Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer (PHP) role stands out in a SaaS ecosystem where conversion, payments, and post purchase workflows are often the most leveraged parts of a product. Being anchored in a Checkout team signals a focus on revenue adjacent engineering, where reliability, latency, and user journey continuity tend to matter as much as feature delivery. For SaaS professionals, this is a domain that regularly intersects with experimentation, analytics, and platform constraints.
From a career perspective, work on checkout and post booking systems builds durable SaaS skills: designing resilient backend services, evolving APIs without breaking downstream consumers, and improving transactional flows that must remain observable and auditable. The collaboration described with Product and architects also points to experience shaping technical direction, a common step toward staff level impact in subscription and marketplace style SaaS businesses.
The role is best suited to engineers who prefer clear ownership over meaningful product surfaces and who enjoy translating business goals into technical trade offs. It fits someone comfortable working cross functionally, contributing to roadmaps, and balancing iterative improvements with foundational quality work. Candidates aiming to deepen backend expertise while staying close to measurable product outcomes should find the scope aligned.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer (PHP)
Kaunas, Cracow, Vilnius
Full-time
Permanent employee
Explore a new world of possibilities
At HomeToGo, we’re on a mission to make incredible accommodation easily accessible for everyone. Our team is united by a passion for travel, driven by innovation and impact, and guided by open-minded leaders at every level. Our commitment to recognizing and empowering exceptional talent is the foundation of our growth. An amazing journey of opportunity with an international team lies ahead - join us!
Your future contribution
Currently, we are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (PHP) for the Checkout team. You will play an essential role in our platform's success by joining the team responsible for enhancing the checkout process and post booking experience. Your expertise in PHP development will be instrumental in delivering seamless user experiences and optimizing the booking flow for our users.
How you’ll add value
Drive the implementation of technical initiatives to improve the quality of our product
Partner with Product to impact the roadmap and ensure engineering decisions align with user needs
Collaborate closely within a cross-functional team as well as other engineering teams to understand business requirements and ensure the timely delivery of features
Work closely with architects to identify and address technical challenges, ensuring the scalability, reliability, and usability of our Marketplace products
Take ownership of engineering decisions for larger topics and features
Be a part of a push to improve the product delivery process
You’ll be successful in this role if you
Have 5+ years of professional experience in backend development (ideally with PHP/Symfony)
Have an excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders
Are familiar with relational databases (e.g., MariaDB, PostgreSQL)
Have strong problem-solving skills and the ability to drive technical solutions in a fast-paced environment
Understand the fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
Have professional working proficiency in 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.
About us
HomeToGo is the SaaS-enabled 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 more than 30 countries across Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Asia-Pacific. HomeToGo also operates brands such as Agriturismo.it, AMIVAC, atraveo, Casamundo, CaseVacanza.it, e-domizil, EscapadaRural, Kurzurlaub, Kurz Mal Weg, Tripping.com and Wimdu.
HomeToGo is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring and nurturing exceptional talent, representing various backgrounds, perspectives and skills. We are authentically candid and open-minded, fostering a safe environment for diverse opinions. Our hiring decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business needs. We do not discriminate against race, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, religion, political, ideological or religious views, disability or age.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a workforce of equality and diversity at HomeToGo and to provide opportunities to everyone. We therefore welcome your application even if you aren't completely confident that your experiences fit the job description criteria. We would really love to get to know you!
