Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Recoveries)

Role overview

Set the technical direction for a platform that manages the recovery of charged-off loans while supporting flexible ways for customers to resolve outstanding balances. The work spans partner integrations and customer-facing products, with particular attention to financial accuracy, reliability, and regulatory requirements. As a staff-level engineer, you’ll lead technical initiatives across teams and help strengthen the platform as it expands its capabilities and reach.

Responsibilities

- Define a year-long technical strategy and connect it to high-impact projects. - Lead initiatives to improve recovery decisioning, customer experiences, and the reliability and scalability of financial and partner integrations. - Work with product, design, analytics, and other functions to surface technical risks and make sustainable decisions. - Establish operational practices, including monitoring, alerting, testing, playbooks, and on-call processes. - Set expectations for design and code review, and share technical guidance through writing and presentations. - Mentor engineers through feedback, guidance, and example.

Requirements

- At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including building and operating backend systems at scale. - Experience with technologies such as Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. - Experience operating systems where correctness matters, such as batch processing, asynchronous workflows, backfills, and reconciliation. - Ability to design across complex systems and organizational boundaries, including work that touches backend services and customer-facing applications. - Track record of planning and delivering major features or system changes with clear, maintainable code. - Strong judgment in ambiguous situations and clear communication with engineering and cross-functional partners.

Benefits and work setup

- Remote role based in Poland. - Benefits include paid time off and public holidays, private healthcare, a fitness benefit, learning and development support, parental and family support, mental well-being resources, financial planning support, and employee community groups.