Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer
Location / hybrid: Katowice (2-3 days onsite per week)
Type of contract: UoP or B2B
Salary: 26 000 – 30 000 PLN per month / B2B: 170 - 200 PLN / h
Employer: international sport betting company

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a senior individual contributor within the technology organization and serves as a technical leader across multiple engineering domains

• Design and engineer new technical solutions and features

• Active approach in solving any production issues and incidents

• Lead other engineers to independence regarding technical solution

• Drive modernisation of systems

• Ensure high-quality data integration

• Ensure high quality in delivery of new features and technical solutions

• Ensure zero downtime releases and support after production release

• Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and technical excellence

• Liaising with other key engineers, product managers, business partners and stakeholders

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience (backend or fullstack)

• Golang coding experience or experience in more than one popular backend language

• Experience with architecture of large-scale distributed systems.

• Proven experience building high-traffic platforms

• Strong understanding of asynchronous communication and Microservice

• Strong understanding of Cloud-native architectures and operational excellence

• Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

• Willingness to use/learn Golang, MongoDB, NATS / NSQ / Kafka, AWS

• Fluent in English and Polish