Senior Manager
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About the role
Currencycloud was acquired by Visa in December 2021. Our Senior Managers lead the engineers that are responsible for implementing an industryleading API that has already processed over 50 billion USD of crossborder transactions for over 5 million endusers and is available to our clients 24/7.
We follow the principle of having small autonomous teams that are owners of their future. The Senior 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 dont expect them to be coding all the time.
As we grow we started grouping teams into tribes following a version of the Spotify model. Tribes are a number of teams working under the same domain where interactions between teams (and their services) although autonomous are tighter than teams/services outside the tribe.
What youll get to do
Team/People:
Grows team members and builds a highperforming team
Spends time recruiting and organising activities that increase retention
Creates an environment of psychological safety enabling team members to thrive
Represents the team in the wider engineering and tech organisations.
A key champion of our culture
Technical:
Drives the team to decide how to implement our product. Can break ties and has the last word on technical matters.
Has a broad set of expertise and experience on various technical matters
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 Type 2 work to manage tech debt scalability performance and maintainability of our software
Ensures support and operations for services in production with aid of their team.
Drives technical excellence.
Process:
Continually tunes the team software process to deliver a sustainable and seamless flow of value
Managing productivity of the engineers in the team.
Navigates and overcomes organizational processes and structures (i.e bureaucracy)
Communicates reports to and aligns with stakeholders
Ensures team ceremonies run smoothly regularly and efficiently.
Youll get:
Clear ownership of your domain
A clean modern codebase
An independent path to production
Strong platform and product support
The ability to make real changes with real business value.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications :
Basic Qualifications
8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree 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
TECH:
2 years of experience as an Engineering Manager Tech Lead Team Lead or OR willingness to step in to 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 nontechnical stakeholders
Modern programming languages these teams primarily use Java so experience with Java (opensource) would be preferable
Modern CloudNative architectures and practices. To name some: highavailability highscalability microservices 12factor 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.
Proven delivery of welltested scalable faulttolerant and performant solutions.
A pragmatic approach to solutions and delivery of technical projects.
Have been a driving force not only behind change in your previous roles but also in working in a distributed environment.
Having worked in a collaborative environment where you are comfortable reviewing code of your peers
PERSONALITY
A selfstarter who takes accountability for getting things done.
Passionate about growing others while growing yourself. An interest for continuous improvement and helping engineers to feel part of something bigger.
Pragmatism in decision making and ability to get buyin for ideas and getting them done.
Topnotch stakeholder management skills including the ability to influence colleagues in small crossfunctional scrum teams.
Exceptional structure and attention to detail.
Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work.
Great written and verbal communication skills.
Comfortable working in a scaleup or growth environment and as part of a wider team
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.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
