Staff Software Engineer

Krakow, Poland

Req ID: 201319

At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, Partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.

The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!

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.

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 seek 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.

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 Observability SaaS and explore the demo environment https://demo.na-01.cloud.solarwinds.com/.

Responsibilities:

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

Qualifications:

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
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

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

SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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