Lead Software Systems Developer (C++)

Location: Krakow, Małopolskie, Poland; hybrid work with 3 chosen office days per week

Company

hirify.global is an AI-native travel technology company providing open, modular, cloud-native systems for airlines, hoteliers, agencies, and other travel partners.

What you will do

• Build, enhance, and maintain scalable applications and services supporting hirify.global's travel ecosystem.
• Create tools and workflows that reduce manual operational effort and improve engineering delivery confidence.
• Investigate production incidents, identify root causes, and deliver lasting fixes across code, infrastructure, and processes.
• Improve observability, automation, performance tuning, and incident response.
• Partner with developers, site reliability engineers, product teams, and other hirify.global teams on technical direction and operational readiness.

Requirements

• Professional experience developing production-grade software with C++17–23.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation; GCP experience is a plus.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, databases, Linux, networking, and software performance.
• Ability and willingness to learn core and supporting applications, tools, business logic, and related technologies.
• Experience with AI concepts, AI cost awareness, and AI tools or services, including assessing practical applications for software development, automation, and service operations.
• Collaborative engineering mindset, strong troubleshooting skills, and ownership from design through production support.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with three office days per week and flexible working hours.
• Year-end break, paid parental leave of up to 12 weeks, and up to 4 paid volunteer days annually.
• Medical coverage, foreign travel insurance, life insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, and wellness applications.
• Benefit cafeteria and Multisport card, tax deductions, Employee Capital Plans, baby bonus, and recognition rewards.
• Professional development through e-learning, live learning sessions, certification and tuition reimbursement, and knowledge-sharing communities.
• Office parking, relaxation facilities, parents' rooms, innovation laboratory equipment, and referral bonuses.