Mid-Level Java Backend Developer, Byway
£55-65k
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Flight free travel company
Posted today
Flight free travel company
21-100 employees
Posted today
£55-65k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
Byway's mission is to make slow travel holidays mainstream.
Role
Who you are
- Our ideal candidate will be comfortable managing multiple tasks, staying calm under pressure, and delivering high quality code with an attention to detail
- If you have a knack for turning challenges into solutions and communicating about technology in plain English, we’d love to hear from you!
- Significant experience writing high quality multi-threaded code in Java 11/14/17/21 using Spring Boot & JPA (or similar frameworks)
- Experience calling both JSON/REST and XML/SOAP APIs
- Experience in working with SQL and writing complex queries
- A strong mathematical and/or computer science background and passing familiarity with Travelling Salesman, Knapsack and similar computational problems
- A love for systems and an ability to think through and plan for their life cycles, edge cases, interactions, and failure modes
- An ability to balance speed of iteration and quality of code: we need to build fast without compromising reliability and usability
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to convert business requirements to code and explain complex concepts to the business
Desirable
- Experience with travel and hospitality systems and/or Postgres / GIS
- Experience of front-end development and/or DevOps and agile processes
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a mid-level Java developer to join our backend team. You'll be working building our first-of-its-kind flight-free Journey AI technology
- Your code will make a difference to our team and customers daily: your impact will be direct and visible
- You’ll report directly to our backend team lead Chris Smith, and work closely with the rest of the tech team, our CTO Rich Levy and across the business
- Build and develop our Journey AI technology for flight-free holidays
- Alongside an experienced team, architect, design and develop a large, complex and unique technical project (backed by a £5m Series A raise)
- Work directly in our infrastructure layer, interacting with transport and accommodation providers and taking responsibility for third party API integrations
- Participate in the product development process from start to finish, from helping scope stories & projects to measuring their success and iterating based on user feedback
- Work with non-technical members of staff to support & improve business processes with pragmatic, effective solutions
- Work on data pipelines, extracting data from databases or APIs and filtering/transforming the data into new systems
Application process
- If we like your application, we’ll send over some technical questions for you to answer based on your experience to date. After that, we'll schedule a 15-minute call to tell you a bit more about the role and give you a chance to ask any questions that you might have
- This would then be followed by a discussion-based problem-solving session, before the final stage interview, which would be with Chris and a member of our senior leadership team. If that goes well, we move to job offer and references!
- Applications close: 23rd February
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Byway arrange no-fly holidays for eco-conscious travellers, where participants voyage by way of trains, boats, and buses only, spending time at local accommodation and hidden stop-off points along the way. It’s a neat idea, and the relatively young company has been getting some high-profile attention for it.
This is in part because Byway’s timing has been astute. Firstly, their model chimes neatly with the growing interest in low-carbon, low-impact activities that have been a major part of public conversation over recent years. Secondly, it dovetails with the renewed interest in ‘staycations’ following the period of restricted international travel. And finally, it pitches itself at that evergreen category of traveller keen to experience something a little more local and authentic on their travels - see, for example, the success of platforms like Atlas Obscura, or (arguably) Airbnb.
Byway are enjoying resounding approval from customers, which is remarkable given the operational complexity of timetabling these kinds of journey. With eco-focused trends expected to continue going forwards, and the firm foundation that Byway have laid for themselves in these first few years, the innovative company could go on to have real industry impact.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
64% female employees
Company
Employee endorsements
Meaningful work
"At Byway we are working on greenfield projects with the potential to make a high, positive social impact. Not only to address climate change but to..."
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2024
$6.4m
SERIES A
Jul 2021
$1.4m
GRANT
Total funding: $7.8m
Company benefits
- ⏰ Flexible hours - 80 hours over two weeks whenever you want, with 4 hour meeting free blocks between 9-5 and meeting free Thursdays
- 👋 Co-working office credits - optional team work time or get out of the house
- 🚂 Annual ‘Byway Away’ days - a whole weekday to spend with the team, not working, in the fresh air, bonding with one another
- 🏖️ Byway Holiday - a budget-friendly Byway holiday per year at a cost price for you and your immediate family. A great way to explore amazing destinations by benefitting from our trade discounts and interrail pricing!
- 👫 Be part of our founding team - an opportunity to have shares in Byway for permanent team members
- 🏡 Remote-first - whether you prefer working from home or while travelling, we trust you to do your best work and commit to your working goals.
- 📆 Hybrid remote with 2 days/month in London - come together each month for focused team and strategy time.
Company values
- Love the journey 🚂 - making slow travel mainstream is a journey we approach with the optimism and openness needed to learn and grow. We look after each other, celebrate wins and strive do better.
- Trust and be trusted 🤝 - trust in each other is the foundation of our team. We collaborate and support one another in line with our mission. We share insights widely, are grounded in openness, and welcome peer reviews.
- Mainstream means everyone 🌎 - we're ensuring we're for everyone by seeking out diverse perspectives and listening, respecting, amplifying and supporting all the people our product affects, especially our team.
Company HQ
Spitalfields, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Cat Jones
(CEO)Spent ten years at Unruly, ultimately serving as the Global SVP of Data, before moving on to work as Managing Director of Travel and Media at Founders Factory.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Byway
- We are aware of, celebrate and learn from our differences including ethnicity, gender, age, ability, sexual orientation, religion, background and experience.
- We do not accept discrimination, hate or harassment (including slurs, hate speech, coded language, micro-aggressions, stereotypes, deadnaming, misgendering, hate symbols).
- One of our three company values is "mainstream means everyone". By this we mean that we're making slow travel mainstream so our product should be for everyone.
- We're ensuring we are for everyone by seeking out diverse perspectives and listening, respecting, amplifying and supporting all the people our product affects, especially our team.
- We value and actively hire for diversity and empathy. We make space for the many ways people prefer to contribute, as we encourage and appreciate everyone's ideas.
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