Best Cities in Poland to Hire Software Developers in 2026

Choose the city around the role and the working model. Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw, Gdansk / Tricity, and Poznan all deserve a place in the comparison, but the right choice depends on what your team needs.

If you are opening a local engineering hub, compare relevant employers, role requirements, and the realistic commuting area before committing to a location. For genuinely remote roles, start with the skills you need and search across Poland. Limiting a specialist search to one city can rule out suitable engineers without helping you make a better hire.

Best Polish Cities for Hiring Developers: Quick Comparison

How to read the comparison: Employer examples identify relevant local work environments, not the number of engineers available to hire. ICT specialists, business-services employees, graduates, and software developers are different populations. The practical question is which candidates match your role, compensation, and attendance requirements.

Geographic IT Advertising Activity in H1 2026

The Just Join IT / RocketJobs barometer reports these Just Join IT location-level figures:

These are reported location totals, not unique local vacancies. The five entries exceed the report’s 47,082 IT advertisements overall. Its methodology does not explain the mismatch or remote/multiple-location allocation. Platform coverage and cross-posting can affect interpretation; the figures cannot establish developer supply or comparable city market shares.

Warsaw: Product Engineering, Data, and Technical Leadership

Put Warsaw on the shortlist if you are building a local team across software engineering, data, platform ownership, and technical leadership.

Samsung R&D Institute Poland identifies its Warsaw location and work in language and audio intelligence, network and cloud technology, and platform development. Allegro’s technology careers page lists Warsaw roles in backend, platform, data, AI, and engineering management.

Start with the hardest position to fill, then check whether the same location can support the other hires. For an office-based product or enterprise team, that is more useful than choosing Warsaw on reputation alone.

The Warsaw versus Krakow decision also becomes clearer when you look beyond job titles. An engineer who has operated a large consumer platform and one who has built industrial software may bring different experience to a backend role. Decide which background matters to your product.

Expect to compete with employers looking for comparable senior profiles. Clear responsibilities help candidates assess the opportunity. Their responses will also show whether your compensation and attendance policy are workable.

Krakow: International R&D and Industrial Software

Krakow’s R&D operations are particularly relevant to software that interacts with physical systems or communications technology.

ABB’s Krakow corporate research center describes electronics, embedded systems, power networks, and industrial software. Motorola Solutions’ 2023 overview of its Krakow operation documents communications and security engineering; its current R&D program information continues to identify locally based hybrid work.

If you are building an industrial or communications product, look for experience with device integration, complex system behavior, testing, and work across engineering disciplines. The programming language is only part of the brief. For a general backend or full-stack position, give more weight to production-service ownership and experience with the kind of product you are building.

Krakow can therefore be a good choice for a local engineering or R&D team when those backgrounds fit the work. Be careful about making domain expertise, a narrow stack, seniority, and frequent office attendance all nonnegotiable. The more requirements you combine, the more important it is to test the actual search before choosing the hub.

Wroclaw: Telecommunications R&D and Software Products

Wroclaw offers two different engineering environments to explore: telecommunications R&D and software-product development.

Nokia’s Wroclaw technology-center description identifies telecommunications software work from research and concept development through architecture, alongside R&D laboratories and technical validation. For networking and systems roles, this gives you a concrete local operation to examine.

Text, whose customer-service software business lists a Wroclaw office, adds a software-product perspective.

Hiring a network software engineer is a different search from finding someone to build and maintain a SaaS product. Networking roles call for attention to system behavior and validation. A SaaS search should emphasize product development, integrations, and service ownership.

Wroclaw belongs on the shortlist for both, provided you assess the right experience. A strong telecommunications background may help with architecture or testing; a platform role still calls for evidence that the candidate has operated production services.

Gdansk / Tricity: International Development and Device Software

Tricity covers Gdansk, Gdynia, and Sopot. The employer examples here concern Gdansk; the advertising figures above cover the wider metro area.

Amazon’s Gdansk location page describes a development center working on devices and services, including Alexa-related technology. Its Development Center overview also identifies a Gdansk-based software engineering team building Ring products.

Luxoft’s Polish locations page confirms a Gdansk office within its software-engineering delivery organization. The page describes its industry portfolio nationally, so check local project experience during sourcing.

For a role involving devices, shared equipment, or regular work with an office-based team, local recruitment may be the practical choice. First establish which tasks require physical presence. Access to equipment for part of the work does not necessarily mean every working day needs to be local.

The office address matters as much as the Tricity label. For hybrid recruitment, explain where the team meets and how often, then check whether candidates can make that commute. Gdansk, Gdynia, and Sopot should not be treated as one commuting neighborhood.

Prioritize Gdansk/Tricity when the engineering work fits the local operations described above or you need a team near a specific office. Define the search area around that requirement.

