About the Position

Join us at Auctane as an Associate Software Engineer in Poland. Work on global technologies, develop backend applications, and collaborate with experienced teams.

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About the Role

As an Associate Software Engineer, you’ll join one of our engineering teams in Poland and work on projects that match your background, technical skills, and areas of interest. Depending on your experience and skillset, you may contribute to areas such as backend development, APIs, and/ or test automation across our different products and platforms.

You’ll work alongside experienced engineers, gaining hands-on experience with modern technologies and development practices while continuing to build your technical skills. Whether you’re starting your career or recently graduated, this is an opportunity to learn, take on meaningful challenges, and grow within our expanding engineering organization.

At Auctane, we value professionals at every stage of their career journey. For this role, we’re evaluating candidates with either a testing or software development background. If you’re excited to contribute to a newly formed team, we’d love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain backend applications using Java and Spring Boot. Design, build, and consume RESTful APIs.
Assist in developing and maintaining Business Process Management (BPM) workflows.
Learn and work with AWS services such as EC2 and S3.
Develop and maintain test automation solutions using Playwright and Java.
Write clean, maintainable code following framework patterns and best practices.
Execute comprehensive testing for new features and system changes.
Collaborate with engineers to design and implement automation scenarios.
Debug failures and investigate system issues.
Support CI/CD processes using GitHub and Jenkins.
Monitor application performance using tools such as Datadog and Elasticsearch under the guidance of senior engineers.
Troubleshoot and resolve software issues with support from the team.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environment.
Continuously learn new technologies and contribute to team knowledge sharing.

Requirements

Good knowledge of Java (Java 17+ preferred) with strong OOP fundamentals.
Understanding of Spring Boot and Spring Framework.
Knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles.
Basic understanding of RESTful API development.
Clean code practices.
Experience with at least one framework: Selenium, Playwright, or similar.
Understanding of test design principles.
Proficiency in Polish and English is required for this role.

Nice to Have

Knowledge of Microservices architecture.
Exposure to Docker or Kubernetes, and Jenkins or CI/CD pipelines.
Understanding of BDD/TDD concepts.
Contributions to GitHub or open-source projects.
Exposure to data-driven testing patterns (Excel, JSON, CSV).
Familiarity with API testing concepts and RestAssured.
Knowledge of Maven or other build tools.
Understanding of Guice or other dependency injection frameworks.
Lombok usage for code generation.

We Offer

🏢💻 Hybrid Framework – The best of both worlds! Work from home when you need focus and flexibility, and spend 2 days a week in the office for face-to-face collaboration, sharing ideas and catching up with the team. Because some things are simply better together!

📙 Personal Training Budget. Up to 7.000 year training budget (certifications, conferences attendance, etc.) to invest in your professional development. We want to help you improve your technical skills, feel involved in the product community, and develop your soft skills to lead teams and manage other stakeholders.

📺 Internal and external training, free access to online training platforms such as Linkedin Learning.

🗺️ Languages classes every week. Thirsty for knowledge? Learn a new language by joining our free English/Spanish/German classes. You can connect and enjoy taking up a new language or improving your current skills with one of our great instructors.

💜 Lunch card. Enjoy a subsidized lunch card and grab a meal with your teammates - because the best conversations often happen over lunch!

🏥 Free private medical insurance. Take care of your health with private medical care fully covered by us.

📄 Attractive life insurance. Extra peace of mind for you and your loved ones.

🏐 Co-financed Multisport card – We support an active lifestyle because staying healthy and feeling good matters.

😊 Volunteer day. You can take 16 hours per year in order to participate in volunteering activities!

🌅 Up to 30 days of vacation per year (additional days are granted along with seniority at AUCTANE).

💙 Up to 1000 PLN/year to match your NGO donations! We are happy to support your initiatives by duplicating the amount donated.

👩‍⚕️ We have an Employee Assistance Program with psychological assistance free of charge for you and your loved ones.

🗓️ Annual Salary Review: We are reviewing the salaries of all our teams annually in order to evaluate an increase according to individual performance and the business results.

Referral Fee 🔗 We need your support in hiring top-class talent! We offer a referral bonus of 4k-20k PLN, depending on the complexity of the role and the hiring process.

💜 An inclusive and upbeat work environment. Leave your suit behind… we’re a t-shirt and converse kind of place! More importantly, our company culture promotes diversity and inclusion. The personality and opinions of each of our team members are important and valid, and we aim to offer all employees a safe environment where they can be themselves and thrive.

🌍 A cross-cultural atmosphere. We are a truly international team of 20 nationalities that speak 10 languages. Our company language is English and all internal communication and company-wide meetings are in English.

🏟️ Company events. We do our best every day, even at our regular team-building events.

Contact Us

At AUCTANE we work in a hybrid model. This means that it’s up to you to choose whether you prefer office work, remote work or their combinations. Visits to the office will be necessary from time to time – you will set their frequency with your team. In the office, you have access to a workplace in a comfortable open space, fresh snacks and the best coffee in the city in our cafe and kitchen. You can use the relaxation rooms and our newly opened bookcrossing library. Working remotely, you use company equipment.

If you see a job offer for you on our website, click the Apply button and fill out the application form. If there is no position for you among our offers and you would like to see your future with us, please send us an email to [email protected] telling us about your experience and professional aspirations. Please attach your CV. We will see what we can offer you and contact you as soon as possible.

We do not like complicated recruitment processes, so we have developed a few simple steps that will allow us to get to know each other better. We start with a telephone conversation during which we will discuss your current professional situation, competencies and plans for the future. We will also answer your questions. After this initial, bilateral verification, we will arrange an online meeting with the manager of the area to which you are applying. If all goes to plan, we will welcome you to the team that you will have the opportunity to meet with before you start onboarding.

The recruitment interview is an opportunity to show your best side, but also the opportunity to get to know us better. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with our activities so that no question will surprise you, as well as with the requirements that we place on a person in a given position. We will ask you about your previous experiences, projects, and initiatives, as well as your strengths. We would like this meeting to be bilateral, so also prepare your own questions for us. We will answer each of them.

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