Principal Application Architect (Cloud-Native)

Location: Kraków, Poland; hybrid work with 3 days per week in the office

Company

hirify.global is an AI-native travel technology company providing open, modular, cloud-native platforms for travel retailing, distribution, and fulfillment.

What you will do

• Act as the architectural authority for CIAS platforms supporting stability, performance, security, resilience, and correctness.
• Define long-term architectural vision, modernization roadmaps, blueprints, domain models, integration patterns, and target-state architectures.
• Lead the design and evolution of large-scale, distributed, cloud-native identity and access platforms operating at thousands of transactions per second with 10–100 ms response times.
• Guide complex design decisions, architectural governance, deep-dive design reviews, critical code reviews, and production readiness assessments.
• Partner with product, engineering, and solutions architecture leaders to align platform architecture with business and performance requirements.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical and business stakeholders across CIAS and hirify.global.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, application architecture, or technical leadership.
• Experience architecting and delivering large-scale, distributed, cloud-based systems.
• Ownership of non-functional requirements including performance, availability, security, and resilience for mission-critical platforms.
• Deep expertise in application architecture, including microservices, domain-driven design, and API-first design.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native platforms, including Kubernetes; public cloud experience such as GCP is preferred.
• Experience defining architectural standards, guiding modernization, and influencing delivery across multiple teams.
• Strong analytical and architectural modeling skills for reasoning about complex systems at scale.
• Experience establishing or governing CI/CD standards, testing strategies, quality gates, automated testing, and secure delivery practices.
• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum environments, plus the ability to diagnose complex production issues without being the primary on-call implementer.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with senior technical and business stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with hybrid work based in the Kraków office.
• Paid time off, additional paid year-end break days, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, and up to 4 days of paid volunteer time annually.
• Medical coverage, foreign travel insurance, life insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Benefit cafeteria and Multisport card, tax deduction opportunities, employee savings plans, and a baby bonus.
• Professional development through Udemy, live learning sessions, certification and tuition reimbursement, and knowledge-sharing communities.
• Modern office amenities, Innovation Lab access, parking, flexible workplace facilities, and a $2,500 referral bonus for each hired referral.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed against the position criteria.
• Only candidates meeting the minimum requirements proceed in the selection process and receive further notifications.