Senior Go Backend Engineer - Hybrid Flight Data Systems

AirHelp; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 200,880 - 256,680; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Wellness budget

Travel stipend

Gym/transport subsidy

AirHelp services for free

Job summary

AirHelp is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build the Flight Data Systems, the real-time backbone ingesting and serving flight status, schedules, and disruption signals. You’ll primarily work in Go, delivering high-throughput, fault-tolerant services with ownership and strong testing discipline.

You’ll operate in a hybrid setup across Kraków, Warsaw, or Gdańsk, contributing to a modern stack (PostgreSQL, Snowflake, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) and collaborating across product and engineering

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Go backend experience.
• Experience designing high-throughput, data-intensive or event-driven systems.
• Strong concurrency, reliability, and performance trade-offs.
• Relational DB knowledge; PostgreSQL preferred.
• Experience with AWS and containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Ownership mindset; proactive problem-solving.
• Strong English communication.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale Go services that ingest flight data from many providers.
• Own performance, correctness, and uptime of Flight Data Systems.
• Lead modernization of critical parts of the platform and influence architecture.
• Ship production-ready code daily with strong testing discipline.
• Improve developer velocity with shared tooling and IaC.
• Mentor peers and raise engineering standards.
• Collaborate with product owners to translate data needs into robust systems.

Skills

Go programming

Tools

PostgreSQL

Snowflake

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

ELK/Grafana

Sentry

GitHub Actions

Playwright

k6

Job description

AirHelp is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build the Flight Data Systems, the real-time backbone ingesting and serving flight status, schedules, and disruption signals. You’ll primarily work in Go, delivering high-throughput, fault-tolerant services with ownership and strong testing discipline.

You’ll operate in a hybrid setup across Kraków, Warsaw, or Gdańsk, contributing to a modern stack (PostgreSQL, Snowflake, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) and collaborating across product and engineering