At Beekeeper, we're on a mission to digitally empower the world's frontline teams - and we're looking for a skilled Backend Software Engineer to help us drive that mission forward.
In this role, you'll contribute to the full backend development lifecycle - from designing robust server-side logic and APIs to building scalable, high-performance systems. You'll work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to deliver meaningful features at scale. We're looking for someone with strong technical foundations, a collaborative mindset, and a passion for quality who's ready to grow, contribute, and make a difference every day.
Your responsibilities
- Develop Backend Features: Design, implement, and maintain features across our backend (Java, Python) systems, ensuring a seamless user experience.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with product managers, designers, QA, and DevOps engineers to deliver thoughtful, user-focused solutions.
- Ensure Reliability and Scalability: Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code that meets high standards for performance, security, and reliability.
- Support Engineering Best Practices: Participate in code reviews, contribute to documentation, and help uphold team-wide practices around testing and maintainability.
- Optimize System Performance: Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot performance issues across the stack to maintain responsiveness under scale.
- Contribute to Technical Discussions: Engage in architectural and technical discussions, and provide constructive input to help guide design decisions.
- Take Ownership of Your Code: Support the features and services you build, including participating in on-call rotations when needed and handling operational responsibilities.
What we look for in you
- Backend Development Experience: 3+ years building cloud-based applications with solid skills in backend (Java & Python preferred)
- Modern Infrastructure Familiarity: Practical experience deploying applications using Kubernetes in AWS or GCP environments.
- Quality-Focused Engineering: A strong eye for clean, maintainable code with solid testing practices and performance awareness.
- Collaborative Mindset: Effective communication skills, a willingness to share knowledge, and a proactive approach to teamwork and continuous learning.
Bonus Points
- Exposure to AI/ML: Familiarity with AI, prompt engineering, or integration of LLMs.
- DevOps & Infrastructure: Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or Spacelift, and observability platforms such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- B2B/SaaS Experience: History of shipping software in a SaaS environment.
Our Technology Stack
- Cloud Infrastructure as Code: We operate on AWS and GCP across multiple regions, managing our infrastructure with Spacelift and Terraform.
- Container Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS and GKE) orchestrates our containerized services, configured with Helm and FluxCD.
- Backend Services: Predominantly built in Java (Quarkus) and Python, with a focus on high performance and scalability.
- Event-Driven Architecture: Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ power our messaging and event-driven flows.
- Databases: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MySQL, and Elasticsearch serve our diverse data storage needs.
- Monitoring & Logging: We rely on Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack for observability and performance insights.
- AI Integration: We are continuously exploring new AI technologies to enhance our platform and internal workflows.
What we offer
- Competitive salary
- Phone & Home Internet costs reimbursement up to 80 PLN/month
- Private health care package with Luxmed – covered for you and partially for your partner / family
- Cafeteria benefits – monthly budget to cover sport cards or other purchases
- Creative Allowance – paid as 1000 PLN gross/month
- Home office set-up reimbursement up to 1000 PLN
- Personal Learning & Development Budget of 1500 USD/year
- 26 days of annual leave/year
- 2 Mental Health days off per year
Benefits listed above are part of the compensation package for contract of employment.
Join us and help shape the future of frontline work. You will play a critical role in building and refining features that reach and empower millions of users around the globe. If you're driven by curiosity, thrive in a collaborative environment, and want to make an immediate impact, we'd love to hear from you!
Apply now to become a Backend Software Engineer at Beekeeper and help us transform the frontline experience.
Who we are
Beekeeper believes in the potential of every single employee. That's why we've built the essential platform for frontline workers. We help organisations digitally enable their frontline, to boost productivity, quality and safety, and be more agile.
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Beekeeper and LumApps merged to create the first AI-powered Employee Hub, an all-in-one platform designed to connect and empower every employee - whether desk-based or frontline. LumApps, a SaaS platform dedicated to Employee Experience, helps companies drive digital transformation in communication, collaboration, and engagement with their clients, partners, and, most importantly, their employees. Together, our mission is to redefine the employee experience by integrating communication, productivity, and engagement tools into a unified, intelligent platform that serves over 7 million users globally.
At Beekeeper, we celebrate diversity! All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. We are committed to ensuring a smooth application process for all candidates. If you require accommodations due to a disability, please reach out to [email protected], and our team will be more than happy to assist you.
Please know that you are not required to share your nationality, age or a picture of you on the CV! We are looking forward to your application!
