Principal Software Engineer - Fintech Platform (m/f/n)

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2 Locations
Hybrid
Expert/Leader
Logistics • Transportation
The Role
Provides cross-domain technical leadership for InPost’s fintech platform. The role owns architecture decisions across payments, merchant, and consumer platforms; translates business strategy into technical roadmaps; authors ADRs and RFCs; leads adoption of engineering patterns; develops AI-assisted engineering workflows; and mentors Staff Engineers and Engineering Managers. The position requires extensive experience in software engineering, distributed payments systems, architecture authority, production LLM systems, cloud platforms, APIs, databases, and technical communication.
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Company Description

InPost is building its own fintech platform from the ground up. It’s a large-scale, international initiative where engineers will have the opportunity to shape the architecture, build core fintech components, and create solutions designed to operate at InPost’s scale.

We’re building a lean, highly effective engineering organization in Poland, with AI-native engineering at its core. We’re looking for strong engineers who are comfortable with agentic engineering, from experienced professionals building complex systems and engineering tooling to a new generation of engineers who have embraced AI-driven development from the start of their careers.

Job Description

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

Qualifications

  • 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

Additional Information

  • 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

     

    Skills Required

    • 10+ years of software engineering experience
    • 5+ years of cross-team technical leadership or architecture authority
    • 5+ years designing distributed payments or fintech systems
    • 3+ years of agentic or LLM engineering in production
    • Deep knowledge of distributed systems architecture, including event sourcing, CQRS, domain events, and saga patterns
    • Experience designing REST, asynchronous, and event-based APIs at organizational boundaries
    • Strong understanding of database trade-offs and cloud architecture evaluation across AWS, GCP, or Azure
    • Hands-on experience with multi-agent orchestration, tool-use patterns, context management, and AI evaluation harnesses
    • Excellent technical writing for engineers and business leadership
    • English proficiency at B2 level or above
    • University degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field
    • 3+ years of platform or internal developer tooling engineering
    • 1+ years of agentic or LLM system design experience
    • PCI DSS or PSD2 architecture compliance experience
    • 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 Engineering Manager-track engineers
    • Polish language skills
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    The Company
    HQ: Kraków
    2,812 Employees
    Year Founded: 2006

    What We Do

    InPost is the most successful operator of automated parcel lockers in Europe and also the one and only company in the world that is both a heavy operational user of APM machines as well as their manufacturer. InPost Parcel Lockers revolutionized the e-commerce delivery by providing a convenient way to send, collect and return parcels whenever the customer chooses, through a network of conveniently located and easy to use terminals.It is important for us to protect your personal data, our privacy policy can be found under the link: https://inpost.pl/ochrona-danych-osobowych

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