Lead Backend engineer

🏢 Summary: Fractional, fully remote Senior Delivery / Project Manager role leading several enterprise AI-platform customer implementations from requirements and configuration through MVP, UAT, production and BAU transition. The role focuses on coordinating customers, product and engineering teams; managing dependencies and blockers; and providing technical delivery leadership around APIs, integrations, environments and deployments. Compensation is 120–150 PLN/hour plus VAT on a B2B contract. 🗂️ Requirements: Enterprise software or SaaS implementation delivery experience, End-to-end project or delivery management across customer implementation lifecycles, Requirements and configuration gathering, MVP/pilot planning and UAT coordination, Risk, issue and dependency management, Coordination across customer, product and engineering teams, Management of multiple parallel implementations, Customer-facing communication with senior and technical stakeholders, Remote delivery across distributed teams and time zones, Technical literacy in APIs, integrations, environments and deployment dependencies, Understanding of technical constraints and dependencies, Experience in fast-paced delivery environments, Proactive blocker removal, decision-driving and expectation-setting, Written and spoken English 📃 Skills: SaaS, APIs, Integrations, UAT, MVP, Deployments, Environments, Configuration, AI 🏢 Description: In Short • 100% remote or work from one of two offices • 120–150 PLN/h + VAT • B2B contract Your Daily Missions • Coordinate customer implementations end to end — from requirements gathering and initial configuration through MVP/pilot, UAT, production and transition to BAU. • Manage several customer implementations in parallel while maintaining clear priorities, milestones and ownership. • Gather and structure customer requirements, configuration needs and implementation dependencies. • Plan MVPs and pilots with customer, product and engineering teams. • Plan and coordinate UAT, ensuring customers and internal teams are prepared and blockers are addressed quickly. • Coordinate production readiness, go-live activities and transition into ongoing BAU operations. • Identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies and external blockers throughout the implementation lifecycle. • Work closely with product and engineering teams to understand technical dependencies and translate them into clear customer actions and expectations. • Hold effective customer conversations around APIs, integrations, environments and deployment dependencies. • Drive customer decisions and inputs required to keep fast-moving implementations on track. • Set clear expectations around scope, timelines, responsibilities and dependencies. • Adapt delivery plans as implementation priorities and external dependencies change. • Coordinate effectively across distributed teams and time zones. • Continuously improve the delivery approach for short, repeatable implementation cycles. The Essentials We’re Seeking • Strong experience delivering enterprise software or SaaS implementations, ideally within a Professional Services environment. • Proven project or delivery management experience across the complete customer implementation lifecycle. • Hands-on experience with customer requirements and configuration gathering, MVP/pilot planning and UAT coordination. • Strong risk, issue and dependency management skills. • Experience coordinating across customer, product and engineering teams. • Ability to successfully manage multiple implementations running in parallel. • Strong customer-facing communication skills and confidence working with senior and technical stakeholders. • Experience delivering projects remotely across distributed teams and multiple time zones. • Sufficient technical literacy to discuss APIs, integrations, environments and deployment dependencies with customers and engineers. • Ability to understand technical constraints and dependencies without relying on engineering teams to translate every detail. • Experience working in a fast delivery environment where engineering execution is rapid and customer inputs or external dependencies often determine the critical path. • A proactive approach to removing blockers, driving decisions and setting expectations rather than relying on process or ceremonies to create momentum. • Strong written and spoken English, used daily in an international environment. Nice-to-haves • Experience delivering software within financial services. • Experience with collections or contact-centre platforms. • Exposure to AI, conversational AI or voice-technology implementations. • Experience managing short, repeatable customer implementation cycles rather than only long-running transformation programmes. • Experience working closely with distributed engineering teams. • Familiarity with Professional Services organisations delivering configurable products and integrations to enterprise customers. Benefits • Remote work or work from offices in Wroclaw or Bielsko-Biala; occasional office, client-site or client-headquarters visits may be required. • Flexible working hours, with start times between 7:00 and 10:00 am. • Employee referral bonuses of 3,000–7,000 PLN. • Remote English classes and access to a company library. • Opportunity to author articles for the technical blog.

