Staff Software Engineer – DaaS / APIs / MCP

Posted 21 days ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open: 21 days
Reposted: No
Salary listed: No
Ghost-job risk at Cognism: moderate
Hiring momentum: 27 roles opened in the last 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board: 2026-09-17

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About this role

In this role, you will be a founding senior technical leader at Cognism's new Warsaw Engineering Hub, responsible for shaping the architecture and engineering standards of the platform. You will oversee the technical ownership of critical capabilities across multiple teams, focusing on distributed backend systems, APIs, and enterprise integrations. Your responsibilities will also include mentoring engineers, driving architectural decisions, and ensuring improvements in reliability and scalability of the platform.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5

benefits: 1/5
freshness: 4/5
career value: 5/5
role clarity: 5/5
pay transparency: 0/5

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What you need

8+ years building large-scale backend systems
Strong software architecture experience in distributed systems
Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
Experience with event-driven architectures, APIs and microservices
Excellent communication and mentoring skills
Ability to influence without formal authority

Nice to have

Kafka
Kubernetes
Terraform
Scala
Java

Worth weighing

No salary listed
Opportunity to influence technology choices and culture in a new engineering hub
Role involves significant technical leadership and mentoring responsibilities

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Listed by Cognism on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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