Paweł Kowalski
Paweł Kowalski

Senior Software Engineer

Actively looking · Member since 26 Aug 2026
Location
Poland
Desired salary
Confidential
Work preference
Remote Only / Full Time
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a T-shaped Senior Software Engineer with more than 15 years of full-stack experience. I build pixel-perfect React and React Native interfaces, distributed backend services, and scalable AWS infrastructure.

I specialize in performance, reliability, and cost optimization. My work has included reducing cloud spend, improving page-load performance, scaling serverless workloads, and designing systems for high-volume user and data flows.

I have extensive experience with JavaScript, Node.js, NestJS, Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, React, GraphQL, and event-driven microservices. I enjoy working across frontend, backend, testing, observability, and deployment workflows.

I have delivered products in fintech and enterprise environments, including peer-to-peer payments, KYC onboarding, authentication, licensing, and financial-services applications. I am comfortable collaborating with stakeholders, designers, QA engineers, and platform teams.

I value automated testing, observability, and pragmatic engineering practices. I have led E2E testing initiatives, mentored frontend developers, adopted AI-assisted development workflows, and contributed technical documentation and developer-facing content.

Notice period: Immediately

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Experience

Career history

Senior Software Engineer Klarna

Implemented peer-to-peer payment capabilities for a product serving more than 100 million users and 8 million daily active users. Built a request-money feature for Klarna and non-Klarna users in NestJS with a 200 ms performance budget, and integrated mission-critical Node.js microservices through GraphQL and distributed Kafka.

Improved product quality and operational stability through Playwright E2E and component tests, expanded RSpec coverage, and AI-assisted development workflows. Used DataDog, New Relic, Sentry, Sumo Logic, Kubernetes, and PagerDuty for observability and incident prevention; also reworked enterprise licensing, SSO with SAML/OAuth and 2FA, and CSV imports designed for more than 10 million records per month.

Senior Software Engineer Parallel Markets

Worked with stakeholders and designers to reduce onboarding friction while maintaining accuracy in KYC and tax-document validation. Reduced user onboarding time by 25%.

Developed and maintained an Elixir/Phoenix application with a React frontend using GraphQL and React Query. Implemented parallel Cypress test execution on GitHub Actions, reducing deployment time by 50%.

Senior Software Engineer platformOS

Built and optimized AWS serverless services, including S3/Lambda image processing with Sharp and a streaming S3/Lambda unzip service. Reduced AWS costs by 35% through EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, S3 storage-tier, spot-instance, and auto-scaling optimizations.

Introduced a GraphQL API to replace a deprecated REST API, created a Node.js CLI for client application validation and deployment, and established JavaScript quality and test automation on GitHub Actions. Led company-wide E2E testing adoption, trained QA teams, and contributed frontend/performance articles, documentation, and the marketing website.

Senior Frontend Engineer Capguru.io

Maintained a Ruby on Rails application and delivered frontend functionality for financial workflows.

Implemented capitalization-table calculations in Vanilla JavaScript, processing complex equity structures used for 409A valuations.

Senior Frontend Engineer EL Passion

Modernized a legacy frontend within three months while continuing to deliver assigned work. Reduced page-load time from 3.4 seconds to 1.9 seconds.

Mentored junior frontend developers and built custom interactive data visualizations, including organization charts, using D3.js and Highcharts.

JavaScript Engineer Citi

Developed and maintained a post-login banking service using JavaScript.

Worked on financial-services software in a banking environment.

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