Backend Software Engineer (Product Intelligence)

Quick Facts

• Role: Backend Software Engineer (Product Intelligence)

• Focus: AI-driven product intelligence capabilities and scalable event-driven microservices

• Work model: Hybrid (60% in/near Kraków)

Description

You will build and maintain an AI-powered product intelligence platform that automates product categorization, enrichment, and matching at large scale. The platform uses event-driven architecture with Kafka to process millions of events monthly, and you will work with Java/Spring Boot and Python while integrating LLM capabilities to solve real product intelligence problems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement microservices for product intelligence capabilities

• Build event-driven architectures for high-volume data processing

• Develop and optimize multi-agent systems

• Implement product matching algorithms using text and image similarity techniques

• Ensure scalability and reliability to process 1M+ events per week

• Collaborate with product managers and data scientists to translate business requirements into technical solutions

• Maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform on Azure

• Participate in architectural decisions to expand the platform’s AI capabilities

• Mentor junior engineers and uphold engineering excellence standards

• Integrate with internal and external Tesco systems

Requirements

• Solid experience with Java and Spring Boot for enterprise-grade applications

• Basic knowledge of Python

• Good understanding of event-driven architectures and Apache Kafka

• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Azure

• Familiarity with Kubernetes

• Working knowledge of databases including PostgreSQL and NoSQL

• Experience with RESTful API design and microservices architecture

• Knowledge of CI/CD, testing, and code review

• Comfort working with distributed systems

Benefits

• Hybrid working and flexible options

• Up to 20% yearly salary bonus

• Permanent contract from day one

• Tax-deductible IP expenses

• Private healthcare (LuxMed)

• Cafeteria & Multisport

• Additional 4 days paid leave

• Increased annual leave (20 to 25 days) for those not yet eligible for full entitlement

• Learning opportunities (certified technical training and Udemy)

• Back-to-school day

• Fertility leave (up to 2 weeks paid)

• Sports activities with a personal trainer

• Referral bonus

• MacBook as a work tool