Backend Tech Lead – Engineering Platform, IDP, Backstage

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🕒 April 27

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Internas

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🌾 Agriculture

🛒 Retail

🛍️ eCommerce

Agriculture • Retail • eCommerce

Internas is a Polish wholesaler and retailer of gardening and outdoor-living products, offering a catalogue of about 15,000 items including seeds, bulbs, seedlings, shrubs and trees, soils, fertilizers, plant protection products, gardening tools, irrigation equipment, and seasonal goods. Operating for 25 years, Internas serves both retail customers through brick-and-mortar stores and online shops and business customers via wholesale distribution from its central warehouse and an additional market branch, offering professional buying support, its own delivery fleet, and fast logistics.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical implementation and evolution of engineering platforms (IDP) based on Backstage, defining the architecture vision, roadmap, and deployment. • Drive the migration strategy from legacy platforms to the new IDP, ensuring safe, gradual transitions aligned with business objectives. • Make and defend foundational architectural decisions (template patterns, environment, plugin/extension strategy, catalog), balancing cost, performance, risk, and time-to-value. • Implement patterns and guardrails for CI/CD, IaC, observability, security, and platform operations. • Orchestrate technical work across DevOps, developers, and architects, removing blockers and ensuring a steady delivery cadence. • Act as a senior technical liaison with engineering, Cloud, security, architecture, and C-level stakeholders, translating technical trade-offs into business impact. • Define and evolve the strategy for golden paths, Software Templates, TechDocs, and Backstage Scaffolder, ensuring scale, reuse, and developer experience (DevEx). • Establish the observability strategy, SLOs, DORA metrics, and platform metrics (adoption, internal NPS, lead time, change failure rate) to demonstrate value and guide prioritization. • Lead the adoption of DevOps, GitOps, and Platform Engineering as the standard operating model, supporting clients' technical maturity. • Mentor and develop engineers on the team, raising the collective technical level through code reviews, design reviews, pair programming, and learning rituals. • Conduct technical discovery and produce ADRs, ensuring traceability of decisions and alignment with stakeholders. • Address technical, compliance, and operational-continuity risks, acting proactively in transition and modernization scenarios. • Represent the technical practice in internal forums and with clients, contributing to the evolution of the offering, delivery standards, and team enablement.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience technically leading Platform Engineering or IDP initiatives, ideally with Backstage (Scaffolder, Software Catalog, TechDocs, custom plugins, and integrations). • Advanced proficiency in programming languages (TypeScript/Node.js strongly preferred due to the Backstage ecosystem; Python, Go, Java, or C# are also valued for templates). • Strong knowledge of software architecture and distributed systems, with experience designing resilient solutions for high-criticality environments. • Experience in cloud environments (AWS or Azure), including landing zone models, security, networking, and cost management. • Proficiency in containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS/AKS), including migration scenarios from legacy environments. • Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) with a focus on governance, reusable modules, scalability, and patterns for multiple teams. • Experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and end-to-end automation of the delivery lifecycle. • Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, ELK, or equivalents). • Understanding of platform security (IAM, secrets management).

🏖️ Benefits

• We value continuous growth for Zuppers, encouraging each person to pursue paths that drive their professional development.