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Staff Engineer
  • Warsaw
Staff Engineer
Warszawa, Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Polska
The Stepstone Group Polska sp. z o.o.
4. 10. 2025
Informacje o stanowisku

technologies-expected :


  • Java

about-project :


  • Join our team and you’ll be responsible for building a state-of-the-art platform that powers scalable, event-driven recruiter facing systems.
  • Working in the B2B department, you will design and evolve architectures that integrate complex dependencies, ensure reliability, and deliver high-quality solutions both to our internal and external customers.
  • By joining our team, you will be playing a vital role as together we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.

responsibilities :


  • As a Staff Engineer you’ll be responsible for:
  • Architectural Leadership
  • - Define and evolve system architectures, applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to ensure scalability, resilience, and adaptability.
  • - Own and drive architectural decisions across teams, ensuring alignment with long-term business strategy and technical vision.
  • - Evaluate dependencies (internal and external) and design robust integration strategies, including API contracts and data flow ownership.
  • Analytics & Insight
  • - Provide engineering insight and architectural trade-off analysis for Engineering Directors and VPs of Engineering.
  • - Assess performance, scalability, and cost through data-driven evaluations of systems, dependencies, and cloud infrastructure.
  • - Develop and maintain architectural dashboards/metrics that track technical debt, dependency health, and system performance.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • - Partner with Engineering Managers and Product Managers to align technical roadmaps with business outcomes.
  • - Influence product planning with architectural foresight, identifying risks and opportunities in dependency management and analytics.
  • - Recommend and validate toolset and framework selections based on system needs, operational constraints, and team capabilities.
  • Mentorship & Technical Excellence
  • - Mentor engineers on architectural thinking, dependency management, and system observability.
  • - Lead and participate in design and code reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices in architecture, testing, and integration.
  • - Promote a culture of analytical decision-making and continuous improvement.
  • Execution & Reliability
  • - Oversee the design, implementation, and monitoring of critical systems and APIs, with a focus on inter-system dependencies.
  • - Drive cloud optimization strategies (performance vs. cost), container orchestration, and dependency resilience.
  • - Ensure product stability and reliability through structured test strategies (Test Pyramid: unit, integration, E2E).

requirements-expected :


  • Java & Frameworks:
  • - Expert-level in Java (17+), JVM internals, concurrency, performance tuning, memory management.
  • - Advanced proficiency with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and reactive programming models.
  • - Strong grasp of design patterns, functional programming, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
  • Event-Driven Systems (Kafka):
  • - Deep knowledge of Kafka architecture: producers, consumers, partitions, replication, and retention.
  • - Experience designing fault-tolerant event-driven architectures.
  • - Strong understanding of stream processing.
  • - Skilled in schema management (Avro, Protobuf, JSON Schema) and schema registry strategies.
  • - Expertise in handling event ordering, idempotency, and exactly-once semantics.
  • Cloud & Infrastructure (AWS):
  • - Proficiency in AWS core services: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudWatch.
  • - Strong experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS/EKS).
  • - Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation).
  • - Scaling strategies, observability (CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana).

offered :


  • Medical and dental care
  • Life insurance
  • Benefit platform budget
  • Employee Referral Programme
  • Hackathons, Knowledge Sharing Hours
  • In-house projects
  • Events and integration parties
  • Charity initiatives, 2 extra volunteer days
  • English/German lessons
  • Game room and chillout zone

benefits :


  • private medical care
  • life insurance
  • remote work opportunities
  • flexible working time
  • integration events
  • dental care
  • corporate library
  • no dress code
  • video games at work
  • parking space for employees
  • leisure zone
  • redeployment package
  • employee referral program
  • charity initiatives
  • Hackathons, Knowledge Sharing Hours
  • in-house projects

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