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

InPost; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Training opportunities

Diverse international environment

Job summary

InPost is seeking a Staff Engineer to define the technical direction for Payments Core, Merchant, or Consumer platforms within the FinTech Platform team. You will drive architecture clarity, engineering standards, and cross-team leadership to evolve our platform in a data-driven way.

You will own long-term technology decisions and serve as the throughline between engineering, product strategy, and architecture standards, while mentoring other engineers and influencing adoption of patterns across

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with leadership experience.
• 2+ years in cross-team technical leadership or architecture authority.
• 3+ years designing distributed payments or fintech systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the backend architecture for your area, including domain boundaries, event contracts, and data consistency models across teams.
• Publish Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and RFCs to document decisions and trade-offs.
• Evaluate technology choices: databases, cloud services, messaging topology, and consistency models for financial data.
• Lead the evolution of the agentic development harness with instrumentation and data-driven improvements.
• Drive broad technical changes and build cases for adoption across teams without direct authority.
• Provide input into product strategy and mentor Staff-track engineers through reviews and guidance.

Skills

Software engineering

Cross-team leadership

Architecture authority

Distributed payments

Backend

Cloud & databases

Tools

REST APIs

Event-driven

AWS/GCP/Azure

ADR/RFC tooling

Job description

Company Description

InPost Groupis an innovative European out of home deliveries company, revolutionizing the way parcels are delivered to customers. With operations across several countries, our network of intelligent lockers provides customers with a fast, convenient, and secure delivery option. InPost Group is a publicly traded company, with a market capitalization of about $5 billion as of March 2023. With over10,000 people worldwide, InPost Group is one of the largest out of home delivery providers in Europe, committed to providing sustainable and efficient delivery solutions to meet the evolving needs of customers in today's rapidly changing landscape.

Company Description

InPost Groupis an innovative European out of home deliveries company, revolutionizing the way parcels are delivered to customers. With operations across several countries, our network of intelligent lockers provides customers with a fast, convenient, and secure delivery option. InPost Group is a publicly traded company, with a market capitalization of about $5 billion as of March 2023. With over10,000 people worldwide, InPost Group is one of the largest out of home delivery providers in Europe, committed to providing sustainable and efficient delivery solutions to meet the evolving needs of customers in today's rapidly changing landscape.

We are a team that builds the best FMCG e-commerce in Poland.

We already have over 300,000 products in our offer, we work with over 300 sellers, and our mobile application has already been downloaded by almost 1.5 million users in Poland. Due to the fact that our product consists of many elements that must work together efficiently and be managed effectively, we are looking for experienced consumer-focused (Web / Mobile App products) engineering leaders to join us in that journey - heavily influence our future platform build, improve processes and help us deliver best customer experience in the market across all types of devices.

Job Description

InPost's FinTech Platform team 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 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 scaleOpen-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