🏢 Summary: Senior full-stack consulting assignment supporting lifecycle management and modernization of business-critical case management applications for Customer Service. The role combines hands-on .NET and Angular development, technical-debt and risk reduction, and guidance to build a modern KYC user interface while strengthening frontend capability. The consultant will work in an agile team using modern engineering, automation, trunk-based practices, and AI-assisted development. 🗂️ Requirements: Senior full-stack development experience, Lifecycle management and modernization of business-critical applications, Technical-debt reduction and long-term maintainability, Angular, TypeScript, Modern web development, REST API development, User interface development, .NET/C# development, ASP.NET Core, Scalable, secure business application development, GitHub and GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments, Code reviews, Automated testing, AI-assisted development tools, Clean code, security, and maintainability focus, Agile cross-functional team collaboration, Knowledge sharing and Angular frontend guidance 📃 Skills: Angular, TypeScript, REST, .NET, C#, ASP.NET, GitHub, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Kafka, Microservices, AI, Testing 🏢 Description: Start date 2026-09-07 End date 2026-12-31 Project Description The team is responsible for maintaining and developing business-critical case management applications used primarily by Customer Service. These applications support daily operational processes and are important for efficient customer case handling, stable service delivery, and a good user experience for internal users. The team is entering a period with a significant set of lifecycle management activities related to older applications. This includes modernization, technical debt reduction, platform upgrades, and remediation of lifecycle and security-related risks. In parallel, the team will contribute to building a new modern user interface to support the KYC process within the case management area. The two consultant roles are intended to strengthen the team in complementary areas: one with a stronger focus on LCM activities combined with Angular/frontend guidance and capability building, and one with a stronger focus on legacy modernization, lifecycle management (LCM), and technical risk reduction. Both consultants are expected to work as integrated team members, contribute across shared priorities, and support the team’s ambition to increase the use of AI-assisted development in everyday engineering work. Assignment Context Team mission: Enable high-quality and efficient case processing across customer channels by providing flexible, scalable, and cost-effective case and process management solutions with strong focus on user experience, test automation, and continuous improvement. Main user group and stakeholder: Customer Service. Business area: Case management, including support for the KYC process. Key delivery focus: Lifecycle management of older applications combined with upcoming modern user interface development. Team capability need: Strengthening frontend competence, especially around Angular, through hands-on collaboration and knowledge sharing. Engineering direction: Increased use of AI-assisted development, modern engineering practices, and movement towards trunk-based development. Primary focus This is a senior fullstack role with a primary focus on supporting lifecycle management (LCM) activities and reducing the delivery load on the team. The consultant should contribute hands-on to maintenance, modernization, platform upgrades, technical debt reduction, and other activities needed to keep existing business-critical applications stable, secure, and maintainable. In addition, the profile should provide frontend and Angular guidance for upcoming UI development, including best practices, frontend setup, maintainable component design, and knowledge transfer. The role is expected to strengthen the team’s frontend capability through hands-on collaboration, mentoring, and practical support rather than being limited to isolated UI delivery. Required competencies Strong fullstack development experience, with solid frontend capability and the ability to contribute across both existing applications and new development initiatives. Experience working with lifecycle management, maintenance, modernization, technical debt reduction, and long-term maintainability of business-critical applications. Solid experience with Angular, TypeScript, modern web technologies, REST APIs, and user interface development. Strong experience with .NET/C# and modern .NET development practices, including ASP.NET Core. Experience designing, developing, improving, and maintaining scalable, secure, and user-friendly business applications. Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and automated deployments. Preferred competencies Familiarity with .NET Aspire for local development, service orchestration, observability, and cloud-native development. Familiarity with event-driven architectures, messaging patterns, and technologies such as Kafka. Understanding of software architecture, frontend architecture, integration patterns, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native platforms such as Kubernetes. Experience guiding other developers in Angular best practices, frontend architecture, development setup, and knowledge sharing within a team. Experience from regulated environments, case management, KYC, life and pension insurance, insurance administration, or similar process-heavy domains. Modern Engineering Practices Strong interest in modern software engineering practices and continuous improvement. Experience with automated testing, code reviews, CI/CD, and quality-focused development. Experience from teams adopting or moving towards trunk-based development, with small frequent integrations and fast feedback loops. Committed to clean code, maintainability, security, and long-term sustainability of business-critical applications. AI-Assisted Development Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, software quality, documentation, testing, troubleshooting, and knowledge discovery. Able to combine AI support with engineering expertise, critical thinking, security awareness, and high quality standards. Curious and proactive in exploring AI-enabled ways of working and emerging technologies. Engineering Excellence Passion for delivering high-quality solutions with focus on maintainability, performance, security, and user experience. Experience working with both new development initiatives and long-term maintenance of business-critical applications. Takes ownership from idea to production and actively contributes to improving development processes and ways of working. Balances delivery speed with quality, security, and operational stability. Collaboration and Personal Qualities Fast learner who quickly adapts to new technologies, business domains, and ways of working. Proactive self-starter with a strong sense of ownership and accountability. Positive, solution-oriented mindset and strong team-player attitude. Enjoys collaboration, knowledge sharing, and building positive professional relationships. Effective communicator who can collaborate successfully with developers, architects, product owners, and business stakeholders. Comfortable working in agile, cross-functional teams and contributing across the full software development lifecycle.

🏢 Summary: Senior Deployment and Integration Engineer role delivering AI-platform deployments and reusable client integrations from MVP and pilot through production and BAU. The fully remote B2B contract uses Kotlin and Java on GCP, with responsibilities spanning real-time voice integrations, cloud infrastructure, testing, production support and mentoring. 🗂️ Requirements: Commercial Kotlin experience, Commercial Java experience, Hands-on GCP experience, Terraform and cloud provisioning experience, CI/CD and containerised deployment experience, REST API, microservices, third-party API, webhook and SDK integration experience, PostgreSQL, Redis and Firestore experience, Authentication and API security knowledge, Unit, integration and API testing experience, UAT and production deployment support experience, Logging, monitoring and production troubleshooting experience, Reusable integration delivery experience, Real-time or agentic integration experience, Client technical-requirements translation experience, Full delivery lifecycle experience: MVP, pilot, UAT, production and BAU, English proficiency 📃 Skills: Kotlin, Java, GCP, Terraform, CI/CD, Containers, REST, Microservices, Webhooks, SDKs, PostgreSQL, Redis, Firestore, SIP, WebRTC, APIs, UAT, MVP, BAU 🏢 Description: Senior Deployment and Integration Engineer In Short • 100% remote or office-based work • 150–180 PLN/h + VAT • B2B contract Description Join a client-facing engineering team working on an AI-powered platform and its integrations. Own client deployments and integrations end to end, from MVPs and pilots through integration, testing and UAT to production deployment, maintenance and BAU support. Work with an international engineering team, including senior engineers in Canada, to deliver new and complex integrations. Generalise new integrations into reusable capabilities that can be deployed efficiently for future clients, and help onboard and mentor deployment and configuration engineers. The project is fully remote and delivered in the client’s controlled virtual desktop environment, where all code and data remain. The core stack is Kotlin and Java on GCP. Responsibilities • Own standard client deployments and integrations from MVP/pilot through production and BAU • Work with senior engineers on new and complex third-party integrations • Build and maintain integrations with contact-centre, telephony and external platforms • Work with real-time voice technologies, including SIP, WebRTC, voice streaming, speech-to-text and text-to-speech • Develop and integrate REST APIs, microservices, webhooks and SDKs • Convert newly delivered integrations into generalised, reusable solutions for future clients • Work with Kotlin and Java services running on GCP • Provision cloud infrastructure and support automated deployments using Terraform, CI/CD and containers • Work with PostgreSQL, Redis and Firestore • Write and maintain unit, integration and API tests • Support UAT, production deployments, monitoring, logging and troubleshooting • Translate customer requirements into technical solutions with customer technical teams • Use AI coding tools to understand and contribute to an established codebase while verifying generated output • Support and mentor deployment and configuration engineers Requirements • Strong commercial experience with Kotlin and Java • Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) • Terraform, CI/CD, containerised deployments and