Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Fintech Engineering (m/f/n)

InPost Group; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Diverse international environment

Training opportunities

Flexible hours

B2B contract

Job summary

InPost Group is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Backend for Fintech Engineering to define technical direction across Payments Core, Merchant, or Consumer domains. You will architect backend systems, author ADRs/RFCs, and guide cross-team engineers while leveraging agentic engineering practices in a data-driven way.

The role requires hands-on fintech backend expertise, 8+ years in software engineering with leadership experience, and fluency in English.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years in cross-team technical leadership or architecture authority
• 3+ years designing distributed payments or fintech systems
• Hands-on experience with multiple tech stacks and backend
• Solid grounding in distributed systems architecture - event sourcing, CQRS, domain events, saga pattern
• Experience designing APIs at service-boundary level - REST, async, and event-based contracts
• Comfort with database trade-off reasoning (relational, time-series, document, ledger-style) and cloud architecture evaluation (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Experience designing or evolving an agentic engineering harness — instrumentation, adoption measurement, iteration
• Working knowledge of LLM tool-use patterns and context management in engineering workflows
• Excellent technical writing - ADRs, RFCs, and design docs for multiple audiences
• English proficiency at B2 or above

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the backend technical architecture for your area: domain boundaries, event contracts, state machine patterns, data consistency models, and cross-service API design across multiple teams
• Author Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and RFCs, facilitating technical decision-making across teams with documented reasoning and clear trade-off analysis
• Evaluate and decide on fundamental technology trade-offs: database selection, cloud services, message broker topology, and consistency models appropriate for financial data
• Own the evolution of the agentic development harness -instrument it, measure adoption and friction, and drive improvements with data
• Drive org-wide technical change: identify patterns to adopt or deprecate broadly, build the case, and see adoption through across teams without direct authority
• Provide technical input into product strategy; mentor Staff-track engineers through design reviews, pairing, and technical writing feedback

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Event sourcing

CQRS

Domain events

Saga pattern

API design (REST/async/event)

Cloud architecture (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Agentic engineering

LLM tooling & context

Technical writing

English (B2+)

Tools

Kafka

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Fintech Engineering (m/f/n)

• Full-time

InPost is building its own fintech platform from the ground up. It’s a large-scale, international initiative where engineers will have the opportunity to shape the architecture, build core fintech components, and create solutions designed to operate at InPost’s scale.

We’re building a lean, highly effective engineering organization in Poland, with AI-native engineering at its core. We’re looking for strong engineers who are comfortable with agentic engineering, from experienced professionals building complex systems and engineering tooling to a new generation of engineers who have embraced AI-driven development from the start of their careers.

InPost Pay is looking for a Staff Engineer to define the technical direction for one of our platform areas - Payments Core, Merchant, or Consumer. You'll multiply team output through architecture clarity, engineering standards, and cross-team technical leadership, while helping evolve our agentic engineering harness in a data-driven way.

You'll own the evolution of fundamental technology decisions across your area - ensuring they're sound, defensible, and viable for the long term - and act as the technical throughline between engineering teams, product strategy, and the organisation's wider architecture standards.

Hybrid working model: preferably 1 day per week in the Warsaw or Cracow office.

Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain the backend technical architecture for your area: domain boundaries, event contracts, state machine patterns, data consistency models, and cross-service API design across multiple teams
• Author Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and RFCs, facilitating technical decision-making across teams with documented reasoning and clear trade-off analysis
• Evaluate and decide on fundamental technology trade-offs: database selection, cloud services, message broker topology, and consistency models appropriate for financial data
• Own the evolution of the agentic development harness -instrument it, measure adoption and friction, and drive improvements with data
• Drive org-wide technical change: identify patterns to adopt or deprecate broadly, build the case, and see adoption through across teams without direct authority
• Provide technical input into product strategy; mentor Staff-track engineers through design reviews, pairing, and technical writing feedback
  • 8+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years in cross-team technical leadership or architecture authority
  • 3+ years designing distributed payments or fintech systems
  • Hands-on experience with multiple tech stacks and expertise in backend
  • Solid grounding in distributed systems architecture -event sourcing, CQRS, domain events, saga pattern -and state machine / financial entity lifecycle design
  • Experience designing APIs at service-boundary level -REST, async, and event-based contracts
  • Comfort with database trade-off reasoning (relational, time-series, document, ledger-style) and cloud architecture evaluation (AWS/GCP/Azure)
  • Experience designing or evolving an agentic engineering harness — instrumentation, adoption measurement, iteration
  • Working knowledge of LLM tool-use patterns and context management in engineering workflows
  • Excellent technical writing -ADRs, RFCs, and design docs for multiple audiences
  • English proficiency at B2 or above

Nice to have:

• 2+ years in platform or internal developer tooling engineering
• 1+ years of agentic/LLM system design experience
• 2+ years in BNPL or lending domain architecture
• PCI DSS / PSD2 architecture compliance experience from the design phase
• Kafka or equivalent streaming architecture experience at scale
• Open-source contributions or technical publishing
• Opportunity to work in a diverse, international and cross-functional environment, along with leading experts.
• You work and learn from a senior leader and their leadership team, expanding your experience and exposure in the e-commerce and logistics industries.
• InPost is a growing company that offers its people an increasing number of opportunities in several locations in Europe.
• Fulfilling careers with a range of benefits for people and investing in providing training opportunities for their development.
• You will feel a part of the InPost community that makes an impact on sustainability, convenient deliveries, and the circular economy every day.
• Excellent working environment and flexible hours
• We offer B2B type of contract