Lead Software Engineer

Description

You will set the technical direction for a focused product or platform area, working hands-on while leading the engineering standards for your team and wider organisation.

The role combines hands-on delivery with technical leadership and mentoring, and shapes the long-term quality and resilience of the company's systems.

The company is a global provider of financial markets infrastructure and data, with about 25,000 people in 65 countries.

This role is posted at manager career stage.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy applications across the full software lifecycle, with attention to performance, security and scale.
• Architect and evolve distributed cloud systems, focusing on resilience, observability and efficient operations.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that deliver changes automatically and reliably.
• Contribute to API design, integration patterns and service-to-service communication.
• Use cloud infrastructure tooling, including Azure, containers, dev containers and infrastructure as code, to support fast, dependable deployments.
• Apply your knowledge of Data Lake, Change Data Feed, AKS and Microsoft Fabric to shape solution architecture and delivery.
• Support engineers through code reviews, design walkthroughs and architecture discussions.
• Improve engineering quality by promoting best practices, building reusable components and reducing duplication across the platform.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing and implementing complex distributed systems at scale.
• Strong programming skills in both object-oriented and functional styles.
• A good understanding of relational databases.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, Spark SQL and core data engineering patterns.
• A strong grasp of system design, integration patterns and secure communication between services.
• Able to use domain knowledge to guide team-level technical decisions, improve architecture and keep approaches consistent.
• Take ownership of critical platform capabilities and give clear technical direction.
• Coach and mentor peers on coding quality, architectural thinking and engineering practice.
• Influence decisions through hands-on work rather than seniority.
• Build a culture of collaboration, learning, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Design with real customer usage in mind, respond quickly to incidents and use data and feedback to improve reliability.
• Champion secure, safe delivery across software, infrastructure and platform layers.
• Weigh trade-offs in depth, clear blockers and build resilience into team systems and practices from the start.
• Use data, metrics and experiments to test assumptions and guide design choices, and encourage data-driven decisions in the team.
• Introduce new engineering methods, question outdated practices and drive change across teams.
• Keep growing your own craft and the team's skills through coaching, feedback and technical guidance.
• Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences, explaining design decisions so the team shares an understanding that speeds up delivery.

Conditions

The anticipated annual gross base salary is 265,000 zł - 419,000 zł. Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location, and individual pay reflects job-related knowledge, skills and equivalent experience.

The role is eligible for the annual bonus plan, with a target bonus percentage set by role level and career stage.

Roles other than internships are typically eligible for the company's benefits programme, with details by country available during the interview process.

The company is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on protected grounds, and it makes reasonable accommodations for religious practice and for mental health or physical disability needs where the law requires.

Benefits

• Influence the architecture and direction of key systems that power the company's global platforms.
• Work with modern technology stacks and talented engineers on solutions with real customer impact.
• Access healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
• Take part in fundraising and volunteering through the company's charitable foundation, which funds community groups that help people build financial independence.