Backend Engineer - Tracking Team

Company Description

InPost Group is an innovative European out of home deliveries company, revolutionizing the way parcels are delivered to customers. With operations across several countries, our network of intelligent lockers provides customers with a fast, convenient, and secure delivery option. InPost Group is a publicly traded company, with a market capitalization of about $5 billion as of March 2023. With over 10,000 employees worldwide, InPost Group is one of the largest out of home delivery providers in Europe, committed to providing sustainable and efficient delivery solutions to meet the evolving needs of customers in today's rapidly changing landscape. 

Job Description

At InPost, we are passionate about developing software that helps our customers to send and receive their goods. We are building a new global shipping platform to make it easier for our partners and customers to ship parcels with ease, regardless of origin and destination countries, capable of scaling according to our company's growth objectives. 

The Tracking team plays a fundamental role in this goal by owning all the business logic related to tracking shipments, directly influencing the experience we offer to end-users, partner merchants, and internal teams we enable by data and analysis. 

We are seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to support us in building cloud-based, highly scalable, high-availability applications, to work in an international team, and who is passionate about solving real world problems with software. 

Development stack: Java, Spring Boot, K8s, Docker, Firestore (GCP), Kafka, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) 

• Designing, building, testing, and operating high-performance microservices in Java using state-of-the-art methods and technologies.

• Continuously improve the applications you own.  

• Advocate for an engineering culture of quality, good development principles, and innovation within the team. 

• Have a design-first approach to building software. Maintain quality and up- to- date documentation of the systems you own. 

• Collaborate with peers in other engineering teams. 

Qualifications

• A solid foundation in software engineering – a degree in computer science or a related field, or/and relevant experience of 4+ years. 

• Professional Java development proficiency, with knowledge of common tooling such as Spring Boot 

• Experience in designing data structures for relational and non-relational databases. 

• Knowledge of traditional software development processes and tools, including Maven/Gradle, Git, Sonar, JIRA, Confluence, Code Reviews, and GitLab CI/CD. 

• Hands-on experience developing microservices using modern technologies such as Apache Kafka (or similar), REST APIs, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud-based infrastructure (GCP or others). 

• Experience with agile development methodologies. 

• Fluent in English. 

Nice to have: 

• Familiar with the ELK Stack

• Experience with GCP, especially Firestore

• Experience with Kafka 

Additional Information

Why Join InPost?

• The option to work from the office or 100% remotely

• Opportunity to work in a diverse, international and cross-functional environment, along with leading experts. 

• Fulfilling careers with a range of benefits for employees and invests in providing training opportunities for their development. 

• Involvement in technology monitoring and choices 

• Your software will be used by millions of users, making a significant difference in their lives