Senior Backend Engineer: Scale Distributed Systems & AI

Cavendish Professionals; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 210,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Cavendish Professionals is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for its Warsaw engineering team. You will build and scale high-performance backend services and distributed systems, taking ownership of features from design through production.

Ideal candidates have experience with Kafka, Kubernetes, microservices, and languages like Ruby, Elixir, or TypeScript. AI tooling experience is a plus in this role.

Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems and scalable architectures.
• Kafka/event-driven architecture experience.
• Kubernetes and microservices knowledge.
• Proficiency in Ruby, Elixir or TypeScript.
• Interest in AI coding tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale high-performance backend services and distributed systems.
• Take ownership of features from design through to production.
• Work with event-driven architectures, Kafka and microservices.
• Develop within a Kubernetes/cloud-based environment.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams.
• Use modern AI development tools as part of the engineering workflow.

Skills

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Ownership

Product mindset

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

AI tools

Ruby

Elixir

TypeScript

Job description

Cavendish Professionals is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for its Warsaw engineering team. You will build and scale high-performance backend services and distributed systems, taking ownership of features from design through production.

Ideal candidates have experience with Kafka, Kubernetes, microservices, and languages like Ruby, Elixir, or TypeScript. AI tooling experience is a plus in this role.