Company Description

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.

Job Description

PPD is looking for a Technical Lead to guide a talented team of software engineers in creating client-ready solutions. Your focus will be on developing the next generation of systems, automation, and tools to boost productivity and efficiency for developers. You will offer strategic direction and technical leadership to the product development teams at Visa Mobile, ensuring that our products are built with a strong foundation prioritizing high availability and security.

In this role, you will be responsible for recruiting and nurturing top engineering talent, keeping the team motivated and engaged to achieve outstanding results. Your ability to collaborate across different functions and teams will help align priorities and goals, drive outcomes, and foster a culture of Engineering Excellence and Innovation. You will work closely with product development, quality engineering, security engineering, enterprise operations, and other technology partners to deliver integrated and enabling business products.

This position will be based in Warsaw, Poland and will report directly to our Director of Engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineering for our JAVA Payment Services, SWIFT iOS Applications, and KOTLIN Android Applications.
• Focus on automation and aspiring towards zero production defects.
• Hands-on with deep learning toolkits: ScikitLearn, AutoGluon, PyTorch,
• TensorFlow.
• Expert in Retrieval - Augmented Generation (RAG), Vector Datastores,
• LLMs, and LangChain/llamaindex
• Expert in programming languages or frameworks: Python, Jax, or PyTorch.
• Apply ML technologies to solve real-world business problems.
• Experiences with large language models (e.g., BERT, GPT, Transformers).
• Demonstrated experience in machine learning, deep learning, or reinforcement
• learning.
• Able to engage with team members, mentor and grow their talent.
• Able to work in a matrix organization, empowering other team members and delivering results. 
• Guide team of developers and test engineers by motivating and mentoring, influencing large cross functional teams.
• Drive technology and business vision, design, develop and evolve highly scalable and highly performant mobile applications using functional programming paradigm.
• Partner with our product management teams to develop strong and effective relationships. 
• Work with other engineering and product leaders to evolve our delivery processes and drive cross-team collaboration and cooperation. 
• Drive full stack quality, scalability and availability across multiple applications, features, and technology initiatives
• Point of contact for senior leadership stakeholders and cross-functional teams 
• Communicate and adapt presentations to various stakeholders regarding goals, planning process, project initiatives, team innovation and results.
• Implement, gather, and report team/project metrics to track execution and effectiveness.
• Act decisively and collaborate to remove impediments for the team.
• Partner with Test, Release Engineering, Performance, Security and Release Management for timely releases and resolution of any impediments
• Establish and maintain relationships with payment partners in the industry creating technology solutions providing highly scalable UI integrations.
• Demonstrate our Visa values of passion for creating leadership in everyone and creating products that excel in customer experience with security in mind.

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

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a University degree
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture and operational best practices for building and maintaining highly available / scalable applications
• You have experience with consumer facing mobile application development
• Experience with mobile technologies such as SWIFT and KOTLIN.
• Langchain, ScikitLearn, AutoGluon, PyTorch, and TensorFlow.
• Experience with microservices architecture with Java, Spring Boot
• Experience with containers and cloud native solution development
• Experience with designing and building integrations using Docker, Kubernetes, Java, JavaScript, REST and SOAP web services
• Experience with translating business requirements into technical designs
• Proven track record of responsibilities as a technical lead/solutions architect
• Highly proficient with Continuous Integration / Delivery framework (CI/CD), release and change management, Sprint based agile delivery
• Ability to work with teams in multiple geographical locations and time zones
• Experience with Payment and/or Credit Card processing considered a plus

Additional Information

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.