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Job Location drjobs

Krakow - Poland

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Key responsibilities: 

  • Drive the technical architecture across the domain with a focus on modernization and scalability. 
  • Lead the design and implementation of microservices and cloud-native systems. 
  • Guide the transition from legacy systems to modern distributed systems. 
  • Collaborate with senior stakeholders (EMs Staff and Principal Engineers Directors) to align on technology direction. 
  • Champion engineering excellence fostering a culture of autonomy accountability and quality. 
  • Provide mentorship and leadership across engineering teams. 

Qualifications :

Basic qualifications: 

  • 12 years of experience in software engineering and product delivery. 
  • Strong background in computer science fundamentals algorithms and high-performance distributed systems. 
  • Deep expertise in Java and proficiency in modern engineering practices. 
  • Excellent communication and analytical skills; fluent English required (Polish is a plus). 
  • Proven ability to lead large-scale architecture efforts and mentor senior engineers. 

Cloud & Infrastructure: 

  • Experience designing and delivering cloud-based solutions; familiarity with GCP or Azure is highly desirable. 
  • Ability to lead cloud migration initiatives define roadmaps and align stakeholders. 
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native patterns (e.g. serverless autoscaling resilience). 

Architecture & System Design: 

  • Extensive experience in designing scalable and fault-tolerant microservices architectures. 
  • Comfortable transitioning large systems from monoliths to microservices. 
  • Familiar with system design patterns trade-offs and designing for operational excellence. 
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD observability (monitoring logging tracing) and production readiness practices. 

Leadership & strategic influence: 

  • Demonstrated ability to provide technical direction and architectural guidance across teams and domains. 
  • Experience leading cross-functional initiatives with Engineering Managers Product Owners and Staff Engineers. 
  • Comfortable working independently making informed decisions in complex and ambiguous environments. 
  • Skilled in aligning long-term technical strategy with business priorities and stakeholder needs. 

Engineering culture & operational excellence:

  • Strong advocate of metrics-driven development DevOps best practices and continuous improvement. 
  • Experience defining and driving engineering standards code quality and performance metrics. 
  • Ability to foster a collaborative feedback-oriented engineering culture. 


Remote Work :

Yes


Employment Type :

Full-time

Employment Type

Remote

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