Staff Software Engineer - Lead Cross-Team AI Platforms

Swap; Województwo małopolskie; On-site; PLN 550,000 - 624,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Private healthcare

Generous PTO

Job summary

Swap is expanding its Kraków engineering team and seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead cross‑team initiatives and own critical software delivery. You will stay hands-on in key code paths while guiding product, design, and data teams toward ambitious, measurable outcomes.

You will drive architectural direction, establish operational standards, and mentor engineers to scale reliability and performance in our e‑commerce platform.

Qualifications

• Significant experience (8+ years) building and shipping production software.
• Proven ability to lead cross-team initiatives.
• Strong architectural and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead large initiatives spanning several quarters and multiple teams.
• Write exemplar code in critical paths and set quality bar.
• Review designs to balance quality, speed, reliability, and maintainability.
• Define and uphold operational standards: monitoring, availability, scalability, security, cost.
• Lead tool evaluations and architecture migrations, with clear trade-offs.
• Leverage AI to improve efficiency while maintaining code health.
• Own business outcomes by defining success metrics and post-launch monitoring.
• Mentor engineers and participate in senior-level interviews.
• Create and improve architecture docs and runbooks.

Skills

TypeScript/JavaScript

Node.js

REST APIs

GraphQL

CI/CD

Cloud

LLMs

E-commerce

Job description

Swap is expanding its Kraków engineering team and seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead cross‑team initiatives and own critical software delivery. You will stay hands-on in key code paths while guiding product, design, and data teams toward ambitious, measurable outcomes.

You will drive architectural direction, establish operational standards, and mentor engineers to scale reliability and performance in our e‑commerce platform.