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## Description

Visa is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead engineering for key capabilities within the Risk and Security Solutions (RAS) organization. This is a deeply technical role for an AI-forward engineering leader who combines organizational leadership with strong hands-on software engineering, architecture and delivery ownership.

You will lead a high-performing team of engineers and AI agents responsible for building and operating high-scale, mission-critical, distributed systems that power customer-facing risk and security products. You will be expected to go beyond directional leadership: this role requires an AI-forward leader who can personally engage in architecture, design, code reviews, technical problem solving, production issue resolution, and where necessary hands-on code contribution to accelerate delivery, unblock teams, and raise the engineering bar.

**Responsibilities:**

- Own the technical architecture, design, implementation, and delivery of customer-facing Risk & Security products and platform capabilities.

- Translate product strategy into scalable, secure, resilient, and operable distributed systems.

- Actively participate in code, design and architecture reviews, root-cause analysis, and contribute code when needed to unblock teams or accelerate critical initiatives.

- Establish and enforce engineering standards for agentic development lifecycle, context engineering, code quality evals, performance, scalability, availability, observability, maintainability, and secure software delivery.

- Partner with Product Management, Cybersecurity, SRE/Operations to deliver solutions that maximize customer value, platform health, and execution predictability.

- Build and execute technology roadmaps that balance business priorities, engineering sustainability, technical debt reduction, and operational efficiency.

- Drive adoption of engineering best practices including CI/CD, test automation and telemetry.

- Communicate technical strategy, execution status, key tradeoffs, risks, and architectural decisions clearly to senior leadership.

- Attract, retain and grow high-performing engineering talent.

- Enable technical and process innovation through thought leadership and influence.

- Understand current and future trends within the payments industry.

**Requirements:**

- 18+ years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree or with an Advanced degree

- Led a team of 40+ made up of full-time employees, contractors and AI agents.

- Proven hands-on technical leadership by actively participating in code and design reviews.

- Built a culture of engineering excellence (context engineering, code quality evals, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.)

- Effectively managed complex technical interdependencies across geographical teams.

- Partnered with product management in developing a strategy and roadmap that align with business and engineering goals.

- Partnered with remote teams to ensure alignment across product development. Bring a global mindset.

- Demonstrated ability to hire, coach, retain, and develop high-performing engineers and engineering leaders while raising the overall technical bar of the organization.

- Enabled innovation through thought leadership and influence.

- Deep expertise in building and operating high-scale distributed systems with demanding requirements for latency, throughput, resilience, security, and availability.

- Strong architectural judgment across service decomposition, API design, asynchronous messaging, data consistency, caching, failure isolation, and recovery strategies.

- Excellent execution leadership with the ability to align teams, prioritize effectively, manage risk, and deliver against commitments in ambiguous or high-pressure environments.

- Strong cross-functional partnership skills with the ability to influence Product, Operations, and senior stakeholders through technical credibility and data-driven communication.

## Skills

### Required
- Agentic development
- Distributed systems
- Software engineering
- Architecture
- Leadership

### Nice to have
- Java
- Go
- Rust
- JavaScript
- CI/CD
- Test automation
- Telemetry
- DevOps
- Event-driven architecture
- Enterprise integration patterns

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