The Lead Software Engineer, WARSZAWA
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.
- Familiarity with Web/application servers: Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft IIS, Apache Tomcat, exposure to NGINX or JWS is a plus.
- LDAP concepts and basic directory administration tasks.
- Linux fundamentals and basic Windows Server administration.
- Monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Splunk or Elastic/Kibana, Grafana/Prometheus) for dashboards and alerts.
- Understanding of SSO/federation standards (SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0) and MFA concepts.
- Working knowledge of software development practices: Git, pull requests, basic scripting (Shell/Python), and issue/change tracking in Jira (or similar).
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with globally distributed teams, organized, detail oriented, and eager to learn.
- Awareness of release/change management and safe deployment patterns (e.g., peer reviews, maintenance windows, rollback plans).
Preferred 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.
- Hands on academic/internship experience integrating SSO or configuring IAM platforms (ForgeRock AM/DS preferred).
- Exposure to API auth concepts (OAuth 2.0 flows, JWT) and mTLS basics.
- Familiarity with web/security architecture fundamentals (TLS, reverse proxies, load balancers, WAF concepts).
- Basic CI/CD and infrastructure as code exposure (e.g., Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab CI, Terraform) and automated config promotion between environments.
- Experience writing small automations (Shell/Python/Groovy) to reduce toil, interest in using analytics/ML to automate repetitive IAM tasks.
- Awareness of incident/change/problem management processes and how they apply to IAM operations.
- Understanding of why GDPR, PCI DSS, and ISO/IEC 27001 matter for access controls, logging, and data handling.
About Us
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.
Job Description
Job Summary
The Lead Software Engineer is a senior, cross-functional role focused on driving technical excellence across multiple engineering teams. The role operates across a distributed delivery model, partnering with engineers and technical leads to ensure alignment on architecture, engineering practices, and execution standards.
This position emphasizes technical leadership, mentorship, and strategic guidance rather than direct people management. The role supports teams working across a range of technologies (including Java, .NET, and full-stack environments) and is responsible for influencing technical direction, improving development practices, and ensuring high-quality delivery outcomes.
The Lead Software Engineer plays a key role in shaping development workflows, optimizing testing strategies, and guiding teams in delivering scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions. While hands-on coding is not the primary focus, the role requires strong technical expertise to review solutions, support complex problem-solving, and maintain engineering standards.
Success in this role requires strong collaboration and communication skills, the ability to influence without direct authority, and experience working across multiple teams in a distributed environment. Experience in team leadership is considered an advantage, though not a strict requirement.
The role requires digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work.
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.