Senior Software Engineer (Java/Kotlin)

Allegro; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 19,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Well-located offices with modern tools

MacBook Pro / Dell workstation

Fringe benefits cafeteria plan

English classes

Training budget & hackathons

Volunteer day

Social events

Job summary

Allegro in Warsaw seeks a backend engineer to design and build high-throughput services in Kotlin/Java, focusing on API management, security, and data pipelines. You will collaborate with Data Scientists and ML Engineers to automate key processes and decisions.

Join a hybrid team with flexible hours, remote days, and a rich benefits package including English classes, training budgets, and volunteering opportunities.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience coding in Kotlin or Java, with eagerness to master Kotlin for new services.
• Value high-quality code and engineering best practices for massive-scale distributed systems.
• Excited to explore AI in daily work and solve complex challenges.

Responsibilities

• Build tools for API management, key and resource access control, and abuse detection to ensure platform compliance.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and ML Engineers to automate decisions and processes.
• Develop high-performance backend microservices and leverage GCP data pipelines in a scalable way.

Skills

Kotlin/Java

AI tooling

Polish & English

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

Consul

BigQuery

Airflow

Job description

• Low Latency & Massive Scale: Work on high-throughput systems handling massive API traffic with a strict 50 ms time budget. Expect deep technical challenges.
• API Security & Abuse Detection: Design and build essential tools for API management, key and resource access control, continuous abusive traffic detection, and mitigation to ensure platform compliance.
• Modern Tech Stack & Big Data: Develop high-performance backend microservices using Kotlin and Java while leveraging GCP big data pipelines (BigQuery, Airflow) and advanced AI tools.

Join the API Management team! You will have the opportunity to build tools that protect our platform's API. The team collaborates closely with Data Scientists and ML Engineers to automate key processes and decision-making. You can expect high-performance technical challenges, an emphasis on engineering best practices, continuous opportunities to expand your knowledge, and a supportive, collaborative atmosphere.

Important things for you:

• Flexible working hours in the hybrid model (4/1) - working hours start between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. We also have 30 days of occasional remote work.
• The salary range for this position depending on the skill set is as follows (contract of employment, tax-deductible cost):
• PLN 18 850 - 25 900
• Annual bonus based on your annual performance and company results.
• Long-term discretionary incentive plan based on Allegro.eu shares (restricted stock units).
• Our team is based in Warsaw.

We are looking for people who:

• Have commercial experience coding in Kotlin or Java (with an eagerness to master Kotlin for our new services);
• Value high-quality code and engineering best practices to solve complex challenges in massive-scale distributed systems;
• Are excited to find new ways of using AI in daily work;
• Embrace a growth mindset, value team stability, and are open to occasionally picking up frontend tasks (React is a nice-to-have);
• Communicate effectively in Polish and English (at least a B2 level).

What's in it for you:

• Well-located offices (with e.g. fully equipped kitchens, bicycle parking, terraces full of greenery) and excellent work tools (e.g., raised desks, ergonomic chairs, interactive conference rooms).
• A 16\" or 14\" MacBook Pro or corresponding Dell with Windows (if you don't like Macs) and all the necessary accessories.
• A wide selection of fringe benefits in a cafeteria plan - you choose what you like (e.g., medical, sports or lunch packages, insurance, purchase vouchers).
• English classes that we pay for related to the specific nature of your job.
• A training budget, inter-team tourism (see more here), hackathons, and an internal learning platform where you will find multiple trainings.
• An additional day off for volunteering, which you can use alone, with a team, or with a larger group of people connected by a common goal.
• Social events for Allegro people - Spin Kilometers, Family Day, Fat Thursday, Advent of Code, and many other occasions we enjoy.

#goodtobehere means that:

• You will join a team you can count on - we work with top-class specialists who have knowledge- and experience-sharing in their DNA.
• You will love our level of autonomy in team organization, the space for continuous development, and the opportunity to try new things. You get to choose which technology solves the problem and you are responsible for what you create.
• You will value our Developer Experience and the full platform of tools and technologies that make creating software easier. We rely on an internal ecosystem based on self-service and widely used tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub, and GitHub Actions. Thanks to this, you can contribute to Allegro from your very first days on the job.
• You will be equipped with modern AI tools to automate repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on developing new services and refining existing ones (also leveraging AI support).
• You will create solutions that will be used (and loved!) by your friends, family and millions of our customers.
• You will meet the Allegro Scale, which starts with over 1000 microservices, an open-source data bus (Hermes) with 300K+ rps, a Service Mesh with 1M+ rps, tens of petabytes of data, and production-used machine learning.
• You will become part of Allegro Tech - we speak at industry conferences, cooperate with tech communities, run our own blog (it's been over 10 years!), record podcasts, lead guilds, and we organize our own internal conference - the Allegro Tech Meeting. We create solutions we love (and can) to talk about!