cloud infrastructure provisioning experience • Strong experience building and integrating REST APIs, microservices, third-party APIs, webhooks and SDKs • Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis and Firestore • Solid understanding of authentication and API security principles • Unit, integration and API testing experience, including UAT support • Hands-on experience with production deployments, logging, monitoring and troubleshooting • Proven ability to build integrations for reuse rather than repeatedly delivering bespoke implementations • Real-time or agentic integration experience, ideally with contact-centre or telephony platforms, SIP, WebRTC, real-time voice streaming, speech-to-text or text-to-speech • Ability to quickly work in a mature codebase using AI coding tools with sound engineering judgement and verification • Ability to translate customer requirements into technical implementations • Confidence across MVP, pilot, UAT, production and BAU delivery stages • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in production environments • Ability to work with customer technical teams and mentor engineers • Strong written and spoken English Nice to Have • Pub/Sub, queues and event-driven processing experience • Vertex AI or OpenAI API experience • LLM, AI agent or conversational AI integration experience • High-availability and high-performance systems experience • Collections, contact-centre or financial-services experience Benefits • Remote work or work from an office • Occasional office visits, client visits or trips to the client’s headquarters may be required • Flexible start time between 7:00 and 10:00 am • Employee referral bonuses of 3,000–7,000 PLN • Remote English classes and access to a company library

🏢 Summary: Lead a hands-on full-stack/backend engineering effort to build scalable services, APIs, workflow engines, and agentic AI systems for logistics optimization. The role combines technical leadership, production reliability, third-party integrations, and mentoring while delivering AI-driven planning and optimization capabilities. 🗂️ Requirements: Senior or technical-lead backend engineering experience, Strong Python and API-development proficiency, Scalable distributed-systems architecture experience, API design, data modeling, and integration expertise, Agentic AI, LLM orchestration, RAG, or multi-agent systems experience, Cloud-platform and CI/CD experience, Third-party API integration experience, Production debugging experience with LLM-driven systems, Engineering mentorship and code/design review experience, Technical leadership and stakeholder communication skills, Successful pre-employment screening 📃 Skills: Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, LangGraph, LangChain, RAG, AWS, Bedrock, GitLab, CICD, SSE, WebSockets, LLM 🏢 Description: What's the role? We are looking for a Tech Lead Fullstack Engineer to build core backend systems powering next-generation agentic AI solutions for the logistics industry. The systems developed by this team optimize deliveries at scale improving driver efficiency, increasing reliability, reducing operational costs, and lowering environmental impact. In this role, you will focus on building the core service layer, customer-facing APIs, workflow engines, and integrations with HERE APIs and third-party systems that enable intelligent logistics workflows. You will work closely with senior engineers and technical leaders to design and implement scalable, reliable systems that support AI-driven planning and optimization use cases. This is a hands-on engineering role with a strong focus on backend development, system reliability, and production-quality delivery . What You’ll Do: Lead the design, build, and maintenance of core backend services, APIs, and workflow orchestration systems for logistics applications Drive integrations with HERE APIs and external third-party systems to support real-world logistics workflows Translate ambiguous product and technical requirements into scalable, maintainable system components, and help others on the team do the same Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code in Python and/or TypeScript, setting the standard for code quality across the team Design and build agentic AI systems based on LangGraph, and help shape how the team approaches LLM orchestration and multi-agent architecture Lead system design discussions and own key architectural decisions, ensuring solutions align with the overall system vision Build and maintain customer-facing APIs with a strong focus on usability, performance, and reliability Ensure high-quality delivery through testing, monitoring, and debugging in production environments, including systems with non-deterministic (LLM-driven) behavior Mentor engineers through code review, design feedback, and pairing, and help grow the team's technical capabilities Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and domain experts to deliver end-to-end features Continuously improve system performance, scalability, and operational efficiency Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve development speed and code quality Who are you? What We’re Looking For: Proven experience as a technical lead or in a senior engineering role, with strong backend development skills and a track record of owning systems end-to-end Strong proficiency in Python, with experience building APIs (FastAPI or similar) and backend systems; TypeScript is a