Senior Platform Software Engineer

As a Senior Platform Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and building the foundational systems that support our entire platform. You'll work with modern technologies such as Quarkus, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ClickHouse, AWS, PostgreSQL, Debezium, and LLMs/MCP using Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Kotlin. You'll focus on delivering highly scalable and maintainable platform services, contributing deep technical expertise and driving improvements across codebases and system architecture. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and share your knowledge to raise the technical bar across the organization.

**Your responsibilities**:

- **Platform Development**:Contribute to the design & implementation of complex backend services that support large-scale, business-critical workloads. Focus on scalability, maintainability, and performance
- **System Design**: Design and build highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems using microservices architecture and cloud-native patterns. Review architectural docs and provide guidance for cross-team feature implementation
- **Cross-team Collaboration**: Work closely with product engineering teams to understand requirements and design platform solutions that accelerate their delivery
- **Mentorship**: Guide and develop junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and technical mentoring
- **Technical Strategy**: Contribute to technical roadmap planning and architectural decisions that balance innovation with maintainability
- **Engineering Excellence**: Drive best practices in code quality, testing, monitoring, and deployment across the platform organization
- **Take Ownership of Your Code**: Support the features and services you build, including participating in on-call rotations when needed and handling operational responsibilities.

**What we look for**:
**Required Experience**:

- **7+ years** of software engineering experience with at least **4+ years** in senior individual contributor roles
- **Proven track record** of architecting and building large-scale distributed systems in production environments
- **Bachelor's or Master's degree** in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- **Technical mentorship experience** with demonstrable impact on junior engineers' growth

**Technical Expertise**:

- **Expert-level proficiency** in Java, Python, or similar backend languages with deep understanding of performance optimization
- **Advanced knowledge** of distributed systems architecture, including microservices, event-driven architecture, and data consistency patterns
- **Production experience** with Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
- **Strong foundation** in database design, optimization, and distributed data management
- **Experience** with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices
- **Understanding**of system observability, monitoring, and debugging complex distributed systems

**Leadership & Soft Skills**:

- **Proven ability** to lead technical initiatives and influence engineering decisions across teams
- **Excellent communication skills** with experience presenting technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
- **Growth mindset** with enthusiasm for learning new technologies and sharing knowledge with others
- **Strong problem-solving abilities** with experience debugging complex production issues
- **Collaborative approach** to engineering with experience working in cross-functional teams
- **Fluency in English**(speaking and writing) as our company language

**Bonus points**:

- **Staff Engineer experience** or demonstrated readiness for technical leadership roles
- **Experience with** Quarkus, Terraform, Elasticsearch, Debezium, ClickHouse, or similar technologies
- **Experience with** LLMs/MCP/Agents (Claude/Gemini/AWS Bedrock)
- **Open source contributions** or technical writing/speaking experience
- **Previous experience** scaling engineering teams or establishing technical standards
- **Entrepreneurial mindset**with experience in fast-growing technology companies

**What we offer**:

- Hybrid work model - 2 days in the office, 3 days remote
- RTT days - approx. 10 additional days off per year
- Meal vouchers (Swile) + free snacks and coffee
- Health insurance (Alan) - 60% covered, plus full coverage for provident insurance
- Afterworks, team celebrations, and seasonal events
- Equipment of your choice
- French and English lessons, professional development, and access to the CSE Leeto

**Who we are**:
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