Software Engineer II - Poland

• 100% remote work
• 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

About the role

As a Software Engineer II, you bring growing technical depth, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to take ownership of features and components across the product. You focus on building scalable, reliable systems, writing well-structured code, and contributing to solutions that deliver real customer value.

We are currently hiring Software Engineers II to join one of two teams within our Platform organization: Identity & Access Management (IAM) or API. The IAM team focuses on authentication, authorization, and access management, ensuring users can access only the resources and functionality they are permitted to use. One of the team’s key projects involves Keycloak, an open-source Identity and Access Management solution. The API team owns and improves the backend API layer that powers the Housecall Pro application, with a strong current focus on application performance and creating a fast, reliable user experience.
In this role, you will elevate team effectiveness by sharing knowledge, contributing to design and code reviews. Our team is passionate, empathetic, and committed to improving the lives of our service professionals, our Pros. Your impact will help strengthen our product, enhance user experiences, and support the long-term success of the people we serve.

Compensation: 5,300 - 6,600 USD per month

What you’ll do

• Build a product that improves users’ lives (75k unique daily users, 4.6 ⭐at App Store) 👉 Learn more about the HCP product
• Design, build, and maintain reliable, performant, and maintainable software systems that deliver real value to users
• Take ownership of features or components from design through deployment, ensuring quality, scalability, and resilience
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to translate product goals into technical solutions
• Participate actively in architectural discussions, code reviews, and design sessions, contributing constructive feedback and new ideas
• Troubleshoot complex issues across the stack, identifying root causes and implementing robust fixes
• Help shape technical standards and best practices that promote consistency, maintainability, and performance
• Continuously grow your technical expertise and mentor more junior engineers through collaboration and example
• Explore and apply emerging technologies, including AI, to improve developer productivity, system quality, and product innovation

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of professional software engineering experience
• Solid understanding of software design principles, system architecture, and modern development practices
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, with a willingness to learn new ones as needed
• Experience building and maintaining production systems or applications, including debugging and performance optimization
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, able to work effectively across disciplines and teams
• A problem-solving mindset with the ability to balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
• Product-oriented thinking, motivated by building solutions that serve real customer needs
• Curiosity about emerging technologies and enthusiasm for learning and applying them
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to improve workflows, streamline execution, or enhance outputs
• Nice to have: experience with Ruby / Rails, event-driven architectures, MySQL at scale, or previous work on an internal platform or infrastructure team
• This position requires fluency in both Polish and English

What will help you succeed

• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to improve workflows, streamline execution, or enhance outputs
• Problem-solving mindset with the ability to balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
• Product-oriented thinking, motivated by building solutions that serve real customer needs
• Curiosity about emerging technologies and enthusiasm for learning (including a willingness to master Ruby)
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across disciplines and teams

How we work

You’ll join a small and senior squad focused on cross-cutting search concerns, working closely with Product Platform teams, IAM, DevOps, and SRE. We value clear ownership, pragmatic engineering, and iterating in small, safe steps. You’ll have room to shape our long-term search strategy while shipping meaningful improvements.

📌 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 part of your onboarding. The exact form of support will be agreed upon based on insights from your selection process.

Sounds interesting?

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This role is open to candidates in Poland. The specific salary for the successful candidate will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.