Senior Backend Engineer, Tiqets
2-3 days a week in office
Digital ticketing platform for museums and attractions
Job no longer available
Digital ticketing platform for museums and attractions
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
2-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
Tiqet's mission is to make culture more accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
- At least 5 years of professional experience as a developer working in an agile product development environment
- Fluent in Python. Skilled in other programming languages like Ruby, Java, C#, Go, Javascript is cool, but not necessary
- Good understanding of relational databases like PostgreSQL
- Experience with AWS cloud stack or alternatives
- Able to translate requirements into well-designed technical solutions and effective communication skills
What the job involves
- As a senior backend engineer, you will be part of our B2B, B2C, or enabler teams. Our B2B and B2C teams focus on optimising the connection with our venues and suppliers, making tickets available to customers and distributors, ensuring the optimal checkout experience both on web and our App. The Enabler teams power the growth of Tiqets on the operational, technical, and business sides
- Solve and code complicated, technical problems and ensure the code is performant, readable, well-structured, has automated tests, and follows our architecture, using primarily Python 3.x, Flask, SQLAlchemy, and Django
- Find the right solution. Not taking too many shortcuts or overengineering
- Communicate and act proactively. Help each other across team boundaries
- Refactor a piece of legacy code to make it more scalable
- Review your teammates’ merge requests and give them practical feedback
- Join the weekly tech sync to discuss cross team and technical roadmap issues
- Write a POC in a week to test viability of a potential big feature
- Investigate with our platform team why our celery workers mysteriously do not pick up tasks for 5 minutes after a deploy
Our take
Museums and attractions might have had people tolerating lengthy ticket-booth queues in the past, but the rising tide of digital transformation has today’s visitors expecting more. With many museums in particular operating on precarious funding models, they can’t afford to lose visitors, so Tiqet’s simple digital ticketing platform should offer something of a lifeline.
Tiqet’s easy browse-and-buy selection of e-tickets to top locations across the globe has proven especially useful - both for facilitating greater footfall, and for converting visitors to repeat customers with data gathering and analytics. It is this latter point that may prove especially useful: with an increasing proportion of museums' and attractions' revenue coming from gift shops and cafés, rather than ticket sales themselves, they are increasingly pivoting towards a consumer model. Consequently, they will need to keep a tighter finger on the pulse of consumer demand.
What bodes especially well for Tiqet has been a impressive funding round led by travel giant Airbnb, who offered guidance and collaboration to the startup. The company has led digital transformation in a key aspect of the tourism industry, and has made several advantageous partnerships with companies such as Klook and RUNNR.ai.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Young, energetic, international work environment
- Bright, welcoming office located in the centre of Amsterdam
- Competitive salary and paid holiday leave
- Tiqets' learning academy: skill lab, group & individual learning
- Annual company getaway to undisclosed location
- Sports activities: free gym, running sessions, boot-camp, football, climbing and more
- Fun, sociable company events in and out of the office
- Friday drinks
- Summer party
- 20% employee discount code to explore great museums/venues worldwide
- Pension contribution and travel compensation
- Everyone - employed at Tiqets will receive a monthly internet allowance for working from home
- Everyone - employed at Tiqets can reimburse home work space necessities
Company HQ
Jeruzalem, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Luuc Elzinga
(President)Previously a partner and Co-founder at Think Too. Previously worked as the company's CEO from 2014-2020.
Maarten Raaijmakers
(Chief Supply Officer)An experienced entrepreneur, they co-founded Splandingo and Mijn Register, as well as founding Minus3, before moving on to Tiqets.
Kasper Middelkoop
(Shareholder)Previously the founder of Hotelchamp and co-founder at Midsol Media, and subsequently founded Smiler.
Robert Westers
(COO)Previously the Director at Nimbuzz Internet Media. Went on to work as CPO at Nimbuss and Paylogic International.
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