The Role
Senior Software Engineer will build and own backend-focused fullstack features across AI Retrieval, Infrastructure, or Product teams. Responsibilities include improving search/retrieval quality and latency, building scalable backend systems, contributing to embeddings/ML-powered search, collaborating cross-functionally, and shipping production-ready code in a continuous deployment environment.
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Who are we?
We're Bee Talents, an IT recruitment agency that has been helping clients from all around the world in building their technical teams since 2015. Today, we would like to invite you to participate in the recruitment process for Asana.
Asana is a leading work management platform for human + AI collaboration. Over 170,000 customers like Accenture, Amazon, Anthropic, and Suzuki rely on Asana to align teams and accelerate organizational impact. Whether it’s managing strategic initiatives, cross-functional programs, or company-wide goals, Asana helps organizations bring clarity to complexity - turning plans into action with AI working alongside teams every step of the way.
The company was founded in 2008, now has around 2,000 employees across 13 offices worldwide, and is scaling rapidly. Warsaw is one of its fastest-growing hubs, currently with ~150 people, with an ambitious goal of becoming Asana’s largest global location in the coming years. They have been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation.
At Asana, they're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve their mission.
At Asana, they're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve their mission.
Currently, they're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who:
- has around 6-12 years of commercial experience
- has experience as a Backend Engineer
- is comfortable working on large, complex product systems
- is able to make independent technical decisions and understands their impact on both product and business
-has experience in backend with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and Kafka
- has around 6-12 years of commercial experience
- has experience as a Backend Engineer
- is comfortable working on large, complex product systems
- is able to make independent technical decisions and understands their impact on both product and business
-has experience in backend with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and Kafka
-is flexible in terms of technology (Java, Go, Python, AWS, SQL/NoSQL, diverse backgrounds are welcome)
The Infrastructure and The Product team build systems end-to-end. From designing data models to implementing the subtle interaction behaviors that differentiate good software from great software. It's all about delighting users with both large new features and smaller, daily product enhancements - thanks to our continuous deployment architecture and taking care of infrastructure.
Asana’s ecosystem includes a wide range of powerful apps that extend its capabilities and integrate it seamlessly into our users’ workflows. These apps help establish Asana as the shared collaboration infrastructure our customers use to get things done, spanning the full breadth of domains and departments, enabling experts on those teams to effectively share and communicate their work to the company as a whole.
In the Infrastructure team, you won’t just code - you will be an integral part of the entire product development process, from conception to post-launch reflection!
Daily tasks:
- Building and optimizing infrastructure using Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform
- Being responsible for a broad swath of the product, focusing on creating efficient, flexible, and scalable back-end processing logic
- Collaborating with cross-functional partners in New York City while building strong relationships with your Warsaw-based peers
- Developing clean, beautiful code and leave it better than you found it
- Growing through opportunities to stretch and learn
- Being an early employee in our growing Warsaw office, contributing to a culture that keeps Asana's workplace balanced, performant, inclusive, transparent, and aligned with their values!
What you’ll need?
- 6+ years in large, well-maintained codebases building user-facing products (integration development preferred)
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform
- Excellent communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional partners (e.g. PM, design) and cross-timezone with partner teams
- Flexibility in terms of technology (Java, Go, Python, AWS, SQL/NoSQL, diverse backgrounds are welcome)
- Sound autonomous judgment when balancing moving quickly with producing quality, long-term maintainable code
- Appreciate productivity and care deeply about helping teams collaborate more effectively and efficiently, including your own
- Demonstrating curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making
- Excited to be a part of an inclusive culture where everyone brings the aspects of themselves to the workplace that they need to thrive.
Additional pluses: Experience in an Applied AI role.
What you’ll get?
- Salary of PLN 31,000 - 36,000 gross on CoE (Contract of Employment/Umowa o Pracę) with the option of 50% tax deductible costs for author’s rights usage in respect of applicable roles)
- Equity/RSU (Restricted Stock Units)
- Working in a small, cross-functional teams (6-8 people)
- Hybrid model of working (3 days per week in the Warsaw office)
- Flexibility within standard Polish working hours
- Benefits package including i. e.:
- private healthcare (LuxMed, including dental and travel coverage)
- development/career growth budget and home office setup budget
- meals (breakfast and lunch caterings) and sports subsidies (Gym/Fitness card)
- mental health support in Modern Health and Fertility healthcare and family-forming support with Carrot
- group life insurance. - MacBook with all necessary accessories - full equipment for making your job awesome!
We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That's because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don't be shy - apply today.
Let’s talk! :)
PS Recruitment stages:
0. 30-minutes initial call with Recruiter from Bee Talents.
1. 60-minutes 1st Object-Oriented Game Solving Match with Engineer from Asana.
1. 60-minutes 1st Object-Oriented Game Solving Match with Engineer from Asana.
2. 60-minutes 2nd Object-Oriented Game Solving Match with the other Engineer from Asana.
3. 120-minutes Coding interview with Asana.
4. 60-minutes System design with Asana.
4. 60-minutes System design with Asana.
5. 75-minutes Hiring Manager/HR Manager chat and decision.
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Skills Required
- 6+ years of commercial software engineering experience in production environments
- Fullstack engineering experience with a backend focus
- Professional experience with JavaScript/TypeScript (React and Node.js) or Go/Scala/Python
- Hands-on experience with search engineering using OpenSearch or ElasticSearch
- Experience with embeddings and machine learning approaches to search and retrieval
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally and across timezones
- Ability to make independent technical decisions and work on large, complex systems
- English proficiency (minimum B2/C1)
- Passion for user experience and attention to detail
- Experience in an applied AI role
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What We Do
We support IT companies, corporations and start-ups in terms of team building, developing HR marketing strategy, as well as acquiring IT specialists. We've conducted several hundred job interviews, learning how to select the best candidates, who will be able to contribute to an organization. Professionally, we value efficient communication and acting according to the GTD method the most. The experience gathered working in the event, education and IT industries has taught us how to combine and utilize available resources in order to efficiently reach goals set before us
