Software Engineer, FareHarbor
Platform Engineering, Europe
Office located in Central Amsterdam
Booking solutions for tour operators
Job no longer available
Booking solutions for tour operators
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Central Amsterdam
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make experiences better for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a software engineer first and foremost, but one who also has a strong understanding of scalability, distributed systems, performance and security fundamentals to help ensure that our systems remain high performing, secure and resilient
- 6+ years of experience working with large-scale, production systems and mission-critical codebases
- Proficient in Python with strong experience in Django or similar frameworks
- Demonstrated expertise in addressing performance bottlenecks, improving scalability, and optimizing developer workflows
- Familiarity with secure coding principles and ability to design APIs and services that are both performant and secure
- Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and modern authentication mechanisms (OAuth, JWT, etc.)
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and release engineering
- Comfortable working across the stack and collaborating across teams in a fast-paced, agile environment
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly
- Bonus: hands-on experience with platform security practices or operational security (e.g., Red/Blue/Purple team work)
What the job involves
- FareHarbor, a Booking holding Company, is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team in Amsterdam
- This role focuses on solving shared challenges across Product Teams, delivering reusable tools/components, and improving developer productivity, with security best practices as a key consideration
- Our platform supports tens of thousands of businesses daily, and our external APIs integrate with major partners such as Viator, TripAdvisor, and VELTRA, helping our clients expand their reach
- Design and implement complex backend systems with a strong focus on performance, scalability and security
- Build reliable, maintainable, and well-documented infrastructure and tooling that empowers internal developers and ensures high system availability
- Contribute to the evolution of our platform architecture, identifying areas to improve developer experience, system performance, and code maintainability
- Write clean, well-tested, production-quality code and reusable libraries that enhance engineering velocity across the organization
- Collaborate closely with security, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to identify and mitigate risks while balancing performance and usability
- Proactively drive initiatives around observability, performance tuning, API optimization, and CI/CD improvements
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems to continually improve system robustness and reliability
- Advocate for best practices in system design, performance-aware development, and secure coding across engineering teams
- Mentor and support other engineers in adopting scalable and maintainable development patterns
Application process
- Any offer of work (e.g. employment, assignment) will be subjected to the successful completion of pre-employment screening
Our take
Most holiday-goers in the US prefer to book their activities and experiences online - but when it comes to local operators, this isn’t always possible. FareHarbor has been developing software to help digitize the booking process for these smaller businesses and, over a decade, has brought thousands of them onto the books.
Along the way, FareHarbor also built up some strong momentum in the reservation management and distribution areas of the sector, which drove up the company’s valuation - making it a prime candidate for acquisition. Whilst TripAdvisor reportedly made multiple bids, FareHarbor ultimately went to Booking Holdings, the US’ largest vendor of tour company booking software.
This put FareHarbor in a strong position, enabling it to focus on customer acquisition (and insulating it somewhat from wobbles in the hospitality sector.) A 2025 global integration with Booking.com sees FareHarbor's network of operators gain direct reach to millions of travellers, while allowing Booking.com to expand its attractions offering.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2015
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $0.2m
Company HQ
Grachtengordel-Zuid, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Andrea Carini
(CEO)Formerly VP of Product Development at Otrium, spent 9 years in Product at Booking.com, and was Head of Product Management at YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP.
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