plus Experience architecting scalable services and distributed systems, and making tradeoff decisions that hold up under real-world load and change Strong command of API design, data modeling, and system integration patterns — ideally including streaming/event-driven APIs (e.g., SSE, websockets), not just request/response Hands-on experience building or leading development of agentic AI systems: LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, LangChain), RAG pipelines, or multi-agent architectures Experience working with cloud platforms, ideally AWS (including managed LLM services like Bedrock), and modern CI/CD practices (GitLab CI or equivalent) Experience integrating with external/third-party APIs and handling real-world data and system constraints in production Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in production environments, including systems with non-deterministic (LLM-driven) components Experience mentoring engineers, conducting code/design reviews, and raising the technical bar across a team Ability to break down ambiguous problems into well-defined work, balancing hands-on coding with technical leadership Excellent communication skills, with the ability to align engineering decisions with product and business priorities, and a pragmatic approach to engineering challengesWe are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to build core backend systems powering next-generation agentic AI solutions for the logistics industry. The systems developed by this team optimize deliveries at scale improving driver efficiency, increasing reliability, reducing operational costs, and lowering environmental impact.Design , build, and maintain What We Offer: The opportunity to tackle meaningful and challenging problems A chance to continuously learn and stay on top of the latest technology trends Work that has real-world impact, shaping the future of mobility and technology Regular feedback to help you grow and succeed in your role A collaborative and supportive team environment where your contributions are valued Competitive salary plus bonus Flexible working hours and a hybrid working environment Medical coverage for you and your family This role is eligible for Creative Tax Incentive scheme in Poland” or KUP (Autorskie Koszty Uzyskania Przychodu) Option to work on a B2B contract (please note: benefits, bonus and KUP do not apply in this case) Change is HERE. Apply Now! #LI-AK8   #LI-HYBRID Life at HERE in Poland comes with a competitive total rewards package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and performance. This includes a base salary, a Short-Term Incentive (STI) bonus (percentage based on role), a creative tax advantage for eligible positions, private medical care (including dental), life insurance, a meal allowance, vision reimbursement, a remote work allowance (if applicable), access to MyBenefit and Multisport programs, and various wellbeing initiatives. Paid time off, sick leave, and parental leave are provided in accordance with the Polish Labor Code. As part of HERE Technologies employment process, candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This offer and any related claims are subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. This will involve employment, education, and criminal verification if applicable. HERE is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. Who are we? HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely. At HERE we take it upon ourselves to be the change we wish to see. We create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people’s lives. If you are inspired by an open world and driven to create positive change, join us. Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel. Apply for this job online Email this job to a friend Share on your newsfeed Connect With Us! Not ready to apply? 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🏢 Summary: B2B full-stack product engineering cooperation with a strong frontend focus, delivering user-facing hospitality software features from discovery and design through production release. The role combines VueJS-based frontend craft, daily PHP/Laravel backend work, product judgment, UX quality, and AI-augmented development in a remote-first model. 🗂️ Requirements: Strong commercial experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, VueJS, Tailwind, and Pinia, Experience with component architecture, state management, and performance, Documented backend engineering experience with PHP and Laravel, Knowledge of design patterns, APIs, caching, database query optimization, microservices, and message queues, Ability to deliver frontend and backend features end-to-end, Communicative Polish and English 📃 Skills: TypeScript, JavaScript, VueJS, Tailwind, Pinia, PHP, Laravel, Node.js, REST, Docker, GitLab, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, Microservices, Kubernetes, Claude, Cursor 🏢 Description: The ability to build software is no longer rare. AI has made execution accessible to almost everyone. What's rare now is judgment — understanding customer problems, making sound decisions, and knowing where to create real value. The role At Profitroom we build hospitality software used by thousands of hotels and millions of guests. In this cooperation, you take responsibility for technical initiatives end-to-end: from technical discovery and solution design, through implementation and testing, to release and production readiness. The