Senior Software Engineer (Java / Kotlin) - Operations Automation

Our requirements

• Have Strong JVM Engineering Fundamentals: Demonstrate deep expertise in backend engineering with Kotlin/Java and have proven experience with distributed systems, Kafka, queuing systems, and PostgreSQL.
• Are Versatile & Tech-Agnostic: Are open to a very diverse environment. While your primary focus is the JVM stack, you are enthusiastic about collaborating with team members who touch frontend components (React/TypeScript) or AI assistant architectures (Python)
• Thrive under High Responsibility: Understand the business criticality of internal platform tools. You care about visual consistency, high security, and deep auditability, knowing that system stability directly impacts our daily customer service operations.
• Value Quick Feedback & Continuous Impact: Enjoy working closely with an internal customer base, allowing you to receive rapid feedback on your work and see its immediate organizational impact.
• Are Forward-Thinking & Innovative: Are open to experimenting with cutting-edge efficiency boosters. Our team actively explores integrating AI Agents and LLMs into our internal tooling and workflows to optimize daily operations.
• Possess a Pragmatic, Problem-Solving Attitude: Look for the best tool for the job, maintain an analytical mindset, and focus on driving automation over repetitive manual task
• Communicate in English: At a B2 level or higher.

Your responsibilities

• Design & Development: Architect, develop, and scale core platform services, messaging components, and internal development tools. The primary stack is backend-focused (Kotlin/Java, Spring, Kafka, queuing systems, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cloud - Azure/GCP, Kubernetes/Docker), with the opportunity to occasionally collaborate on the frontend (TypeScript/React) or AI-driven services (Python).
• Stability & Reliability: Actively monitor, optimize, and deep-dive into platform systems to ensure maximum stability and safeguard our internal SLAs. You will share responsibility for system availability by participating in our casual on-call duty rotation.
• Enabling Internal Teams: Provide a robust technical foundation and clear abstraction layers so other teams can build and deploy their tools swiftly, securely, and consistently.
• Project & Team Leadership: Lead software development initiatives, supervise and mentor other team members, and document software thoroughly.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Analyze the needs of our internal users to deliver features that accelerate company-wide development and eliminate repetitive manual work.

About the project

#goodtobehere means that:

• You will join a team you can count on - we work with top-class specialists who have knowledge- and experience-sharing in their DNA.
• You will love our level of autonomy in team organization, the space for continuous development, and the opportunity to try new things. You get to choose which technology solves the problem and you are responsible for what you create.
• You will value our Developer Experience and the full platform of tools and technologies that make creating software easier. We rely on an internal ecosystem based on self-service and widely used tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub, and GitHub Actions. Thanks to this, you can contribute to Allegro from your very first days on the job.
• You will be equipped with modern AI tools to automate repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on developing new services and refining existing ones (also leveraging AI support).
• You will create solutions that will be used (and loved!) by your friends, family and millions of our customers.
• You will meet the Allegro Scale, which starts with over 1000 microservices, an open-source data bus (Hermes) with 300K+ rps, a Service Mesh with 1M+ rps, tens of petabytes of data, and production-used machine learning.
• You will become part of Allegro Tech - We speak at industry conferences, cooperate with tech communities, run our own blog (it's been over 10 years!), record podcasts, lead guilds, and we organize our own internal conference - the Allegro Tech Meeting. We create solutions we love (and can) to talk about!

What we offer

• Well-located offices (with e.g. fully equipped kitchens, bicycle parking, terraces full of greenery) and excellent work tools (e.g., raised desks, ergonomic chairs, interactive conference rooms).
• A 16" or 14" MacBook Pro or corresponding Dell with Windows (if you don't like Macs) and all the necessary accessories.
• A wide selection of fringe benefits in a cafeteria plan - you choose what you like (e.g., medical, sports or lunch packages, insurance, purchase vouchers).
• English classes that we pay for related to the specific nature of your job.
• A training budget, inter-team tourism (see more here), hackathons, and an internal learning platform where you will find multiple trainings.
• An additional day off for volunteering, which you can use alone, with a team, or with a larger group of people connected by a common goal.
• Social events for Allegro people - Spin Kilometers, Family Day, Fat Thursday, Advent of Code, and many other occasions we enjoy.

Benefits

• sharing the costs of sports activities
• private medical care
• sharing the costs of foreign language classes
• sharing the costs of professional training & courses
• life insurance
• flexible working time
• integration events
• no dress code
• leisure zone
• extra social benefits