Poznan: Product Development and Technology Services

Poznan deserves an early look if you are building a product team across backend, mobile, and data engineering.

Allegro’s location-tagged technology roles include Poznan positions in Java/Kotlin development, mobile engineering, and data platforms. Start with the product work you need done and look for candidates with comparable responsibilities.

Sii’s Poznan branch describes software development, testing, and application-management activity. Its September 2025 branch update also documents the development of D365 and M365 competency centers.

That gives you two different searches to consider: product engineering and enterprise applications. A backend product engineer and a D365 specialist solve different problems, even if both sit under a broad software-development label. Make the responsibilities clear before sourcing.

Consider Poznan for a local product team or as another location in a search for backend, mobile, data, or enterprise-application experience. Its case rests on the work you can recruit for, rather than an assumed salary discount.

Which Polish City Should You Choose for Your Engineering Role?

The next step is to match the location to the job. Use the recommendations below to plan the search, then speak with qualified candidates before committing to an office or a hiring sequence.

Be specific about the skills that are essential. “Cloud experience” could mean application deployment, infrastructure ownership, security architecture, or a vendor-specific platform. Until you know which one you need, choosing a city will not make the search more focused.

Should You Hire Developers in One Polish City or Search Nationwide?

With the role defined, decide how often the engineer needs to be in the office. That determines how far you can realistically search.

The H1 2026 barometer reports 49% hybrid, 43% remote, and 8% onsite among Just Join IT advertisements. These describe platform advertising, not how all Polish developers work.

Fully onsite: Recruit Within a Realistic Local Area

Daily attendance limits the candidate pool to people who can commute or are willing to relocate. Office accessibility and travel expectations become part of the hiring decision.

Choose the city around the roles you need to fill, then assess the actual office location. A central office and one with inconvenient transport connections may attract different responses within the same city. State the attendance requirement before candidates invest time in interviews.

Hybrid: Define Attendance Before Expanding the Search

“Hybrid” does not tell a candidate enough. Frequent weekly attendance and occasional planned visits create very different search areas.

Specify the office, frequency, scheduling flexibility, and travel expectations. If regular attendance requires people to live nearby, make that clear rather than presenting the role as a nationwide opportunity. In Tricity, assess travel to the particular office instead of assuming every resident has an equivalent commute.

Remote-First: Search by Skills Across Poland

For a genuinely remote role, search Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw, Tricity, Poznan, and other Polish locations at the same time. A narrow specialty or senior-level requirement is a good reason to widen the search beyond one commuting area.

You still need to define permitted working locations, the approved employment or contract arrangement, time-zone overlap, onboarding, and occasional travel. Remote work does not automatically make cross-border engagement legally simpler.

International companies can recruit Polish engineers without opening a Polish client office. If you need additional capacity within an existing team, staff augmentation with engineers from Poland is a distinct route from recruiting employees directly. In either case, the agreed working arrangement should determine where you search.

How to Choose the Right Recruitment Location

Before choosing a city, work through these questions:

1. Does the role require regular office attendance? If yes, define the commuting area and relocation policy. If no, be clear about what a city restriction would achieve before imposing one.
2. Is the requirement broad or highly specialized? For a specialist, look for relevant employer and project backgrounds across several locations. For a broader role, assess candidates against a consistent technical brief.
3. Are you recruiting one engineer or building a local team? An individual hire can be sourced wherever the role permits. A hub needs to support the whole planned team, including leadership and difficult specialties.
4. How will you assess competition? Track qualified responses, compensation expectations, interview conversion, and offer decisions for your role. Advertising volume shows hiring activity, but it cannot tell you how many suitable people will consider your offer.
5. Can you widen the search? If the qualified local shortlist is too limited, reconsider attendance, relocation, or eligible locations before lowering the technical requirements.

Compare the Same Role Before Comparing City Costs

Regional salary aggregates can help frame a budget, but they do not price an equivalent hire. No Fluff Jobs’ September 2026 analysis reports medians of upper advertised salary limits across different role mixes.

Compare the same technology, seniority, responsibilities, work model, and contract type. Keep gross employment salaries separate from B2B invoice amounts excluding VAT.

For detailed compensation context, see the Polish IT market report. Our guide to hiring software developers in Poland covers engagement options, budgets, and the wider recruitment process.

Final Recommendation

Before committing to a local hub, test the search for your lead hire and most specialized role. Look at who responds, whether they meet the brief, and whether their compensation expectations and ability to attend the office fit your plans.

For a remote team, run those searches nationwide. Keep a city restriction only when it serves a defined operational need.

RemoDevs helps international companies recruit engineers from Poland. Share your role requirements and working model to discuss a sourcing approach for a local hub or a distributed team.

Kamil Klepusewicz

Growth Expert

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