Senior Software Architect - AI-Driven Microservices Leader

Plentific; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Plentific is seeking a Software Architect to join our engineering team in Warsaw and shape the platform's technical direction. This leadership role blends product vision with hands-on engineering and mentoring across the squad.

You will define the technical roadmap, design scalable microservices with Django/Python on Kubernetes, and drive AI-assisted development throughout the lifecycle, ensuring reliable, high-performance delivery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, focused on Python and Django.
• Hands-on experience building Django-based microservices at scale on Kubernetes.
• Experience with AI tools to assist software development and architecture writing.
• Proven Tech Lead or Software Architect with ownership of technical direction.
• Strong ability to produce technical analyses with product managers.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native infra.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Strategy
• Define and own the technical roadmap for your team, ensuring architectural decisions align with business goals and long-term platform scalability
• Guide and mentor engineers throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Act as the primary technical point of contact for your squad
• Design and evolve scalable, resilient microservices architectures using Django and Python, deployed on Kubernetes at scale
• Lead the design of APIs, data pipelines, and distributed systems with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability
• Define and enforce best practices around database design, query optimisation, and data modelling across relational databases (PostgreSQL)
• Evaluate emerging technologies and architectural patterns, making evidence-based recommendations to the broader engineering organisation
• Write well-formulated, testable, and readable code using appropriate software design patterns
• Build and maintain APIs, microservices, and data pipelines
• Write complex SQL queries and optimise database performance
• Debug and resolve issues across our applications, including production incidents
• Review, maintain, and refactor existing code to support improved or new features
• AI-Driven Development: Champion and embed AI-assisted practices across the full development lifecycle
• Delivery & Collaboration: Lead code reviews, work with product owners, engineering managers, UI designers, and engineers to produce technical specifications and project documentation
• Remove technical blockers and proactively surface risks to delivery, proposing pragmatic solutions
• Write clear technical documentation for code, algorithms, APIs, and system architecture

Skills

Python

Django

Kubernetes

AWS

AI tools

Tech leadership

Tools

Django REST Framework

PostgreSQL

Docker

Redis

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Plentific is seeking a Software Architect to join our engineering team in Warsaw and shape the platform's technical direction. This leadership role blends product vision with hands-on engineering and mentoring across the squad.

You will define the technical roadmap, design scalable microservices with Django/Python on Kubernetes, and drive AI-assisted development throughout the lifecycle, ensuring reliable, high-performance delivery.