Engineering Manager / Scrum Manager, Home Based in London

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Currencycloud was acquired by Visa in December 2021.

Our Engineering Managers lead the engineers that are responsible for implementing an industry-leading API that has already processed over 50 billion USD of cross-border transactions for over 5 million end-users, and is available to our clients 24/7. The Engineering Manager is responsible for all engineers in a team, including both Software and Quality engineers. If you follow Pat Kua and his 5 Engineering Manager Archetypes, we see our role in between the Tech Lead Manager and the Team Lead Manager. We believe that our managers must have a technical background to have productive conversations with our engineers, but we don't expect them to be coding all the time.

Our usual team structure consists of an Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Agile Delivery Manager, 3-4 Software Engineers and 1-2 QA Engineers. Represents the team in the wider engineering and tech organisations. Spends time driving technical discussions and decisions, and writing code. Actively guide architecture, tool choices and internal technical quality and best practices. Actively raises and drives work to manage tech debt, scalability, performance and maintainability of our software. Continually tunes the team software process to deliver a sustainable and seamless flow of value. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD.
• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, Team Lead or willingness to step into this role.
• A deliberate decision to stay on a leadership track by managing a team of Individual Contributors.
• Experience working with Agile process and principles.
• Ability to communicate equally effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Modern programming languages, primarily using Java, so experience with Java (opensource) would be preferable.
• Modern Cloud-Native architectures and practices, including high-availability, high-scalability, microservices, 12-factor apps, CI/CD, heavy testing automation and observability.
• TDD, BDD and Contract testing.
• Knowledge of tools such as Kafka, Kubernetes or Docker.
• Working in a DevOps environment, or passion and willingness to work in this way.
• A pragmatic approach to solutions and delivery of technical projects.
• An interest for continuous improvement and helping engineers to feel part of something bigger.
• Top-notch stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence colleagues in small, cross-functional scrum teams.
• Comfortable working in a scale-up or growth environment and as part of a wider team.

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.