Head of Engineering
Company Overview
NFQ is a core technology partner for HomeToGo – a dedicated team of software engineers and data science professionals driving innovation to power a marketplace with the world’s largest selection of vacation rentals. We are expanding HomeToGo’s technology team in Lithuania and are looking for the brightest talents to join this growing company.
HomeToGo is the 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 25 countries across Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Asia-Pacific. HomeToGo also operates brands such as Agriturismo.it, AMIVAC, Casamundo, CaseVacanza.it, e-domizil, EscapadaRural, Tripping.com and Wimdu.
Job Summary
As the Head of Engineering within our Marketplace team, you will be crucial to HomeToGo's 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 Symfony, .NET 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!
Key Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements / Qualifications
- Extensive leadership experience managing engineering teams, ideally in a high-traffic, data-intensive marketplace or e-commerce environment
- 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)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate technical strategy to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working with product managers and business teams to translate requirements into technical roadmaps and deliverables
- Demonstrated ability to foster a culture of technical excellence, mentorship, and continuous improvement
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP), and modern monitoring and observability practices
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
Location
Krakow/Remote within Poland
Employment Type
Full-time /Hybrid
Salary & Benefits
- 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)
Application Process
If you have any questions, please contact me at [email protected] or via Linkedin.
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