Engineering Lead — AI & Cloud-Native DevOps

ITDS; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

ITDS in Kraków seeks an Engineering Lead to drive production AI services, design agentic systems, and optimize cloud-native DevOps pipelines. You will lead the development, deployment, and maintenance of AI workloads, shaping scalable solutions for real-world problems.

You will mentor teams, collaborate with product owners, and implement responsible AI practices with strong observability and risk controls. Fluency in English and a track record in Java/Spring, React, and modern cloud platforms

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with a focus on AI or cloud-native solutions.
• Strong proficiency in Java/Spring Boot, including REST APIs, security, and performance tuning.
• Solid React development skills and API integration experience.
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and Redis databases.
• Experience with messaging/streaming platforms like Kafka or equivalent.
• Proven expertise engineering prompts for production LLM applications and understanding of tokenization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment, and maintenance of production AI services.
• Design, optimize, and iterate prompts for LLM use cases including instruction following and code generation.
• Build and manage prompt libraries with versioning strategies.
• Collaborate with product and domain teams to translate needs into prompt specs and AI workflows.
• Architect and implement agentic AI systems (autonomous agents, multi-agent pipelines, tool-use workflows).
• Enhance observability of LLM operations (logging, tracing, evaluation pipelines, safety guardrails).
• Provide expertise on responsible AI deployment with human-in-the-loop and risk mitigation.

Skills

Java / Spring Boot

React

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

Prompt engineering

Prompt evaluation

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

AWS / GCP / Azure

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Helm

Job description

ITDS in Kraków seeks an Engineering Lead to drive production AI services, design agentic systems, and optimize cloud-native DevOps pipelines. You will lead the development, deployment, and maintenance of AI workloads, shaping scalable solutions for real-world problems.

You will mentor teams, collaborate with product owners, and implement responsible AI practices with strong observability and risk controls. Fluency in English and a track record in Java/Spring, React, and modern cloud platforms