InPost

Principal Engineer

InPost
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Remote, Poland or Warsaw, PolandStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define architectural standards, engineering principles, practices, and technology standards across the organization.
  • Identify and address systemic technical challenges spanning multiple domains and teams.
  • Shape the target architecture, technology roadmap, cloud journey, and legacy-systems strategy.
  • Lead cross-team and cross-domain technical initiatives and make long-term architectural decisions.
  • Contribute to the organization’s technology strategy for AI.
  • Mentor Staff Engineers and help develop the next generation of technical leaders.
  • Support technical due diligence related to strategic partnerships and mergers and acquisitions.
  • Work with technical and business stakeholders, including C-level leaders, to connect architecture with product needs.
  • Represent InPost through conferences, publications, and industry initiatives.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems.
  • 3+ years of technical impact beyond a single team in a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Architect, or equivalent role.
  • Experience making architectural decisions with long-term impact across multiple teams.
  • Strong engineering background with the ability to engage in detailed technical discussions, although regular hands-on coding is not the primary focus.
  • Experience building customer-facing products and influencing their technical and product direction.
  • Experience establishing engineering standards and mentoring senior engineers.
  • Proficiency using AI tools and large language models such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude, with the ability to critically evaluate and responsibly apply generated outputs.
  • Experience with public cloud and cloud-native architectures, scalability, reliability, observability, APIs, and system integration.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with engineering teams and C-level stakeholders.
  • Professional English proficiency at C1 level.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience in logistics, e-commerce, marketplace, mobile or web applications, cloud migrations, payment, notification or tracking systems, event-driven or real-time architectures, international environments, managerial roles, and cloud certifications such as GCP Professional Cloud Architect.
  • Knowledge of security and data protection is preferred.
  • Java is the preferred backend technology, though candidates from other backend ecosystems are considered.

Benefits

  • Diverse, international, and cross-functional working environment with leading experts.
  • Opportunity to work and learn from senior leaders and their leadership teams, with exposure to e-commerce and logistics.
  • Training and development opportunities with career growth across multiple European locations.
  • Flexible hours and an excellent working environment.
  • B2B type of contract.
  • Opportunity to contribute to sustainability, convenient deliveries, and the circular economy.
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About InPost

5,001-10,000 employees

InPost is a public logistics company listed on Euronext Amsterdam that builds and operates an out-of-home parcel delivery network for e-commerce. Its network includes more than 50,000 out-of-home pick-up points, including over 27,000 parcel lockers, plus to-door courier and fulfillment services for online merchants across Poland, the UK, Italy, Iberia, France and Benelux. Headquartered in Luxembourg, it acquired French operator Mondial Relay in 2021.

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