Director Software Engineer

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 Visa's Global Token Services team is looking for a talented Director of Software Engineering. In this role, you will lead and manage a team that builds the next generation of Tokenization services with a passion for leading the development of world class payment services. Based in Warsaw, Poland, in this role, you will build a new team, apply your deep experience as a people manager and technologist leading a highly motivated, and proficient team producing highly available, active-active, secure, and robust backend services. Superior people management skills along with ability to work effectively with product managers, program managers, architects, service integrators and cross-functional teams across the globe is required. You will be supporting initiatives that span across multiple geographies enabling acceptance of Visa in consumer payments, enabling new form factors and drive cross border acceptance. Key Responsibilities: Own development, quality, scalability and availability across multiple applications, features, and technology initiatives. Point of contact for senior leadership stakeholders and cross-functional teams. Create and implement goals and action plans to align with overall organization objectives. Emulate strong management and leadership principles with the capacity to engage, motivate, mentor and coach teams distributed across various geographical locations. Communicate and adapt presentations to various stakeholders regarding goals, planning process, project initiatives, team innovation and results. Implement, gather, and report team/project metrics to track execution and effectiveness Champion the responsible use of AI to optimize development processes, reduce manual effort, and improve team performance. Hire and on-board high caliber engineers within planned budget and timeline. Accountable for the quality of development activities during the release of products to production. Act decisively and collaborate to remove impediments for the team Partner with Certification, Release Engineering, Performance, Security and Release Management for timely releases and resolution of any impediments. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. Qualifications Basic Qualifications: 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience. 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 Engineering or related field required. Master's degree or other related advanced degree preferred Requires 12+ years of experience with at least 3 years managing and leading engineering teams Extensive technical experience with developing backend distributed services on HTTP, JSON, Rest, Databases, Java frameworks Strong Software Engineering background with a good understanding in multi-tier enterprise architecture Proven experience delivering large scale, highly available production software Working knowledge of AI and the ability to apply AI tools to drive productivity, efficiency, and better engineering outcomes. A deep understanding of end to end software development in a team, and a track record of delivering software on time Strong business and technical vision Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a strong automation mindset Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment Ability to represent technical and business issues and solutions to multiple levels internally and externally to support organizational plans. Ability to work in a complex organization to determine business and customer needs, providing the best solution to meet those needs Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and leadership skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way. Ability to drive deliverables in a matrixed, cross-functional environment, working across a wide variety of stakeholders at all levels of the organization Ability to create an environment of highly engaged, motivated and innovative team members Payment processing background is a big plus 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. If you thrive on rapid growth and enjoy working alongside positive, driven teammates, you'll feel right at home here. Help us to uplift everyone, everywhere. Whether you're starting your career, pushing your capabilities or are a seasoned professional, learn how we can partner to reimagine the world. Introduce yourself to our recruiters and we'll get in touch if there's a role that seems like a good match. At Visa, we are driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. Our evolving technology keeps us at the heart of the digital economy, connecting people to 80+ million businesses worldwide. Backed by a resilient, proven model, our expanding network fuels growth—for Visa and for your career. Your journey starts here — discover how we hire Ready to take the next step? Learn more about life at Visa, explore our hiring process and get first-hand insights by hearing directly from our recruiters about what to expect. Apply with confidence today! Learn our recruiting process