Senior Platform Software Engineer
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Job Description
As a Senior Platform Software Engineer you will play a key role in designing and building the foundational systems that support our entire platform. Youll work with modern technologies such as Quarkus Kafka RabbitMQ ClickHouse AWS PostgreSQL Debezium and LLMs/MCP using Java Python JavaScript/TypeScript and Kotlin. Youll focus on delivering highly scalable and maintainable platform services contributing deep technical expertise and driving improvements across codebases and system architecture. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and share your knowledge to raise the technical bar across the organization.
Your responsibilities
- Platform Development: Contribute to the design & implementation of complex backend services that support large-scale business-critical workloads. Focus on scalability maintainability and performance
- System Design: Design and build highly scalable fault-tolerant distributed systems using microservices architecture and cloud-native patterns. Review architectural docs and provide guidance for cross-team feature implementation
- Cross-team Collaboration: Work closely with product engineering teams to understand requirements and design platform solutions that accelerate their delivery
- Mentorship: Guide and develop junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews pair programming and technical mentoring
- Technical Strategy: Contribute to technical roadmap planning and architectural decisions that balance innovation with maintainability
- Engineering Excellence: Drive best practices in code quality testing monitoring and deployment across the platform organization
- Take Ownership of Your Code: Support the features and services you build including participating in on-call rotations when needed and handling operational responsibilities.
What we look for
Required Experience
- 7 years of software engineering experience with at least 4 years in senior individual contributor roles
- Proven track record of architecting and building large-scale distributed systems in production environments
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience
- Technical mentorship experience with demonstrable impact on junior engineers growth
Technical Expertise
- Expert-level proficiency in Java Python or similar backend languages with deep understanding of performance optimization
- Advanced knowledge of distributed systems architecture including microservices event-driven architecture and data consistency patterns
- Production experience with Apache Kafka Kubernetes Docker and cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
- Strong foundation in database design optimization and distributed data management
- Experience with infrastructure as code CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- Understanding of system observability monitoring and debugging complex distributed systems
Leadership & Soft Skills
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and influence engineering decisions across teams
- Excellent communication skills with experience presenting technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
- Growth mindset with enthusiasm for learning new technologies and sharing knowledge with others
- Strong problem-solving abilities with experience debugging complex production issues
- Collaborative approach to engineering with experience working in cross-functional teams
- Fluency in English (speaking and writing) as our company language
Bonus points
- Staff Engineer experience or demonstrated readiness for technical leadership roles
- Experience with Quarkus Terraform Elasticsearch Debezium ClickHouse or similar technologies
- Experience with LLMs/MCP/Agents (Claude/Gemini/AWS Bedrock)
- Open source contributions or technical writing/speaking experience
- Previous experience scaling engineering teams or establishing technical standards
- Entrepreneurial mindset with experience in fast-growing technology companies
What we offer
- Hybrid work model - 2 days in the office 3 days remote
- RTT days - approx. 10 additional days off per year
- Meal vouchers (Swile) free snacks and coffee
- Health insurance (Alan) 60% covered plus full coverage for provident insurance
- Afterworks team celebrations and seasonal events
- Equipment of your choice
- French and English lessons professional development and access to the CSE Leeto
Please note: applications should be submitted in English.
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Employment Type
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