As Principal Software Engineer, you'll work directly with the Head of FinTech Engineering and business leadership, translating critical business goals - new product lines, regulatory deadlines, growth targets - into architecture decisions and roadmap input. You'll be the final word on cross-domain technical questions that no single team or Staff Engineer can resolve alone.
→ Hybrid working model: preferably 1 day per week in the Warsaw or Cracow office.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the single cross-domain technical authority, arbitrating architecture decisions across Payments Core, Merchant, and Consumer platform areas
- Partner directly with the Head of Engineering and business leadership to turn business strategy into technical roadmap input
- Author Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and RFCs for organisation-wide decisions, with reasoning accessible to both engineers and business stakeholders
- Own the agentic engineering harness at an organisational level — design, instrument, and continuously improve AI-assisted engineering workflows based on real production data
- Identify and drive the adoption or deprecation of patterns across all teams, building the case and sequencing change without direct authority
- Mentor Staff Engineers and Engineering Managers on architecture craft, technical communication, and agentic tooling
- 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years in cross-team technical leadership or architecture authority
- 5+ years designing distributed payments or fintech systems
- 3+ years of agentic/LLM engineering in production — shipped systems, not theoretical patterns
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems architecture: event sourcing, CQRS, domain events, saga pattern
- Experience designing APIs at an organisational boundary level — REST, async, and event-based contracts
- Strong grasp of database trade-offs (relational, time-series, document, ledger-style) and cloud architecture evaluation (AWS/GCP/Azure) at organisation scale
- Hands-on experience with multi-agent orchestration, tool-use patterns, context management, and evaluation harnesses for AI-assisted engineering workflows
- Excellent technical writing for mixed audiences — ADRs and RFCs that work for engineers and business leadership alike
- English proficiency at B2 or above
- University degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field
Nice to have:
- 3+ years in platform or internal developer tooling engineering
- 1+ years of agentic/LLM system design experience
- PCI DSS / PSD2 architecture compliance experience from the design phase
- BNPL or lending domain architecture experience
- Open-source contributions or external technical publishing
- Experience building or scaling an internal developer platform
- Formal mentorship of Staff-level or EM-track engineers
- Polish language skills
- Opportunity to work in a diverse, international, and cross-functional environment, along with leading experts.
- You work and learn from a senior leader and their leadership team, expanding your experience and exposure in the e-commerce and logistics industries.
- InPost is a growing company that offers its people an increasing number of opportunities in several locations in Europe.
- Fulfilling careers with a range of benefits for people and investing in providing training opportunities for their development.
- You will feel a part of the InPost community that makes an impact on sustainability, convenient deliveries, and the circular economy every day.
- Excellent working environment and flexible hours
- We offer B2B type of contract