Software Engineer II

Quick Facts

• Title: Software Engineer II

• Location/Hours: Poland; Central European Time (CET) hours

• Teams: Platform organization, either Identity & Access Management (IAM) or API

• Compensation: 5,300–6,600 USD per month

Description

You’ll design, develop, and test features across the application stack, taking ownership of scalable, reliable components that deliver customer value. You’ll either work on IAM (authentication/authorization/access management, including Keycloak) or on the backend API layer with a focus on performance and fast, reliable user experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test features across the application stack

• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to translate customer problems into technical solutions

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

• Participate in code reviews to uphold engineering quality and share knowledge

• Deploy small, incremental improvements to production with confidence and ownership

• Improve CI/CD workflows and automated testing practices

• Reduce friction in local development, debugging, and deployment processes

• Use data and metrics to inform implementation decisions and measure impact

• Rotate across backend, frontend, and mobile technologies

• Investigate CI/CD job logs and resolve flaky tests to improve team efficiency

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience

• 2–4 years of professional software engineering experience

• Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Go, Python, Java, TypeScript, Ruby)

• Comfortable becoming productive in unfamiliar stacks; polyglot engineer

• Hands-on experience reading and debugging CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

• Experience with at least one test framework, including investigating and fixing flaky tests

• Familiarity with Git and cloud environments (AWS)

• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to improve workflows, streamline execution, or enhance outputs

Benefits

• Paid holidays and flexible scheduled time off

• MacBook setup plus a $500 workspace stipend

• Equity in a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier VCs

• Innovation-focused culture and career growth

• CET hours to support a balanced schedule for the Poland-based team