Senior/Staff Engineer, Backend
Location: Wroclaw, Poland
Department: Engineering
About the Role
We're experiencing significant growth and are looking for a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to support our rapid product growth. This is an in-person role focused on owning and evolving our backend services to create a modern, AI-native developer experience.
You will
- Partner with the Product, AI, and Operations teams to architect new features and complex agentic systems.
- Build and maintain backend services and APIs that power Kick’s core product to ensure systems are secure, well-tested and high performance.
- Make clear architectural tradeoffs that balance between platform, product and business goals.
- Design and implement distributed services to orchestrate data pipelines, automate investigations, and enable incident response at scale.
- Own operational best practices so engineers can ship multiple times a day with confidence.
- Set engineering standards for writing, communication and system design influencing how a modern AI-native product is built.
We're looking for someone with
- 5-10+ years of experience designing, building and operating production backend systems.
- Deep backend engineering skills including API design, data modeling and reasoning about distributed systems tradeoffs.
- Hands on experience running AWS/GCP with a strong understanding of how infrastructure impacts application reliability and performance.
- Practical experience with CI/CD including testing and deployment strategies.
- Solid grasp of observability and healthy on-call practices.
Bonus if you have
- Experience as an engineer at an early-stage or scaling startup.
- Exposure to modern AI/ML systems.
- Experience working on product without a product manager
Our tech
- TypeScript, React, Node.js
- AWS, Terraform
- Postgres
- OpenAI, Azure AI
- GitHub, Slack, Linear, Figma, Notion
Location
- Wroclaw, Poland, 4-5 days per week in person
- Office is located next to the Wroclaw main train station
- Candidates should be based in Wroclaw or open to relocation
What we offer
- $130,000-$190,000 USD salary + competitive equity
- $100/mo wellness and commute stipend
- Premium hardware (MacBook Pro/AirPods)
- Daily in-office lunch and dinner
We’re building a world-class team of creative thinkers and doers from diverse backgrounds. If you’re excited about this role, even if your experience isn’t a perfect match, we want to hear from you.
About the Company
About Kick
Kick is an applied AI company building accounting software that does the work for you. We’ve raised $20M from OpenAI Startup Fund, General Catalyst and Google Ventures to help millions of entrepreneurs automate the boring stuff, so they can focus on what matters most.
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