Product Manager steers direction and owns the what and why. You own the how and the technical solution. This is a full-stack product engineering cooperation with a strong frontend focus . Your technical home is the frontend: user journeys, component architecture, interaction design, and UX quality. You also work across the backend when AI, established patterns, and your experience make it practical — for example, when connecting APIs, implementing business logic, or building integrations. Frontend development and product engineering are not the same thing. Frontend without product judgment is implementation. Product judgment without frontend craft is wireframes. We're looking for both — plus the full-stack reach to deliver a feature end-to-end without handing half of it off. “The builder drives; the PM steers.” This is what we mean by product engineering. Not just a label — a way of working. What you'll actually do Full-stack delivery of user-facing features — the frontend and the backend behind it, designed, built, tested, and shipped by you Technical discovery — together with the PM, you validate feasibility, identify constraints, and shape the technical approach before scope is locked End-to-end quality — you care whether the experience works in production, not only whether it passed review AI-augmented development — Claude Code is our daily driver; MCP servers, custom agents, and internal tooling are part of the real workflow Close collaboration with Product Managers and backend engineers — you own the how; the PM owns the what and why UX coherence — you notice recurring issues, raise them, and leave the product better than you found it → Tech stack Full-stack, TypeScript, JavaScript,VueJS , Node.js, Claude Code, MCP servers, AI agents, REST API, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, PHP, Laravel, MySQL / MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, Microservices, Kubernetes. What we're looking for: Technical expectations: TypeScript & JavaScript, VueJS, Tailwind and Pinia — strong commercial experience; component architecture, state management, performance; you've built real things with these technologies. UX sensibility — you notice what's wrong before users complain; interaction quality matters to you. PHP & Laravel — you have documented experience with backend engineering, you understand concepts like design patterns, APIs, caching, database query optimization, microservices, message queues. It’s a full-stack job, writing backend will not be an occasional favour but your daily task. AI tooling — hands-on Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent; experience generating backend integrations with AI and understanding advanced topics like skills, spec-driven developmen, feedback loops; is a strong plus. Communicative Polish and English — you work closely with PMs, QA, and software engineers. You'll enjoy collaborating with us if: You've shipped user-facing features that real people used — and you know what broke and why You notice UI details that most engineers scroll past, and it bothers you when they're wrong You get curious about the business reason behind a feature before you start building it Taking responsibility for a feature end-to-end — from the PM conversation through to production — feels like the natural way to work AI tools feel like a natural extension of how you work; you use them to move beyond the frontend boundary into full-stack work when needed You care about what happens on a slow connection, with a keyboard, and on a screen size nobody designed for You can weigh in on whether a feature is worth building without needing to be the person who makes the final product decision Bonus points: You have a side project — something you built, shipped, and perhaps use yourself You use AI tools on your own account, not only when they are provided as part of a project You've worked with or contributed to a design system or component library You've built Node.js services or backend integrations beyond the occasional CRUD endpoint Probably not for you if: Your definition of “done” is a Figma-accurate implementation, regardless of how it actually works for users Backend is someone else's problem and that's a firm boundary for you Your hands-on AI experience is mostly autocomplete and the occasional PR summary Contract terms: B2B cooperation. Monthly compensation range: 15,000–25,000 PLN net , depending on experience and the agreed scope of services. Remote-first collaboration model International technology and product projects Flexible project collaboration setup Planned service breaks aligned with contract terms Opportunity to collaborate with experienced product and technology teams Opportunity to access selected knowledge-sharing initiatives → Recruitment process Intro call with the Recruiter (up to 45 minutes). We cover your background, what you're looking for, and mutual fit. Technical interview with the Team Leader, Tech Lead, and Product Manager (up to 90 minutes). Expect concrete technical questions and a discussion of how you approach frontend architecture, full-stack delivery, product ownership, and the practical use of AI. We care about judgment and initiative, not keyword recall. Technical task. A time-boxed, practical challenge reflecting the type of services involved in the cooperation, reviewed together in a follow-up call. We care about your process, UX decisions, and how you handle the parts that go beyond the frontend.