Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

What we're looking for

• 5-10+ years of experience in backend systems

• Deep backend engineering skills

• Experience with AWS/GCP

• Practical experience with CI/CD

• Solid grasp of observability and on-call practices

About the role

About the Role

We're experiencing significant growth and are looking for a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to support our rapid product growth. This is an in-person role focused on owning and evolving our backend services to create a modern, AI-native developer experience.

You will

• Partner with the Product, AI, and Operations teams to architect new features and complex agentic systems.

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs that power Kick’s core product to ensure systems are secure, well-tested and high performance.

• Make clear architectural tradeoffs that balance between platform, product and business goals.

• Design and implement distributed services to orchestrate data pipelines, automate investigations, and enable incident response at scale.

• Own operational best practices so engineers can ship multiple times a day with confidence.

• Set engineering standards for writing, communication and system design influencing how a modern AI-native product is built.

We're looking for someone with

• 5-10+ years of experience designing, building and operating production backend systems.

• Deep backend engineering skills including API design, data modeling and reasoning about distributed systems tradeoffs.

• Hands on experience running AWS/GCP with a strong understanding of how infrastructure impacts application reliability and performance.

• Practical experience with CI/CD including testing and deployment strategies.

• Solid grasp of observability and healthy on-call practices.

Bonus if you have

• Experience as an engineer at an early-stage or scaling startup.

• Exposure to modern AI/ML systems.

• Experience working on product without a product manager

Our tech

• TypeScript, React, Node.js

• AWS, Terraform

• Postgres

• OpenAI, Azure AI

• GitHub, Slack, Linear, Figma, Notion

Location

• Wroclaw, Poland, 4-5 days per week in person

• Office is located next to the Wroclaw main train station

• Candidates should be based in Wroclaw or open to relocation

What we offer

• $130,000-$190,000 USD salary + competitive equity

• $100/mo wellness and commute stipend

• Premium hardware (MacBook Pro/AirPods)

• Daily in-office lunch and dinnerWe’re building a world-class team of creative thinkers and doers from diverse backgrounds. If you’re excited about this role, even if your experience isn’t a perfect match, we want to hear from you.

Compensation & benefits

• $100/mo wellness and commute stipend

• Premium hardware (MacBook Pro/AirPods)

• Daily in-office lunch and dinner

• Benefits: 20 PTO days + 9 US holidays, tracked in Rippling