Senior Software Engineer (Platform) - Krakow

About this role

## About ARQ

ARQ is one of the fastest-growing fintechs in the world. Our mission is to redefine how people interact with money across borders, building the infrastructure to move value seamlessly. We’re still early in our journey, which means every person who joins shapes the future of our product, culture, and growth. If you’re excited by big challenges, global impact, and the chance to grow fast with a world-class team, ARQ is the place to do it.

## What we're looking for

We’re looking for a world-class, hands-on Senior/Lead Software Engineer to join our Platform team who takes a software engineer’s approach to architecting and building engineering infrastructure.

Our engineering culture is focused on fully type-safe, declarative & testable infrastructure as code and we’re looking for like-minded engineers who also value these properties to join us.

The ideal candidate will have a raw passion for programming, a broad knowledge base and the ability to dig deeply into any technical area required to enable our product engineering team to deliver the best product on the market for managing modern finances.

We architect extreme-quality, automated systems to orchestrate hundreds of backend services & databases across tens of kubernetes clusters, tens of thousands of data processing jobs and tens of thousands of CI/CD builds per week - if that excites you, we want to talk to you.

## What you'll be doing

• The design and implementation of the secure, highly-available infrastructure layer that powers a modern, high-growth, financial services company.

• Ensure our product engineering organisation can spin up new infrastructure in an unimpeded and rapid manner, through the careful design and implementation of shared IaC libraries, cli tools and codebase patterns.

• Problem-solve, analyse and debug infrastructure issues & opportunities with members of the wider engineering team.

• Strategise & execute on the rollout techniques for making ...