Staff Software Engineer - AI-Driven Platform (Hybrid)

Planet Shared Services Centre Sp z.o.o.; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Planet is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to raise the engineering bar across the domain that clears, settles, funds and reports on the transactions Planet processes. It is a hands-on, cross-team role reporting to the Director of Software Engineering and collaborating with Principal Engineers to shape technical strategy.

Expect roughly half time hands-on work, with a focus on stability, observability and safe, incremental evolution of a large, multi-layer platform.

Qualifications

• Grounded in strong software engineering fundamentals, with real experience running systems in production.
• Mastery of object-oriented programming, design patterns, relational databases and event-driven architectures.
• Java is a plus, but fundamentals matter more than any language.
• AI-native to the core. Agents do the building; you make it excellent. You have already taken a team on that journey, and you are excited to take a whole domain further.
• Calm under pressure, with solid experience in incidents, observability and designing for failure.
• At ease with complexity and mature systems. You can work out how a layered platform really fits together, and you respect what it does well while you improve it.
• Collaborative by nature. You make the people around you better, and you communicate clearly in writing and in person, in English, across distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the move to agentic development. Establish the domain's framework for agentic engineering and guide teams in its use.
• Strengthen the most impactful work by pairing on hard problems and building shared understanding.
• Shape the platform's evolution by mapping behavior of a large system and evolving it in safe, incremental steps.
• Keep the platform stable by supporting incidents and driving a continuous improvement loop.
• Raise engineering standards by championing modern practices in testing, review, delivery and observability.
• Bridge operations and strategy by aligning with product and technical leadership on high-value problems.

Skills

OOP

Design patterns

Relational DBs

Event-driven arch

Java

Observability

Incident handling

English fluency

Job description

Planet is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to raise the engineering bar across the domain that clears, settles, funds and reports on the transactions Planet processes. It is a hands-on, cross-team role reporting to the Director of Software Engineering and collaborating with Principal Engineers to shape technical strategy.

Expect roughly half time hands-on work, with a focus on stability, observability and safe, incremental evolution of a large, multi-layer platform.