Head of Engineering

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, houseboats, 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. 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. In this role, you will

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

What you will bring

Proven experience leading backend engineering teams in a product-centric environment

Strong technical background in PHP (Symfony), Python (nice to have), and infrastructure experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and relational databases (e.g. MariaDB)

Demonstrated ability to plan, lead, and deliver complex technical initiatives on time

Skilled in coaching and growing engineers at various levels of seniority

Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills with Product and Data stakeholders

Ability to build technology roadmaps, communicate these to key business and technology stakeholders and achieve buy-in

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

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)

If you have any questions, please contact me at jowita.dudek@nfq.com or via Linkedin

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