Manager

Essential Functions

• Lead the design and development of scalable, reliable, and high-performance applications using a microservice architecture, ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards.

• Manage, mentor and motivate a high-performing development team, setting clear priorities to achieve short-term goals and OKRs.

• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of applications, ensuring alignment with business goals and timelines

• Ensure adherence to industry security standards and best practices. Oversee regular security audits, vulnerability management, and integrate security measures throughout the software development lifecycle

• Lead the team in providing support for production defects, ensuring timely diagnosis and resolution. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to implement fixes and prevent recurrence.

• Ensure high test coverage with unit tests and regularly review test results and coverage metrics

• Provide expert technical guidance to team members on programming languages, frameworks, architecture design and tools. Assist in solving complex technical problems and making critical technical decisions.

• Monitor team performance, provide constructive feedback, and support professional growth and development.

• Build strong relationships with leaders and stakeholders to command their attention and foster collaboration.

• Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring the team adheres to Scrum principles and practices.

• Communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders effectively.

• Work closely with Security, Engineering, Testing and Support team to ensure seamless integration and delivery of applications.

• Propose innovations and improvements to current processes, procedures, and tools to boost team productivity and benefit the organization.

• Apply creative thinking to drive automation goals and align with the technology strategy.

• Be an exemplary leader, embodying the organization's culture, vision, mission, and goals.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Basic Qualifications
• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
• Preferred 2+ years’ experience as a team lead
• Expertise in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript) and experience working on HTML, CSS, Angular for frontend development.
• Proven experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality, scalability and security
• Strong knowledge of secure coding practices, data encryption, and access control, along with hands-on experience in conducting security audits, managing vulnerabilities, and integrating security measures into the SDLC
• Good understanding of Load Balancers, Firewalls, Storage Systems, Caching, monitoring and logging and DR plans for building highly scalable and reliable web applications.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem solving skills in order to identify problems and implement resolutions quickly
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams. Ability to mediate and resolve conflicts.
• Experience working in a Scrum team and/or other agile models.
• Ability to work effectively with others, both within and outside the team. Foster a collaborative environment to achieve common goals.
• Understanding of DevOps principles and practices.
• Natural collaborator with excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.

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.