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SoftwarePlatform Engineer

Motife


Job Location:

Kraków - Poland

Monthly Salary: m 17000 - 21000
Posted: 16 August 2026 (18 days ago)
Application Deadline: 30 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are hiring on behalf of our client a global leader in HR technology delivering an end-to-end SaaS platform that supports the entire recruitment lifecycle. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide their solutions combine cloud technology automation and cutting-edge AI to help businesses hire smarter work more efficiently and deliver better talent experiences.


As a Software/Platform Engineer you will join the Release Engineering and Platform team and help build the tooling pipelines and environments that take software from a developers machine into production. This is a hands-on engineering role combining software development with DevOps and platform engineering. You will build internal tools and automation work with CI/CD Kubernetes and GitOps and eliminate manual processes across the software delivery lifecycle.


Key takeaways:

Stack: Python JavaScript/TypeScript Bash GitLab CI/CD Jenkins Kubernetes Docker Helm ArgoCD Ansible AWS

Salary: 17 000 PLN - 21 000 PLN gross on the Contract of Employment

Working model: hybrid - 3x weekly from the office

Location: Krakow

Recruitment process:

  • A call with Motife recruiter (30 min)
  • Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test (30 min)
  • Hiring Manager Interview (30 min)
  • Technical Interview (90 min)


Responsibilities:
  • Design build and maintain deployment and release pipelines that improve reliability and minimize manual intervention.
  • Develop internal release and developer tooling to automate packaging approvals deployments and other release workflows.
  • Build and maintain engineering tools using Python and JavaScript/TypeScript combining backend automation with web-based interfaces where needed.
  • Create reusable GitLab CI templates Helm charts and ArgoCD applications that enable engineering teams to self-serve their build and deployment processes.
  • Containerize and modernize QA and lower environments using Docker Kubernetes Helm and Ansible improving consistency and production parity.
  • Troubleshoot deployment infrastructure and environment-specific issues in collaboration with software engineering QA and database teams.
  • Drive the adoption of GitOps and modern CI/CD practices across engineering teams.
  • Use AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development testing investigation refactoring and automation of repetitive operational work.
  • Maintain technical documentation and runbooks and share knowledge across distributed engineering teams.


Requirements:
  • 3 years of professional experience in software engineering DevOps platform engineering release engineering or a similar hands-on technical role.
  • Strong software development experience with the ability to build maintainable internal tools and automation rather than focusing solely on infrastructure configuration.
  • Hands-on coding experience with JavaScript or TypeScript.
  • Strong experience with Python and Bash/shell scripting for building automation and engineering tooling.
  • Practical experience designing building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines preferably using GitLab CI/CD and/or Jenkins.
  • Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes including application containerization deployments and environment management.
  • Experience with GitOps and deployment/configuration tooling such as ArgoCD Helm and Ansible.
  • Strong understanding of Git workflows versioning practices testing and modern software delivery principles.
  • An automation-first mindset and the ability to identify repetitive or manual processes and replace them with reliable scalable tooling.
  • Openness to using modern AI development tools to improve coding troubleshooting testing and engineering productivity.
  • Nice to have: experience with AWS/RDS Octopus Deploy Nexus or Artifactory Prometheus Grafana Rancher ELK SQL Server/DBA workflows secure SDLC/SOC environments or legacy application migrations.


What we offer:
  • Medical care
  • Life insurance
  • Multisport


Apply now

If you enjoy coding automation and platform engineering and want to build tools that make other engineers more productive this role gives you the opportunity to directly influence how software is built released and operated across the organization.

Apply via our careers page and please submit your CV in English.


Required Experience:

IC


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MOTIFE is a Krakow-based recruitment and consulting company that helps businesses scale up with high-quality tech talent from Poland. We specialize in nearshoring, staff augmentation, IT recruitment, executive search, operations setup, and management services including financial contr ... View more

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