Software Engineer, Early in Career (Cracow, Poland)
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Location: Krakow, Poland (hybrid role with 3 days per week in the office)
Start date: Autumn 2026
Meet the Team
The IT Workforce Collaboration (IT WFC) organization is dedicated to crafting a world-renowned, human-centered workplace experience that empowers employees to do their best work. As part of Cisco IT’s Workforce Collaboration organization, we act as our own first customer, redefining the employee experience through a culture of service, agility, and kindness. You will collaborate with a global, multi-functional team of innovators, accelerators, and transformers who are passionate about improving Cisco’s collaboration portfolio to build the future of work.
Your Impact
As a Software Engineer, you will join us at a groundbreaking time to rethink and reinvent technology solutions for a Fortune 100 enterprise. You will build and implement full-stack features, maintain business-critical applications at scale, and apply a security-first demeanor to every solution. By working with the latest technologies, you will deliver high-quality outcomes for internal partners while participating in observability, solving, and continuous improvement. Your work will guide how our employees handle real estate, utilities, and capital projects, driving efficiency and innovation across the company.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or top of 2 years of equivalent experience in relevant field.
Experience building and shipping software using TypeScript and React (or equivalent modern SPA frameworks) and experience with Python for web or service development.
Good track record to invent, consume, and test REST APIs with a shown understanding of HTTP request/response contracts and authentication patterns. Shown experience with relational databases and SQL, including mapping business data to application models
Excellent written and verbal English skills, with outstanding interpersonal abilities and a talent for translating technical information for diverse partners
You are able to live and work in Poland with no additional VISA sponsorship from Cisco.
Preferred Qualifications
Strong collaborative demeanor with the ability to work efficiently in global, multi-functional, and agile environments.
Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
Familiarity with innovative development practices such as automated testing (Cypress/Playwright), CI/CD pipelines
Familiarity with use of AI assisted development - eg Cursor / Co Pilot for GitHub / Windsurf / Claude Code
Highly motivated, dedicated, and committed to lifelong learning with a focus on problem-solving.
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
How we score this
Software Engineer, Early in Career (Cracow, Poland) at Cisco scores 25 out of 100 on AI centrality, which makes it AI Level 1 of 4 (Little AI) on this board. The level measures how much of the work is AI, not seniority.
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