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

InPost; Województwo mazowieckie; Hybrid; PLN 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model (1 day/week in WAW/K

B2B contract

International environment

Job summary

InPost Pay is seeking a Staff Engineer to define the technical direction for Payments Core, Merchant, or Consumer platforms, enabling scalable fintech solutions within a hybrid Poland-based engineering team. You will own architectural decisions, ADRs/RFCs, and drive agentic engineering maturity across multiple squads, collaborating with product strategy and architecture standards.

This role offers hybrid work (1 day per week in Warsaw or Krakow) and a path to influence engineering at scale in

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering
• 3+ years in cross-team technical leadership or architecture authority
• Hands-on with multiple tech stacks and backend focus
• Experience designing APIs at service-boundary level
• Knowledge of LLM tool-use patterns is a plus

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain backend architecture across your area
• Author ADRs and RFCs to document decisions
• Evaluate database and cloud service trade-offs for financial data
• Own evolution of agentic development harness with data
• Mentor staff-track engineers through reviews and technical writing feedback
• Provide input into product strategy and governance

Skills

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

APIs design

ADRs/RFCs

Agentic engineering

Tools

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

Company Description

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.

Job Description

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

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 andexpertise 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
• Polish language skills

Additional Information

• 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