Senior Software Engineer (API Platform) - Poland at Housecall Pro

, , Poland -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

25 Feb, 26

Salary

8000.0

Posted On

28 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Backend Engineering, Distributed Systems, API Design, REST, gRPC, Production Observability, Reliability, Caching, Rate Limiting, Performance Tuning, Ruby, Rails, Identity Management, Event-Driven Architectures, MySQL

Industry

Software Development

Description

Who are we? Founded in 2013, Housecall Pro helps home service professionals (Pros) streamline every aspect of their business. With easy-to-use tools for scheduling, dispatching, payments, and more, Housecall Pro enables Pros to save time, grow profitably, and provide best-in-class service. Housecall Pro’s brand portfolio includes Business Coaching by Housecall Pro, a business coaching solution for home services businesses. Our brands are united by a singular mission to champion our Pros to success. We support more than 40,000 businesses and have over 1,800 ambitious, mission-driven, genuinely fun-loving teammates across the globe (half of the engineering team is in Poland 🇵🇱). If you want to do work that impacts real people, supported by a team that will invest in you every step of the way, we’d love to hear from you. Housecall Pro celebrates diversity, and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. About the role We’re creating a new API Platform Squad within our Core Platform organization to make APIs a first-class product across Housecall Pro. API Platform defines the standards and owns the shared capabilities that underpin our API ecosystem and partners closely with other engineering squads to help them move faster with confidence. As a Senior Software Engineer on the API Platform Squad, you’ll work on the foundations that make our APIs discoverable, consistent, secure, and resilient at scale. You’ll design and build services, libraries, and tooling that support the full API lifecycle - from design and documentation through observability, performance, and deprecation. Compensation: 6,500 - 8,000 USD per month (B2B) We also offer: Paid time off Flexible work hours 100% remote work Equity shares in a rapidly growing company backed by top-tier VCs A culture built on innovation that values big ideas We work in Central European Time Newest MacBook + Setup Fee ($500) 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 and build platform services and tooling that support API design, documentation, discovery, observability and lifecycle management Help define and roll out conventions for resource modeling, versioning, error handling and other core API design concerns Implement and improve cross-cutting capabilities such as API monitoring, logging, rate limiting, caching and throttling Participate in system design and architectural discussions focused on performance, scalability, reliability and distributed systems concerns Mentor other engineers in API design, distributed systems, and platform thinking, and help evangelize best practices across the organization What you bring 5+ years of experience as a backend or platform engineer working on large-scale, distributed systems Experience with at least one modern server-side stack (e.g., Ruby/Rails, Python, Java, Kotlin, Node, etc.) Proven track record of designing and implementing APIs (REST and/or gRPC), including versioning and handling breaking changes Hands-on experience with production observability and reliability Practical knowledge of caching, rate limiting, and performance tuning for networked services Strong communication skills and comfort working in a remote-first, asynchronous environment Nice to have: experience with Ruby / Rails, experience with Identity and Access Management, event-driven architectures, MySQL at scale, or previous work on an internal platform or infrastructure team How we work You’ll join a small and senior squad focused on cross-cutting API 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 API 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. If you’re excited about building the foundations of an API-driven platform and enabling other teams to move faster with confidence, we’d love to talk. Sounds interesting? We're waiting for your resume! 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.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer on the API Platform Squad, you’ll design and build services, libraries, and tooling that support the full API lifecycle. You will also help define and roll out conventions for resource modeling, versioning, and error handling.