Sr. Team Lead, Software Engineering

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Visa's Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity: 

The Risk and Identity Solutions (RaIS) team is driving innovation in secure authentication experiences for customers and partners. As a Software Engineering Senior Team Lead, you will guide a talented engineering team delivering large-scale, mission-critical solutions for the Visa Consumer Authentication Service, which powers card-not-present transactions globally.

You will lead by example—contributing to design and code, mentoring engineers, and fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and inclusion.

Essential Functions: 

• Lead and mentor a team of 7+ software engineers (employees and contractors).
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across the development lifecycle.
• Partner with Product and Architecture teams to define and deliver a scalable roadmap.
• Build a culture of engineering excellence—focusing on quality, performance, security, and reliability.
• Enhance team productivity through automation, modern tools, and GenAI.
• Invest in the professional growth of your team and create an inclusive, supportive environment.

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions
• Leadership Expertise: Motivate, influence and lead by example to establish and achieve common goals across Visa.
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

NOTE:  Relocation and immigration sponsorship are not available for this role.

Basic Qualifications:

• 8 + years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience. (This is the base BQ approved by legal )

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9 + years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7+ relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field required or 3+ years of experience with a PhD
• 2+ years of experience as a technical or team lead managing 7-10 direct reports.
• Strong coding background in Java, Kubernetes, MongoDB, and Redis.
• Proven ability to improve productivity using automation or AI tools.
• Experience collaborating in cross-functional, globally distributed teams.
• Growth mindset, curiosity, and a drive to learn and apply new technologies (e.g., React, Angular, Docker).
• Excellent communication, mentorship, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in UI/UX development is a plus.
• MBA or leadership certification is a plus.
• Demonstrated success in hiring, mentoring, and developing diverse, high-performing teams.

Why Join Us:

At Visa, we believe that innovation thrives in an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and experiences—if you’re passionate about building secure, scalable solutions that impact billions, we’d love to hear from you.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 162,500.00 to 235,950.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.