Director, Software Engineering

Visa; Warszawa; Vor Ort; PLN 337.000 - 553.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical

Dental

Vision

Pension

Life Insurance

Annual Leave

Wellness Program

Zusammenfassung

Visa leads software development teams in delivering secure, scalable fintech applications and platforms. The role oversees end-to-end SDLC, ensures alignment with business priorities, regulatory requirements, and data governance, while promoting agile, DevSecOps, and AI-enabled tooling across teams.

Reporting to engineering leadership, you’ll mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and balance hands-on coding with strategic planning to deliver reliable, compliant solutions for customers

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in leading software engineering teams in fintech, payments, or banking technologies/software systems.
• Experience in developing and/or implementing web-based or mobile applications.
• Experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
• Experience in requirements gathering, system design, and architecture for complex software solutions.
• Experience in agile delivery management and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience in code development, review, and debugging for enterprise-scale applications.
• Experience in test planning, execution, and automation.
• Experience in incident response and resolution for software engineering teams.
• Experience in talent management, coaching, and engineering development.

Aufgaben

• Lead multiple software engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable fintech applications and platforms.
• Oversee the full software development lifecycle from backlog refinement to deployment and monitoring.
• Drive disciplined agile and DevSecOps practices to optimize delivery speed and reliability.
• Ensure outputs adhere to data governance, model explainability, and regulatory standards.
• Coach engineers, remove blockers, and foster an inclusive, high-performance culture.
• Collaborate with product, QA, risk, compliance, and security functions to deliver safe solutions.
• Balance hands-on coding (up to 50-65%) with leadership responsibilities and architectural decisions.
• Guide tool selection, code reviews, and best practices across multiple products and teams.
• Lead incident response, set monitoring standards, and ensure post-incident learnings.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Team management

Agile delivery

DevSecOps

Communication

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree (optional)

Tools

Container technologies

Jobbeschreibung

About Us Visa

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. Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Pay Transparency The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is zł336 700 - zł553 150 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.

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Pension
• Life Insurance
• Annual Leave
• Wellness Program

Job Description

Role Summary: Leads software development teams in delivering secure, scalable, high-quality fintech applications and platforms. Oversees the execution of the full software development lifecycle-from backlog refinement through build, test, deployment, monitoring, and iteration - ensuring delivery meets business priorities, regulatory requirements, and ethical standards. Drives disciplined agile and DevSecOps practices, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and continuous improvement to optimize delivery speed, quality, and resilience. Ensures development work integrates responsibly with AI/ML capabilities- Including Generative AI and Agentic AI coding and that all outputs adhere to established data governance, model explainability, and financial regulatory compliance standards. Acts as a leader for engineering teams, removing blockers, enabling productivity, and fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture. Coaches and develops engineers to adapt to evolving tools, frameworks, and AI-driven workflows. Partners closely with product managers, QA, risk, compliance, and security functions to deliver safe, transparent, and customer-centric solutions. While primarily a leadership role, may spend up to 50-65% of time in hands-on coding, code reviews, and technical prototyping to guide best practices and maintain technical credibility. All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitors throughput across multiple teams to determine capacity and oversees partnerships with stakeholders to define user requirements for complex projects.
• Guides requirements gathering, feedback incorporation, and actionable metrics to assess delivery feasibility and reviews gaps in acceptance criteria.
• Oversees translation of user requirements into system designs, ensuring alignment with business strategy and formalizing best practices.
• Leads system architecture discussions, interprets findings from investigations, and owns design decisions for complex products.
• Oversees project plans, release plans, and estimation processes, addressing escalated issues and removing technical obstacles.
• Develops standards for code quality, security, and maintainability; updates security assessment processes to ensure code is free from threats.
• Shapes best practices for debugging, automation, and code review across multiple products and teams.
• Provides guidance on test planning, prioritizes tests, and ensures expected testing results across product features.
• Leads system monitoring efforts, sets data analysis standards, and aligns project strategy for long-term value.
• Provides technical expertise to resolve major incidents, ensures teams have resources to respond to incidents, and shares learnings to prevent recurrence.
• Manages team decisions around developer tools, oversees selection and enhancement of tools, and shares best practices for complex products.
• Identifies and develops engineering talent, ensures team skills support business goals, and disseminates knowledge to improve product reliability and performance.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in leading software engineering teams in fintech, payments, or banking technologies/software systems.
• Experience in developing and/or implementing web-based or mobile applications.
• Experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
• Experience in requirements gathering, system design, and architecture for complex software solutions.
• Experience in agile delivery management and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience in code development, review, and debugging for enterprise-scale applications.
• Experience in test planning, execution, and automation.
• Experience in incident response and resolution for software engineering teams.
• Experience in talent management, coaching, and engineering development.

Preferred Qualifications

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD.
• Experience in securities, payments, and banking technologies.
• Experience working with container-based technologies.
• Experience building and testing enterprise-scale web services.
• Experience in product development and working on internal or client-facing project or technical teams.
• Experience leading project teams.

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 prote