Senior Architect & Staff Engineer — Cloud-Native Lead

HeadHR; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical coverage

Multisport

Life insurance

Stock Purchase Plan

Pension Plan

Tax relief

Flexible hours

Hybrid/Remote work

Job summary

HeadHR seeks a senior software architect to extend a mission-critical call-handling platform in Kraków. You will drive architecture, roadmap, and tech debt while refactoring and delivering hands-on across teams.

Lead with craftsmanship, mentor colleagues, and influence strategic decisions. Remote-friendly hybrid work and collaboration with North American customers are offered.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building products and driving architecture.
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in CS, SWE, Mathematics or related field.
• Hands-on expert software developer with leadership experience.
• Influence roadmap, reduce debt, and make decisions with incomplete data.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences, including VP level.
• English proficiency for North American customers.

Responsibilities

• Extend VNXT Call Handling in the Krak f3w team with mission-critical platform.
• Drive architecture and roadmap, identify opportunities and debt, refactor code.
• Mentor colleagues, coach teams, and contribute hands-on across disciplines.

Skills

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Refactoring

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Computer Science or related

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Azure

Spring Boot

Quarkus

Angular

TypeScript

Java

Kotlin

GitHub

Azure DevOps

ELK

Prometheus/Grafana

Redis

PostgreSQL

NGINX

OpenShift

RabbitMQ

GStreamer

Rust

Asterisk

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Extend VNXT Call Handling in the Kraków Emergency Call Handling team: a mission-critical platform with 99.999% availability.
• Drive architecture and roadmap, identify business opportunities and technical debt, contribute hands-on across teams, refactor code and make analytical decisions.
• Apply craftsmanship and coach or mentor colleagues. Stack: Kubernetes/Docker, Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot/Quarkus, GitHub, Azure DevOps, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana, Redis, Azure/AWS, Proxmox, OpenShift, SIP/RTP/WebRTC/MSRP, RabbitMQ, GStreamer, Rust, Asterisk, PostgreSQL, NGINX, Angular, TypeScript/JavaScript, Selenium/Playwright.

Benefits:

• Coaching and development, private medical coverage, Multisport and life insurance worth two annual incomes.
• Stock Purchase Plan with 15% discount, Pension Plan with 3.5% of gross monthly salary, IP Tax Relief, yearly increase and bonus.
• Flexible hours, usually starting 7-10; 8-hour day with 30-minute lunch break; hybrid/remote work.

Kogo poszukujemy?

Key requirements:

• 12+ years building products and driving architecture; Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics or a related field.
• Hands-on expert software developer and technical leader or key contributor, versatile across teams and independent in complex work.
• Business and analytical thinking: influence the technology roadmap, reduce technical debt, prioritize information and make decisions with incomplete data.
• Software craftsmanship, consistent refactoring, coaching and mentoring; communication with technical and non-technical audiences, including VP level.
• English skills for efficient communication with peers and North American customers.

Must have:

• Java; Kubernetes or an alternative; Docker or an alternative; AWS or Azure cloud experience or distributed systems.
• Microservices and REST API; automated testing; messaging systems; observability and monitoring; networking; Angular.

Could have:

• SIP, RTP and GStreamer.