Head of Engineering (m/f/d)

Festanstellung, Vollzeit · Cracow

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

As a Head of Engineering in HomeToGo’s Marketing Technology department, you will lead the teams powering our user acquisition and retention platforms. These systems are critical to engaging travelers across markets and delivering personalized experiences at scale. In this role, you’ll help shape the architecture and direction of our CRM and Paid Marketing infrastructure and applications while fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership. By bridging engineering with product strategy, you will enable data-driven, high-impact marketing initiatives that directly contribute to HomeToGo’s growth, profitability, and mission to make incredible accommodation easily accessible to everyone.

How you’ll add value

Build and empower a high-performing team: Within the first 3–6 months, you will have successfully onboarded and aligned with cohesive team of engineers, driving clear team rituals and growth frameworks, improved engineering satisfaction as measured by internal pulse surveys and delivery metrics
Deliver impact through strategic project ownership: By month 6, you will have led the execution of all major CRM and Paid Marketing initiatives on time and within scope, delivering measurable improvements in data reliability, campaign performance, or user engagement
Improve system scalability and maintainability: Within the first year, you will have introduced architectural improvements across core marketing services that reduce incident frequency and on-call load, while enabling faster iteration cycles
Streamline engineering operations and development workflows: You will have identified and resolved key bottlenecks in deployment pipelines, testing practices, or code review cycles, achieving a reduction in lead time from code to production without compromising quality
Act as a trusted strategic partner across teams: By collaborating with Product, Data, and Business stakeholders, you will have influenced roadmap prioritization and experimentation strategies—resulting in data-driven marketing capability launched that improves user engagement or conversion

You’ll be successful in this role if you

Have proven experience leading backend engineering teams in a product-centric environment
Have strong technical background in PHP (Symfony), Python (nice to have), and infrastructure experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and relational databases (e.g. MariaDB)
Have demonstrated ability to plan, lead, and deliver complex technical initiatives on time
Are skilled in coaching and growing engineers at various levels of seniority
Have excellent cross-functional collaboration skills with Product and Data stakeholders
Have ability to build technology roadmaps, communicate these to key business and technology stakeholders and achieve buy-in
Have ability to co-ordinate and manage technology incidents in a structured and methodical way, using them as growth and learning opportunities in a zero-blame culture
Are fluent in written and spoken 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

Salary range:
30 400 - 49 100 PLN + VAT (B2B)
25 300 - 40 800 PLN gross (Permanent)

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About us

HomeToGo is the SaaS-enabled marketplace with the world's largest selection of vacation rentals, listing millions of offers from thousands of trusted partners, including Booking.com, Vrbo and TripAdvisor. From vacation homes, cabins, beach houses, apartments, condos, house boats, castles, farm stays and everything in between, HomeToGo combines price, destination, dates and amenities to find the perfect accommodation for any trip worldwide.

Founded in 2014, HomeToGo operates localized apps & websites in more than 30 countries across Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Asia-Pacific. HomeToGo also operates brands such as Agriturismo.it, AMIVAC, atraveo, Casamundo, CaseVacanza.it, e-domizil, EscapadaRural, Kurzurlaub, Kurz Mal Weg, Tripping.com and Wimdu.

HomeToGo is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring and nurturing exceptional talent, representing various backgrounds, perspectives and skills. We are authentically candid and open-minded, fostering a safe environment for diverse opinions. Our hiring decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business needs. We do not discriminate against race, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, religion, political, ideological or religious views, disability or age.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a workforce of equality and diversity at HomeToGo and to provide opportunities to everyone. We therefore welcome your application even if you aren't completely confident that your experiences fit the job description criteria. We would really love to get to know you!

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