14 hours ago
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 teams and domains.
- Shape InPost’s long-term technology strategy, target architecture, cloud journey, and legacy-systems strategy.
- Lead cross-team and cross-domain technical initiatives and guide global architectural decisions.
- Connect architectural direction with product needs and customer-facing product strategy.
- Mentor Staff Engineers and help develop future technical leaders.
- Support technical due diligence for strategic partnerships and mergers and acquisitions.
- Represent InPost in engineering communities through conferences, publications, and industry initiatives.
- Collaborate with the CTO, Senior Engineering Directors, Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers, product teams, business stakeholders, and C-level leaders.
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 long-term architectural decisions 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 with AI tools and large language models such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude, including critically evaluating and responsibly applying generated outputs.
- Experience with public cloud and cloud-native architectures.
- Strong knowledge of scalability, reliability, observability, APIs, and system integration.
- Effective communication with engineering teams and C-level stakeholders.
- Professional English proficiency at C1 level.
- Preferred experience includes logistics, e-commerce, marketplace environments, on-premises-to-cloud migrations, large-scale mobile or web applications, security and data protection, payment, notification, tracking, event-driven, or real-time systems.
- International experience, prior management experience, and cloud certifications such as GCP Professional Cloud Architect are beneficial.
- Java is the preferred backend technology, but experience with other backend ecosystems is acceptable.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work in a diverse, international, and cross-functional environment with leading experts.
- Exposure to senior leaders and leadership teams in the e-commerce and logistics industries.
- Training and development opportunities within a growing European company.
- Flexible hours and an excellent working environment.
- B2B type of contract.
- Opportunities across several locations in Europe.
- Opportunity to contribute to sustainability, convenient deliveries, and the circular economy.
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About InPost
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.