Tasks:
- 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.
- Set engineering standards for writing, communication and system design influencing how a modern AI-native product is built.
Requirements:
- 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
The 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
Offers: $130,000-$190,000 USD salary + competitive equity
$100/mo wellness and commute stipend
Premium hardware (MacBook Pro/AirPods)
Daily in-office lunch and dinner