Senior Software Engineer | Asana [31-36k PLN CoE]

Who are we?

We're Bee Talents, an IT recruitment agency that has been helping clients from all around the world in building their technical teams since 2015. Today, we would like to invite you to participate in the recruitment process for Asana.

Asana is a leading work management platform for human + AI collaboration. Over 170,000 customers like Accenture, Amazon, Anthropic, and Suzuki rely on Asana to align teams and accelerate organizational impact. Whether it’s managing strategic initiatives, cross-functional programs, or company-wide goals, Asana helps organizations bring clarity to complexity - turning plans into action with AI working alongside teams every step of the way.

The company was founded in 2008, now has around 2,000 employees across 13 offices worldwide, and is scaling rapidly. Warsaw is one of its fastest-growing hubs, currently with ~150 people, with an ambitious goal of becoming Asana’s largest global location in the coming years. They have been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation.

At Asana, they're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve their mission.

Currently, they're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who

• has around 6-12 years of commercial experience
• has experience as a Fullstack Engineer with a backend focus (to join a) AI, b) Infrastructure or c) Product team)
• is comfortable working on large, complex product systems
• is able to make independent technical decisions and understands their impact on both product and business-
• is flexible in terms of technology (JS, React, Node.js, AWS, SQL/NoSQL, diverse backgrounds are welcome).

Teams that we're looking people for

a) The AI Retrieval team powers the intelligence behind Asana's AI features by finding relevant work graph content and delivering it to LLM context windows. Our work enables AI features that truly understand your work - both within and outside of Asana - and use that understanding to take action. We also own Asana's traditional search experience.

b) The Infrastructure and c) The Product team builds features end-to-end. From designing our data models to implementing the subtle interaction behaviors that differentiate good software from great software. We work closely with UI designers and are supported by our infrastructure team. We aim to delight users with both large new features and smaller, daily product enhancements - thanks to our continuous deployment architecture. We want to create a superlative user experience, down to the smallest details.

Asana’s ecosystem includes a wide range of powerful apps that extend its capabilities and integrate it seamlessly into our users’ workflows. These apps help establish Asana as the shared collaboration infrastructure our customers use to get things done, spanning the full breadth of domains and departments. The Functional Integrations team in the Platform Area owns integrating Asana with the most valuable function-specific (think Operations, Marketing, or IT) tools, enabling experts on those teams to effectively share and communicate their work to the company as a whole.

What (client) can offer you

🎯 Role: Senior Software Engineer (a) on the AI Retrieval team, b)

💰 Salary: 31 - 36k PLN gross on CoE (Contract of Employment)

⏱ Working hours: flexible (in Polish working hours)

👩‍💻 Working mode: hybrid (3 days per week in the Warsaw office, usually Monday, Tuesday and Thursday)

📍 Office location: Warsaw, Marcina Kasprzaka 6 Street, 01-211 Warszawa, Poland

🇬🇧 Speaking language: English (min. B2/C1)

The biggest challenge in Senior Software Engineer role

a) in the AI Retrieval team, you'll build the systems that make Asana's AI smart and responsive. You'll tackle challenging problems in search and retrieval, working to improve the speed, cost-efficiency, and quality of our systems while expanding their capabilities to new data sources.

b) in the Infrastructure team, you won’t just code - you will be an integral part of the entire product development process, from conception to post-launch reflection.

c) in The Product Team, you'll be taking care deeply about customers and will be building products that improve the way millions of teams work together worldwide!

Daily tasks

a) in the AI Retrieval team

• Reducing the latency and cost of our retrieval system, making Asana's AI features faster and more efficient
• Improving the quality and relevance of search results to help users find exactly what they need
• Expanding the retrieval system's capabilities to query new Asana objects and third-party data sources
• Building and optimizing search infrastructure using OpenSearch/ElasticSearch
• Contributing to ML-powered features like embeddings-based retrieval and semantic search
• Collaborating with cross-functional partners in New York City while building strong relationships with your Warsaw-based peers.

b) in the Infrastructure and c) Product team

• Building and owning a broad swath of the product: everything from creating a compelling user interface down to creating efficient, flexible, and scalable back-end processing logic
• Participating in every step of the product development process with an open and curious team, working cross-functionally with a product manager, designer, user researcher, and data scientist
• Developing clean, beautiful code and leave it better than you found it
• Growing through opportunities to stretch and learn.

And for all teams - being an early employee in our growing Warsaw office, contributing to a culture that keeps Asana's workplace balanced, performant, inclusive, transparent, and aligned with their values!

What you’ll need?

• 6+ years of experience writing code in a production environment/in large, well-maintained codebases building user-facing products (integration development preferred), with professional experience in Javascript/Typescript (React and Node.js) or Go/Scala/Python
• Excellent communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional partners (e.g. PM, design) and cross-timezone with partner teams/Sound autonomous judgment when balancing moving quickly with producing quality, long-term maintainable code
• Passionate about creating a superlative user experience and attentive to details/Appreciate productivity and care deeply about helping teams collaborate more effectively and efficiently, including your own
• Demonstrating curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making
• Hands-on experience in search engineering, including with OpenSearch or ElasticSearch
• Experience with embeddings and machine learning approaches to search and retrieval
• Excited to be a part of an inclusive culture where everyone brings the aspects of themselves to the workplace that they need to thrive.

Additional pluses: Experience in an Applied AI role.

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What you’ll get?

• Salary of PLN 31,000 - 36,000 gross on CoE (Contract of Employment) with the option of 50% tax deductible costs for author’s rights usage in respect of applicable roles )
• Equity/RSU (Restricted Stock Units)
• Working in a small, cross-functional teams (6-8 people)
• Hybrid model of working (3 days per week in the Warsaw office)
• Flexibility within standard Polish working hours
• Benefits package including i. e.:
• private healthcare (LuxMed, including dental and travel coverage)
• development/career growth budget and home office setup budget
• meals (breakfast and lunch caterings) and sports subsidies (Gym/Fitness card)
• mental health support in Modern Health and Fertility healthcare and family-forming support with Carrot
• group life insurance.
• MacBook with all necessary accessories - full equipment for making your job awesome!