Principal Engineer, Consumer & Merchant Architect

InPost Group; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

InPost Group, a leading European out-of-home deliveries company, seeks a Principal Engineer for the Consumer & Merchant Experience area. You will define long-term technology direction and standards, solving complex cross-team challenges while ensuring product delivery and quality across markets.

You will collaborate with senior leaders, CTO, and product teams to shape the platform, influence engineering practices, and mentor future technical leaders in a large, diverse enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing and developing large-scale distributed systems.
• 3+ years of cross-team technical impact in a senior role (Staff/Principal/Architect).
• Experience making architectural decisions with long-term impact across multiple teams.
• Strong engineering background; hands-on coding not primary.
• Experience building customer-facing products and guiding direction.
• Experience establishing engineering standards and mentoring senior engineers.
• Proficiency in leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity.
• Experience with public cloud and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong communication with engineering teams and C-level stakeholders.
• English proficiency at C1 level.

Responsibilities

• 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 technology strategy for AI.
• Lead cross-team and cross-domain technical initiatives.
• Mentor Staff Engineers and develop next-generation technical leaders.
• Support technical due diligence related to partnerships and M&A.
• Represent InPost in the engineering community through conferences and publications.
• Work with stakeholders to connect architectural direction with product needs.

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Architecture decisions

Cloud native

AI tools in development

Communication with stakeholders

English proficiency

Tools

GitHub Copilot

ChatGPT

Claude

Job description

InPost Group, a leading European out-of-home deliveries company, seeks a Principal Engineer for the Consumer & Merchant Experience area. You will define long-term technology direction and standards, solving complex cross-team challenges while ensuring product delivery and quality across markets.

You will collaborate with senior leaders, CTO, and product teams to shape the platform, influence engineering practices, and mentor future technical leaders in a large, diverse enterprise environment.