Staff Software Engineer

Ingrid ⚫️; Wrocław; On-site; PLN 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High trust & transparency environment

Competitive market pay

Hack culture with regular hackathons

Modern equipment and tools

Office in Wrocław with snacks and coffee

Job summary

A leading European startup is seeking a Staff Engineer to tackle high-impact problems in delivery optimisation. This role involves driving company-wide initiatives, providing technical leadership, and mentoring senior engineers. Candidates should have 8-11+ years of experience, extensive knowledge in cloud platforms, distributed systems, and scaling trade-offs. The company offers competitive pay, a flexible work environment, and opportunities for meaningful work that challenges the industry.

Qualifications

• 8–11+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent track record.
• Strong track record delivering 6+ month initiatives.
• Proven ability to mentor and coach senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive company-wide initiatives to improve developer experience.
• Lead mission-critical projects balancing speed and quality.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews.

Skills

System design understanding

Cloud platforms experience (GCP, AWS, Azure)

Kubernetes knowledge

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)

Linux/Unix systems fundamentals

Observability (metrics, logs, traces)

Security and cloud architecture principles

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Grafana

Prometheus

Docker

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

About Us

Ingrid is a leading European startup that solves delivery optimisation for retailers and customers. We partner with major carriers, cart platforms and brands you surely have heard of (DHL, InPost, Shopify, Paul Smith, NA‑KD) – our customers love us.

About You

You’re a Staff Engineer who thrives on high‑ambiguity, high‑impact problems. You combine deep technical judgment with the ability to lead through influence.

You raise the bar for engineering quality, help teams align on architectural direction, and unblock delivery across domains. You’re comfortable being accountable for critical parts of the system, and you care about long‑term maintainability, reliability, cost efficiency, and security.

Qualification

• 8–11+ years of software engineering experience (or equivalent track record of impact)


• Strong track record delivering 6+ month initiatives with broad product and technical impact


• Expertise in distributed systems design and development


• Proven ability to mentor and coach senior engineers and shape engineering standards by example


• Excellent communication skills for driving alignment across engineering, product, and other stakeholders

Requirements

• Deep understanding of system design, scalability, and reliability trade‑offs


• Strong hands‑on experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)


• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and modern container platforms


• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)


• Solid understanding of CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)


• Strong fundamentals in Linux/Unix systems and networking


• Experience with observability (metrics, logs, traces) and tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry)


• Strong understanding of security and cloud architecture principles

Responsibilities

• Own and drive company‑wide, high‑leverage initiatives that improve developer experience and enable new business opportunities


• Lead high‑ambiguity, mission‑critical projects and define execution paths that balance speed, quality, and long‑term sustainability


• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, RFCs, and design documents, driving alignment across teams


• Be a technical subject‑matter expert in one or more key domains and set a strong engineering quality bar


• Coach and mentor senior engineers, helping grow technical leadership across the organization


• Partner with engineering and product leaders to identify and remove systemic delivery blockers

Tech Stack

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, Sentry, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker

What We Offer

• High trust & transparency, low control environment


• Competitive market pay and benefits (depending on the location)


• Meaningful work every single day that challenges the industry and is just fun


• Hack culture and regular hackathons, retreats & offsites (travel involved)


• Partnering with best in class engineering, product and commercial folks that you can learn from


• Modern equipment, tools and premium AI licences


• Freedom of how you organise your work, overlap with work hours (9‑17 CET) is required for effective real‑time collaboration


• Two offices - Stockholm and Wroclaw with snacks and good coffee