Principal Engineer - Consumer & Merchant Experience

• 10+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems.
• 3+ years of technical impact beyond a single team, in a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Architect or equivalent role.
• Experience making architectural decisions with long-term impact across multiple teams.
• A strong engineering background and the ability to engage in detailed technical discussions, even though regular hands-on coding will not be the primary focus of the role.
• Experience building customer-facing products and influencing their technical and product direction.
• Experience establishing engineering standards and mentoring senior engineers.
• Proficiency in leveraging AI tools and large language models (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to enhance productivity, accelerate development, and solve complex problems.
• Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated outputs and apply them responsibly within professional workflows.
• Experience working with public cloud and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong knowledge of scalability, reliability, observability, APIs and system integration.
• The ability to communicate effectively with both engineering teams and C-level stakeholders.
• Professional proficiency in English at C1 level.

Nice to have:

• Experience in logistics, e-commerce or marketplace environments.
• Experience with on-premises to cloud migrations.
• Experience designing large-scale mobile or web applications.
• Knowledge of security and data protection.
• Experience with payment, notification or tracking systems, including event-driven and real-time architectures.
• Experience working in an international environment.
• Previous experience in a managerial role.
• Cloud certifications, such as GCP Professional Cloud Architect.
• Java is the preferred backend technology; candidates from other backend ecosystems are also considered.
• Experience with mobile and web applications.

• Define architectural standards across the technology organization.
• Identify and address systemic technical challenges spanning multiple domains.
• Shape engineering principles, practices and technology standards.
• Contribute to the organization’s AI strategy.
• Lead cross-team and cross-domain technical initiatives.
• Mentor Staff Engineers and help develop the next generation of technical leaders.
• Support technical due diligence related to strategic partnerships and M&A.
• Represent InPost in the engineering community through conferences, publications and industry initiatives.
• Work with technical and business stakeholders to connect architectural direction with product needs.