Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead - Cracow

NFQ Group; Kraków; On-site; PLN 195,000 - 326,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible hours

Team events

Job summary

NFQ is expanding HomeToGo’s technology team in Kraków and seeks a Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead to manage one of our Consumer Product teams. You\'ll lead engineers, drive delivery processes, and shape technical strategy across Symfony, MariaDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and more.

You will partner with product, own roadmap alignment, ensure scalability and reliability, mentor engineers, and champion AI-assisted development tools.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience leading and managing engineering teams.
• Proficiency in PHP and/or JavaScript/TypeScript and experience with relevant frameworks.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to keep the team focused on key initiatives while maintaining operational excellence.
• Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., MariaDB, PostgreSQL).
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to drive technical solutions in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in working with agile projects, setting KPIs, defining and executing OKRs.
• Understanding the fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of engineers to high performance.
• Drive improvements to product delivery processes and roadmaps.
• Shape technical strategies to improve product quality.
• Partner with Product to align engineering decisions with user needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of features.
• Address technical challenges to ensure scalability, reliability, and usability of Marketplace products.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Promote adoption of AI-assisted development tools.
• Manage project timelines, resources, and priorities to meet business goals.

Skills

Team leadership

PHP

JavaScript/TypeScript

English proficiency

Agile / project management

KPIs / OKRs

Problem solving

Relational databases

Tools

MariaDB

PostgreSQL

Apache Kafka

RabbitMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

ElasticSearch

Snowflake

Redis

Aerospike

Job description

NFQ is expanding HomeToGo’s technology team in Kraków and seeks a Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead to manage one of our Consumer Product teams. You\'ll lead engineers, drive delivery processes, and shape technical strategy across Symfony, MariaDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and more.

You will partner with product, own roadmap alignment, ensure scalability and reliability, mentor engineers, and champion AI-assisted development tools.