Staff Software Engineer I - Poland

Housecall Pro; United States; Remote; USD 92,000 - 108,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

MacBook + $500 workspace stipend

Equity

Paid holidays & flexible time off

Global team collaboration

Job summary

Housecall Pro is seeking a Staff Software Engineer I to lead architecture and development of high-impact systems. You’ll collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate business needs into reliable, scalable software.

You will mentor teammates, promote engineering best practices, and evaluate emerging technologies to improve efficiency and quality. This role focuses on building solutions for home service professionals and improving their daily operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with listed languages.
• BS in CS/Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Experience building web apps and with CMS systems.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable software addressing complex business needs.
• Lead architecture and design decisions for key initiatives.
• Collaborate with product, design and engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices.
• Review code and guide peers
• Investigate performance issues and optimize systems
• Document architecture and patterns
• Evaluate new technologies to improve quality
• Support team with AI tooling to boost output

Skills

Ruby on Rails

PHP

Python

JavaScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

WordPress

Strapi

Contentful

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Why Housecall Pro?

Help us build solutions that build better lives. At Housecall Pro, we show up to work every day to make a difference for real people: the home service professionals that support America's 100 million homes. We're all about the Pro, and dedicate our days to helping them streamline operations, scale their businesses, and-ultimately-save time so they can be with their families and live well.

While our headquarters are based in Denver, Colorado, our team spans the globe, with teammates across Brazil, Poland, the Philippines, Mexico, and beyond. We care deeply about our customers and foster a culture where our company, people and Pros grow and succeed together-no matter where they're based. Leadership is as focused on growing team members' careers as they expect their teams to be on creating solutions for Pros.

We also offer:

• Paid holidays and flexible, take-it-as-you-need-it scheduled time off
• A culture built on innovation that values big ideas, no matter where they come from
• A MacBook set up and ready from day one, plus a $500 stipend to design your ideal workspace
• Central European Time (CET) hours to support a balanced schedule for our Poland-based team
• Equity in a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier VCs

Role Overview:

As a Staff Software Engineer I, you serve as a technical leader who drives the architecture and development of complex, high-impact software systems across HCP. You apply deep engineering expertise to ambiguous technical challenges, establish scalable solutions and patterns, and influence engineering decisions beyond your immediate projects. You collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to translate business needs into reliable, performant, and maintainable systems. You also elevate engineering practices through technical mentorship, thoughtful design decisions, and continuous evaluation of emerging technologies and approaches.

Our team is passionate, empathetic, hard working, and above all else focused on improving the lives of our service professionals (our Pros). Our success is their success.

Compensation: 8 200 - 9 700 USD per month (B2B)

What you do each day:

• Design and implement scalable, high-quality software solutions that address complex business and technical requirements
• Lead technical architecture and design decisions for high-impact initiatives across multiple systems
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to define technical requirements, tradeoffs, and implementation approaches
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code that establishes and reinforces engineering best practices
• Conduct code and design reviews and provide actionable technical guidance to engineering peers
• Troubleshoot complex software issues and drive solutions through root-cause analysis and systematic problem solving
• Optimize application performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, architectural patterns, and reusable engineering standards
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend approaches that improve engineering quality, efficiency, or scalability
• Mentor and support engineers by sharing technical expertise and strengthening engineering capabilities across the team

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience using programming languages and frameworks (i.e. Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, JavaScript)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience
• Experience developing web applications and working with content management systems (i.e. WordPress, Strapi, Contentful)
• Strong understanding of designing, building, and consuming Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interfaces (APIs)
• Strong proficiency with version control systems and collaborative development workflows (i.e. Git)
• Knowledge of performance optimization techniques, caching mechanisms, and content delivery networks (CDNs)
• Experience with performance tuning, memory optimization, and related diagnostic tools
• Strong proficiency with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices
• Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, scalability, and reliability principles
• Proven experience driving team efficiency or output quality through the strategic use of AI tools and automation

What will help you succeed in this role:

• Ability to independently develop informed technical perspectives on complex and ambiguous systems
• Proactive approach to researching, evaluating, and applying current and emerging technologies
• Ability to influence technical direction and collaborate effectively across functions without relying on direct authority
• A multi-dimensional background with a breadth of cross-functional interests or depth of specialized mastery
• Personal resilience to learn from scratch, and successfully thrive in ambiguity

Our primary technology stack at HCP is Ruby.

To be effective in this role, you'll need to learn it.

We offer support in the learning process, tailored to your needs and any prior experience with Ruby. This may include mentoring from our experienced engineering team or access to a paid online course that you can complete during working hours as