Senior Golang Software Engineer

About Wakacje.pl

We are an organization that has been fulfilling the travel dreams of Poles for 25 years. Wakacje.pl is the largest e-commerce platform in Poland and a network of travel agencies offering a wide range of travel products. Since 2015, we have been part of Wirtualna Polska Holding – the largest Polish group of media and e-commerce companies. At Wakacje.pl, we offer thousands of domestic and international trips, as well as travel insurance, airport parking, and holiday vouchers. We constantly expand our offer to best meet our customers' needs. If you approach life with #ENERGY, value #HONESTY AND OPENNESS, focus on #CUSTOMER UNDERSTANDING and #COLLABORATION at work, carry out your tasks with high #EFFICIENCY and #RESPONSIBILITY, and want to play a key role in making us #INNOVATIVE – join us! 

About us:
We are a growing team of over 100 IT specialists, including Developers, DevOps Engineers, Testers, Project Managers, Architects, and Analysts. We're driven by passion and engagement and prioritize a culture of open communication. A commitment to high code quality, robust test automation, and efficient processes is at the core of what we do. We work in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Key responsibilities:

• Architect & Build: Design, implement, and maintain high-performance Go-based applications for internal and external clients,

• Code Quality: Ensure clean, scalable, and maintainable code through strict reviews and best practices,

• Optimization: Proactively identify bottlenecks, optimizing existing solutions and overall application performance,

• Leadership & Mentoring: Act as a technical mentor for the team, supporting the Leader in creating Individual Development Plans (IDPs) and guiding developers through architectural changes,

• Innovation: Propose new ideas and select appropriate technologies to solve complex business problems,

• Collaboration: Work closely with IT teams and business stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver value,

• Testing: ensure reliability by creating comprehensive unit and integration tests.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 5 years focused on Go (Golang),

• Proven experience in designing and building distributed systems and microservices,

• Strong understanding of various architectural patterns (e.g., Hexagonal, Clean Architecture),

• Proficiency with relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL,

• Hands-on experience with REST APIs and gRPC,

• Familiarity with the Gin Framework,

• Experience with ElasticSearch and Redis,

• English proficiency at a B2 level (communicative).

Nice to have:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines,

• Knowledge of message brokers: Kafka or RabbitMQ,

• Observability tools: Kibana, Grafana, Sentry,

• Practical understanding of DDD (Domain-Driven Design),

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum methodologies,

• Track record of process optimization and improving development workflows.

What do we offer:

Workplace safety and comfort:

• Employment based on an employment contract or B2B,

• Full support during the onboarding period under the supervision of an engaging leader/buddy.

Business agency and agility:

• Real influence on business decisions, the ability to take initiatives and implement your ideas.

Development within the organization:

• Individual Development Plan,

• Participation in training courses and conferences to enhance professional competencies. 

All-inclusive for Employees:

• A benefits package that you can use according to your preferences – Lux Med medical care, Health and Life Insurance (PZU and Warta), Multisport card, shopping and lunch vouchers, and many other cafeteria offers available on the Worksmile platform,  

• Study Tour – trips abroad to explore our product offerings (destination tours and hotel audits),

• A training and webinar package supporting professional and personal development,

• Discounts on our products for employees and their families,

• Possible to work from one of our office in Gdańsk (Alchemia office complex), Wrocław (Legnicka Business Garden), Warsaw (Włochy Business Garden) or remote from Poland.

• Hybrid Work Model: : Great flexibility - depends on your preferences, works from the office at least once a quarter

• Casual dress code.

Ready to join the team with a #travelmindset? We’re waiting for you!

Tech stack

• Golang
• gRPC
• REST API
• CI/CD
• Kubernetes
• Kibana
• PostgreSQL
• Gin Framework
• Elasticsearch
• DDD