Staff Sw Engineer

October 5, 2026

Hybrid

Lead

Warszawa, PL

Indeed

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Mandatory office attendance
3 days per week
Includes on-call duty
English is required

Description

Visa is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in Warsaw to design, build, and improve secure, scalable backend systems in the fintech payments domain. Engineers spend approximately 60–75% of their time coding with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, AWS, and modern tooling including AI-assisted development. The role collaborates with product, design, QA, security, and operations teams and includes on-call incident response and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with stakeholders to determine requirements for product components and incorporate feedback into future designs
Translate functional requirements into system designs and communicate component interactions, ensuring alignment with business needs and timelines
Design and develop product components, refine code plans, and lead design reviews
Contribute to project estimation, considering delivery costs and escalating issues that may cause delays
Create extensible, reusable code and drive code quality through metrics and best practices
Apply debugging tools to resolve moderately complex issues and identify opportunities for automation
Lead code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards and providing feedback to team members
Create complex test plans, identify test gaps, and proactively address defects to minimize customer impact
Leverage data analysis and monitoring standards to identify patterns and defects in all environments
Respond to incidents during on-call rotations, troubleshoot complex issues, and assist in incident resolution
Build, enhance, and identify new developer tools to support programs and applications
Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to trends and technical solutions to improve product performance

Requirements

5+ years of relevant work experience with a bachelor's degree, or 2 years with an Advanced degree, or 0 years with a PhD, or 8+ years of relevant experience
Experience in software engineering or a directly related field
Experience designing, developing, and operating backend systems using Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and microservices architectures
Experience with the AWS cloud platform, including highly available, scalable, and secure cloud-native applications
Experience designing distributed systems with a focus on resiliency, fault tolerance, and performance
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, and modern GitOps-based deployment practices
Experience implementing observability solutions including monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting
Experience in developing and/or implementing web-based or mobile applications
Experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports
Experience in debugging and troubleshooting software issues
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, Operations) to deliver technical solutions
Experience in code review and applying coding standards
Experience applying GenAI/LLM-based tools or techniques within a software engineering workflow
Ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot)
Experience working with container-based technologies
Experience building and testing enterprise-scale web services
Experience with payments, acceptance devices, or point-of-sale platforms

Conditions

At least 3 days in office, expectations confirmed by your Hiring Manager
Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pension, Life Insurance
Annual Leave and Wellness Program
Position may be eligible for bonus and equity

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