Job Description

Papaya Global is a rapidly growing, award-winning B2B tech unicorn with an ambitious mission to revolutionize the payroll & payments industry. With over $400M raised from multiple tier-one investors, our innovative technology provides a comprehensive solution for managing global workforces, encompassing everything from hiring and onboarding to managing and paying employees in over 160 countries.

We are looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our team in Krakow or remotely from anywhere in Poland.

Our Financial Compliance engineering team sits at the heart of that: we connect external systems, enforce data integrity, and expose reliable APIs that the rest of the platform depends on. The work is technically demanding - distributed systems, relational data at scale, strict correctness requirements - and deeply collaborative. We're a small team, we share knowledge openly, and nobody gets left alone on hard problems.

You Will:

• Build and maintain backend services in Java/Spring Boot - APIs, integrations with external systems, data processing and storage in relational databases
• Work with AWS services (S3, SQS, SES) as an integral part of building and connecting systems — infrastructure changes affect your work directly, and you'll need to understand what's under the hood.
• Contribute to frontend interfaces in TypeScript/React (roughly 20% of your time)
• Take part in technical and architectural discussions - your opinion matters, and you'll grow into bigger decisions over time
• Write clean, well-tested code and care about it staying that way through code reviews and pair programming
• Own observability of your services - we catch bugs from charts before users notice them, and we're proud of that
• Work closely with Product, DevOps, and other engineering teams to deliver end-to-end features
• Work in Scrum with a team that uses it as an advantage

Requirements

• Your IDE is not an obstacle for you but an almost invisible tool – we expect fluency in IntelliJ or VSCode or (Neo)Vim
• You have solid production experience with backend systems in Java - Spring, HTTP APIs, and relational databases are core parts of your background
• You have working knowledge of frontend development in TypeScript and React, even if the majority of your time is spent on the backend
• You actively use AI-powered development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or similar) as a standard part of your development workflow. We push beyond the comfort zone here and expect the same from you
• You have working knowledge of AWS services - S3, SQS, SES
• You have experience with CI/CD pipelines and take test automation seriously
• You think about non-functional requirements - availability, reliability, security, observability
• You write clean, readable code and maintain that standard through code reviews
• Fluent written and spoken English

Nice to have

• Experience building AI-powered applications — we are moving towards developing internal expert systems driven by LLMs, and contributions in this area are welcome from day one. Familiarity with AWS Bedrock is a plus
• Comfort working in fast-moving product teams with short delivery cycles, real demos, and tight MVP timelines — this is part of how we build new products at Papaya Global
• Basic familiarity with Terragrunt or similar IaC tooling