Staff Software Engineer

We work in hybrid mode 3+2, at least 3 days at the office (with mandatory Wednesdays, and Thursdays) and 2 days at the home office.

The location of our office is Puszkarska 7J/Building E, 30-644 Kraków, Polska.

Overview:

At SolarWinds, our mission is to build the best-of-breed observability products. We’re passionate about translating infrastructure and application data into meaningful insights for our customers.

We are seeking a detail-oriented Staff Front-End Engineer to join our Application Performance Monitoring (APM) team, where you will be helping us build the next generation of observability software. You will work alongside skilled colleagues exclusively on our brand-new product experience using state-of-the-art, modern technology.

We’ve built our application stack on TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and NodeJS (Express). We use Git/GitHub to manage/review code and we communicate over Slack. We follow Agile software development, so you’ll be delivering value quickly and iteratively. Code quality is at the top of our list, and you will have opportunities to help us maintain and improve those related processes.

Our engineering teams are committed to a healthy work/life balance and prefer asynchronous communication over meetings. We prioritize learning, personal development, and career growth—you will have many opportunities.

We offer autonomy in your work life and an attractive total compensation package, including competitive bonuses and ESPP. Come join us!

Project

SolarWinds Observability (SWO) provides unified visibility across cloud-native, on-premises, and hybrid environments. It offers real-time monitoring, AI-powered anomaly detection, and extensive third-party integrations to help IT teams maintain high performance and reliability. This makes it a valuable tool for ensuring optimal service levels and user satisfaction. For more detailed information, you can check out the official documentation SolarWinds Observability | SolarWinds and explore the demo environment https://demo.na-01.cloud.solarwinds.com/.

Your Impact:

A successful Staff Front-End Engineer should demonstrate specialized engineering knowledge in building software. Responsibilities may include:

• Build web applications and features using TypeScript, React, and GraphQL
• Understanding the “big picture” when breaking a problem down into small chunks of work
• Continually improve the availability, scalability, and performance of our applications
• Providing guidance and mentoring for other engineers when designing and implementing features
• Work with the team to estimate and plan our work
• Evaluating existing processes and procedures to identify areas that need optimization
• Willingness to learn and champion new things as the product grows and technologies change
• Keeping abreast of developments and innovation in the area of specialization
• Collaborate across the organization (architecture, UX, SRE, front-end/back-end engineering, etc.)
• Working with teams across the globe (accommodating time-zone challenges)
• Writing proposals to gain internal feedback on an idea ahead of implementation
• Actively participating in the Agile lifecycle (stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, retro)

Your Experience:

The right candidate is great to work with, enjoys collaboration, is proficient at building modern web applications, is well-equipped to spread knowledge, and takes pride in his or her craft. You should care deeply about user experience and expect to iterate as we figure out how things should work, look, and feel. You appreciate (and design) code/patterns that nudge engineers in the right direction.

• 5+ years of professional experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and React
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience building software in a Node.js environment
• Excited to teach and mentor younger engineers to help them grow
• Expertise in learning new technologies and familiarity with: Node.js, TypeScript, React, npm, GraphQL
• Comfortable consuming APIs and transforming data
• Experience and desire to work in a fast-paced environment
• Attentive to UI detail and excellent at working with designers to solve UX problems
• Comfortable with cloud-based deployment and remote teams
• Experience working in a Scrum environment
• Bonus: excited to expand the area of expertise, follows and promotes Agile methodologies, and prior experience in observability

Nice to have

• Proficiency in programming with Java and Kotlin
• Experience with Docker, microservices architecture, and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry
• Strong understanding of metrics and logging
• Expertise in CI/CD processes
• Experience with SaaS applications and AWS

Our benefits:

• 10 study days per year
• 2 volunteering days per year
• 30-day holidays after 5-year tenure Sabbatical Leave
• 4 weeks of paternity leave
• Up to 8700 PLN personal education budget per year
• 300 PLN corrective glasses reimbursement every two years
• Medical care with Luxmed – individual, partner, or family package fully paid by the company
• The company fully pays group life insurance
• Pension scheme (employee capital plans) with 1.5% employer contribution
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
• English/Polish classes
• MyBenefit platform with a monthly subsidy of 103 PLN (with various vouchers and Multisport cards available)
• ESPP plan – Discount for purchasing shares of SolarWinds stock – 15%
• 500 PLN per year of race fee reimbursement
• Solarian Refferal Program
• SolarWinds Appreciation Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Free lunches at the office on Wednesdays