Hello everybody,
My name is Alex, I'm a software developer from Kyiv, Ukraine. I apologize for writing in English on this forum, but my knowledge of Polish language is a bit limited. I understand the majority of what I hear or read, but I'm not really able to speak or write myself when it goes beyond basic sentences.
A little bit about my background:
I currently live in Kyiv, Ukraine. I'm 31 y.o. My education level is Ph.D. in Computer Science (my thesis is about distributed data storages performance optimisation). I have around 7 years of hands on experience developing web applications using LAMP, Drupal, Zend Framework, Wordpress, CodeIgniter, JavaScript, HTML/CSS. I have extensive experience with high load projects, queries optimisation, NoSQL databases etc. I'm also a Zend Certified Engineer (PHP 5.3).
Besides that during last year I've been developing mobile applications for iOS using Objective-C/Cocoa.
I'm planning to move to Poland by the end of this year and therefore my question is, how much could a software developer with my knowledge and experience make in Warszaw? Currently in Kyiv I make $3500 a month, could I expect to make something like that in Poland?
I tried to browse Polish job websites, but it seems to me that Polish employers tend not to mention salary in job ads, so I literally have no idea about what I can expect. Could you also please advise some good Polish job websites? I looked at http://www.pracuj.pl/ and http://www.monsterpolska.pl/, but I am sure there must be more out there.
Would it be possible to find a job without speaking Polish fluently? Of course I'm really willing to learn Polish. My first language is Ukrainian, which is quite similar to Polish, so I am sure in a few months I'll be able to speak it.
When it comes to languages I speak fluent English, Ukrainian and Russian, intermediate German, intermediate French and basic Polish.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or advice. I would appreciate answers in any languages :)