Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer - Enrichments EMEA Team

• You proactively lead across teams to define, plan, and deliver ambitious technical initiatives with high business impact.
• You provide technical vision and set architectural standards that enable long-term scalability and maintainability.
• You mentor senior engineers, empowering them to grow their careers and take ownership of critical systems.
• You communicate complex concepts clearly to diverse audiences, including engineering leadership and product partners.
• You identify systemic issues and drive improvements in reliability, performance, and developer productivity.
• You balance short-term deliverables with strategic thinking about technical debt and platform evolution.
• You collaborate effectively across organizational boundaries to align engineering efforts with company goals.
• Expand your leadership scope by influencing multiple teams and shaping company-wide technical direction.
• Elevate your impact by architecting complex, large-scale distributed systems with multiple technology stacks.
• Hone your skills leading cross-functional collaborations involving engineering, product, and operations.
• Deepen expertise in evolving operational excellence initiatives including observability, automation, and incident response.
• Grow as a mentor and technical advisor, shaping not only code but also engineering culture and processes.
• Drive architecture and design decisions on core enrichment services critical to company data infrastructure.
• Lead large, cross-team projects from inception through production, removing blockers and managing dependencies.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, influencing technical growth and increasing team effectiveness.
• Define technical standards and best practices for multi-language backend development (Go, Python, Java, Scala).
• Collaborate with product, data science, and platform teams to align technical delivery with strategic goals.
• Identify and mitigate technical debt and operational risks through proactive system improvements and automation.
• Influence capacity planning, fault tolerance strategies, and service reliability best practices.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant professional experience
• Proven track record delivering large-scale backend systems and driving cross-team engineering efforts.
• Expertise in designing and implementing reliable, scalable distributed systems using at least two of Go, Python, Java, Scala.
• Demonstrated leadership in setting technical vision and influencing engineering culture beyond your immediate team.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and leading technical discussions across organizations.
• Strong background with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and automation.
• History of driving improvements around system reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• We own data enrichment pipelines that deliver critical insights used by teams across the company.
• Our teams emphasizes technical craftsmanship, collaboration across languages and domains, and continuous improvement.
• You’ll join a culture committed to innovation, mentorship, and shared ownership with a strong focus on quality and reliability.
• We partner closely with product, infrastructure, and data science teams to solve challenging problems at large scale.
• Opportunities to lead initiatives that influence company technical strategy and operational maturity.
• Annual Leave: 20 or 26 annual leave days per annum plus an additional day for each year of service (to a max of 5).
• Private Medical Insurance- Luxmed health & dental cover for you and your dependants.
• Commuter Assistance- Up to the value of 80 PLN net a month for public transport.
• Savings Plan- Two company saving plans provided by Nationale Nederlanden: Employee Capital Plan (PPK) & Employee Saving Plan (PPO),
• QED PROGRAM- Qualtrics Engineer Development (QED) program: support, engineering learning activities up to 10% of engineering work time each quarter.
• Wellness- Up to the value of 800PLN gross per quarter can be reimbursed for a variety of wellness activities via our dedicated platform Forma,
• A choice of Multispot cards available.
• Our employee assistance program with Unum provides counselling and wellbeing support to all employees
• Experience bonus- 7000 PLN gross per annum. Qualtrics experience bonus is a program designed to provide experiences to our employees they might not otherwise have.
• Group Life & Income Protection Insurance
• Glasses/Contact lenses Reimbursement
• Free breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and drinks for everyone in the office
• Tax-deductible expenses (up to 50% depending on role)