Senior Go Engineer: Real-Time Flight Data Systems (Hybrid Poland)

AirHelp; Kraków; 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 own the Flight Data Systems, building high-throughput Go services that ingest, normalize, and serve flight status and disruption signals. You will work primarily in Go, contributing to a real-time data backbone used by millions of travellers worldwide.

The role is hybrid, with options to be based in Kraków, Warsaw, or Gdańsk. Expect daily deployments, ownership mindset, and collaboration across platforms, with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with significant depth in Go building production backend services.
• Proven experience designing and operating high-throughput, data-intensive or event-driven systems.
• Strong grasp of concurrency, reliability, and performance trade-offs.
• Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and data modeling for evolving real-world data.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale Go services ingesting flight data from multiple providers.
• Own performance, correctness, and uptime of Flight Data Systems.
• Lead modernization and optimization of critical platform components across services.
• Ship production-ready code daily with strong testing discipline.
• Improve developer velocity through tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
• Mentor peers and enforce engineering standards via code reviews and design discussions.
• Collaborate with product owners to frame problems and translate requirements into robust systems.

Skills

Go

High‑throughput systems

Cloud

Concurrency

English (communication)

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Snowflake

GitHub Actions

Bruno

Playwright

k6

Job description

AirHelp is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own the Flight Data Systems, building high-throughput Go services that ingest, normalize, and serve flight status and disruption signals. You will work primarily in Go, contributing to a real-time data backbone used by millions of travellers worldwide.

The role is hybrid, with options to be based in Kraków, Warsaw, or Gdańsk. Expect daily deployments, ownership mindset, and collaboration across platforms, with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform