Principal Backend Engineer — Cloud-Native, Poland Remote

Turnitin; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 308,000 - 513,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Health and wellness programs

Education reimbursement

Job summary

Turnitin, a global education technology company, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape the technical direction of core platform capabilities used across Turnitin products. This remote-friendly, Poland-based role sits in our Shared Services team and focuses on backend, cloud-native architectures, and large-scale distributed systems.

You will design and build scalable backend services in Java on AWS, mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with product teams to

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating large-scale backend systems.
• Strong expertise in Java and modern cloud technologies.
• Experience with AWS serverless services and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of shared backend services and platform capabilities.
• Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy across multiple teams.
• Build scalable, highly available cloud-native solutions using Java and AWS technologies.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence throughout the organization.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, and engineering teams to solve complex technical challenges.
• Champion best practices in software quality, performance, reliability, and security.

Skills

Java

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Backend development

Cloud-native

Architecture

Mentoring

Collaboration

Communication

Tools

AWS Lambda

DynamoDB

API Gateway

SQS

SNS

EventBridge

Kubernetes

Job description

Turnitin, a global education technology company, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape the technical direction of core platform capabilities used across Turnitin products. This remote-friendly, Poland-based role sits in our Shared Services team and focuses on backend, cloud-native architectures, and large-scale distributed systems.

You will design and build scalable backend services in Java on AWS, mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with product teams to