Senior Software Engineer (PHP)

HomeToGo; Kraków; On-site; PLN 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities

Health insurance

Flexible working hours

Language courses

Team building & events

Business trips to Berlin

Office perks

Mentoring from international team

Job summary

HomeToGo is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Cracow to join one of our Consumer Product teams. You will work on a modern stack including Symfony, MariaDB, ElasticSearch, Snowflake, Redis, Aerospike, RabbitMQ, Docker and Kubernetes, impacting a product with millions of listed properties.

You will collaborate with product to shape the roadmap, work across cross-functional teams, and own significant engineering decisions to ensure scalable and reliable marketplace features.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in backend development, preferably with PHP/Symfony.
• Fluent in English and able to collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
• Familiarity with relational databases such as MariaDB or PostgreSQL.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to design scalable applications.

Responsibilities

• Drive the implementation of technical initiatives to improve the quality of our product.
• Partner with Product to impact the roadmap and ensure engineering decisions align with user needs.
• Collaborate closely within a cross-functional team and with other engineering teams to deliver features on time.
• Work with architects to address challenges, ensuring scalability, reliability, and usability of Marketplace products.
• Take ownership of engineering decisions for larger topics and features.
• Contribute to improving the product delivery process.

Skills

Backend development

PHP/Symfony

English

Relational databases

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

RabbitMQ

Redis

ElasticSearch

Snowflake

MariaDB

Job description

Explore a new world of possibilities

At HomeToGo, we’re on a mission to make incredible accommodation easily accessible for everyone. Our team is united by a passion for travel, driven by innovation and impact, and guided by open-minded leaders at every level. Our commitment to recognizing and empowering exceptional talent is the foundation of our growth. We are actively hiring candidates from all around the world, including sponsoring visas for Germany. An amazing journey of opportunity with an international team lies ahead - join us!

Your future contribution

Join our team as a Senior Software Engineer in Cracow, where you'll play a vital role in the success of HomeToGo. We're looking for an experienced software engineer to be a part of one of our Consumer Product teams. Our diverse and modern tech stack includes Symfony, MariaDB, ElasticSearch, Snowflake, Redis, Aerospike, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, and more. With millions of properties listed on our product, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact.

How you’ll add value

• Drive the implementation of technical initiatives to improve the quality of our product
• Partner with Product to impact the roadmap and ensure engineering decisions align with user needs
• Collaborate closely within a cross-functional team as well as other engineering teams to understand business requirements and ensure the timely delivery of features
• Work closely with architects to identify and address technical challenges, ensuring the scalability, reliability, and usability of our Marketplace products
• Take ownership of engineering decisions for larger topics and features
• Be a part of a push to improve the product delivery process

You’ll be successful in this role if you

• Have 5+ years of professional experience in backend development (ideally with PHP/Symfony)
• Have excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders
• Are familiar with relational databases (e.g., MariaDB, PostgreSQL)
• Have strong problem-solving skills and the ability to drive technical solutions in a fast-paced environment
• Understand the fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Are fluent in English

What we offer

• Career of growth opportunities and promotions, 360 feedback, performance evaluation system, and mentoring from an international and distinguished team
• Culture of empowerment, trust, recognition, autonomy and quarterly transparency about company goals. A focus on work-life balance, combined with consistent collaboration and support from a team of 30+ nationalities
• Compensation of attractive salary, health insurance, additional holidays, flexible working hours, language courses, employee-led workshops, office perks, frequent team building and company events, business trips to Berlin