Head of Engineering

As theHead of Engineeringwithin our Marketplace team you will be crucial to HomeToGos success. This team is responsible for managing hundreds of partner integrations ensuring the ingestion of data for millions of properties into our platform and delivering accurate transformed and enriched data to our downstream consumers. Ultimately this work enhances the customer experience and ensure the success of our supplier partnerships.

Furthermore the team maintains the communication channels that allow other teams to interact with partners services. They also support the development of our property data standard and the back-office tools utilized by our support teams.

Our diverse and modern tech stack includes PHP C# MariaDB ElasticSearch Snowflake Redis Aerospike Apache Kafka RabbitMQ Docker Kubernetes and more. With terabytes of data and billions of records processed daily this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact. Apply now and be part of our team!

• Define and execute the technical strategy and roadmap for the Marketplace Inventory Supply domain ensuring alignment with overall company goals and product vision

• Directly manage 3 Engineering Teams including Engineering Leads and Senior Engineers fostering a high-performance culture and providing mentorship and career development

• Lead the quarterly planning process (e.g. OKRs) translating high-level business objectives into clear measurable and achievable engineering goals and delivery plans

• Oversee the entire engineering lifecycle for partner integrations and property data ingestion/transformation ensuring scalability reliability and accuracy of data for millions of properties

• Drive architectural excellence making key technology decisions to optimize our high-volume data-intensive platform (terabytes of data billions of records processed daily)

• Collaborate closely with Product Management and other cross-functional stakeholders to define requirements manage expectations and ensure timely high-quality delivery of features and initiatives

• Champion best practices in software development including code quality testing CI/CD monitoring and operational excellence across all teams

• Act as the primary technical point of contact for external partners managing technical relationships and guiding integration standards

• Have an extensive experience in a leadership role managing engineering teams ideally in a high-traffic data-intensive marketplace or e-commerce environment

• Have technical expertise in one or more areas of our tech stack (e.g. C# Symfony distributed systems high-volume data processing with Kafka/RabbitMQ large-scale databases like MariaDB/Snowflake/ElasticSearch)

• Have excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to articulate technical strategy to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Have experience working with product managers and business teams to translate requirements into technical roadmaps and deliverables

• Have demonstrated ability to foster a culture of technical excellence mentorship and continuous improvement

• Are familiarwith CI/CD pipelines cloud environments (e.g. Docker Kubernetes AWS/GCP) and modern monitoring and observability practices

• Have Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

• 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: 181 - 208 PLN/h VAT (B2B); 25 300 - 29 000 PLN gross (Permanent)

HomeToGo is the SaaS-enabled marketplace with the worlds largest selection of vacation rentals listing millions of offers from thousands of trusted partners including 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 AMIVAC atraveo Casamundo e-domizil EscapadaRural Kurzurlaub Kurz Mal Weg 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 arent completely confident that your experiences fit the job description criteria. We would really love to get to know you!