Backend Software Engineer, Caravelo
2-3 days a week in office
Customer retention software for the airline and travel industry
Job no longer available
Customer retention software for the airline and travel industry
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
2-3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring the subscription economy to the travel world.
Role
Who you are
- +3 years experience developing Java applications or similar backend technology
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- You are familiar with build automation tools like Maven or Gradle
- You are familiar with DI/ioC frameworks like HK2 or Spring
- You are familiar with unit testing tools like Junit or Spock
- You are familiar with at least another OOP language
- You have a good understanding of the entire product development process (design, development, testing and deployment)
- You can estimate and break down user stories into tasks
- You have worked actively in a CVS (Git, GitLab, Bitbucket, ) and feel familiar opening and reviewing MRs/PRs, you feel confident branching, rebasing and merging
- You can troubleshoot problems in Java code and feel confident in using debugging tools in your IDE
- You're aware of the importance of using a coherent code style and to make code readable
- You're analytical and good at time management
- You have great problem-solving skills and you work well in a team
- You're curious about new technologies and you're excited to find ways to implement them in your work
- You have a big appetite to learn and improve your back-end skills
Desirable
- Solid knowledge of another backend technology
- Basic Knowledge of front-end technologies like HTML, JavaScript and CSS, and any front end framework (VueJs, ReactJs)
- Strong knowledge of relational or non-relational databases like MySQL, MariaDB, SQL, CouchBase, DynamoDB, MongoDB
- Some knowledge of AWS Cloud, ECS, EC2 and S3
- You're familiar with automated garbage collection vs manual memory management, resource handling (e.g. close file pointers, HTTP resources), strong/weak reference collections and object immutability
- You're familiar with asynchronous callbacks, multi-threaded environments (thread safety), parallel computing and hard/soft locking
- You can build basic observability of the code you have built (REST latencies, uptime, and main metrics) with Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch or similar
What the job involves
- As a Back-End Engineer L2 at Caravelo, you will be responsible for the server side code and APIs of our platform
- You will be involved in the entire product development lifecycle including the design, development, deployment and maintenance of new and existing features
- You'll write reusable, scalable and maintainable code
- As a Backend Engineer, you will perform testing to optimize performance and work closely with our Delivery and Design/UX teams to ensure system consistency, customer satisfaction and to create a great user experience
- Ultimately, you'll be the driving force behind all back-end activities
- This role reports to the Engineering Manager
- Analyze business requirements and translate them into technical user stories or tasks
- Document technical solutions, create documentation, readme guides and UML diagrams whenever needed, sharing them with other teams or departments
- Know and enforce the testing pyramid, writing unit tests and integration tests
- Consume, design, build and evolve both our public and internal API
- Good estimation of technical debt, detecting current debt and alerting the team when we are generating more. Actively propose improvements to reduce technical debt
- Continuous refactor of code from oneself and others, with the aim of simplifying, modularizing, improving performance and having stable code
- Create great technical documentation and share with peers
- Attend team ceremonies willing to help others and address bottlenecks
- Perform peer reviews from other team members in an efficient manner, willing to share best practices in a respectful way
- Communicate clearly with other team members and report status to managers
- Take and give feedback to other team members positively, having the opportunity to keep improving and learning from others in a challenging and cheerful team
Our take
Caravelo is a travel tech company bringing commercial innovation to the traditionally slow-to-change airline and travel industry. By building smart software solutions, Caravelo is helping airlines unlock new revenue streams and improve margins in a sector where profits are typically razor-thin.
One of its standout offerings is a subscription model that provides airlines with predictable, recurring income and stronger customer retention. These high-impact tools have proven their value, helping Caravelo steadily win over new clients in an industry usually resistant to change.
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Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2023
$4.1m
SERIES A
Jul 2022
$3.5m
SEED
Total funding: $11.2m
Company benefits
- Progression framework
- Fun environment & company events
- Tax-free benefits: Transport, food, gym and childcare
- Flexible hours & Remote work options
- Spacious office in the heart of Barcelona with free coffee & beer
Company HQ
Dreta de l'Eixample, Barcelona, Spain
Leadership
Iñaki Uriz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Started their career in finance, first at UBS and then at Societe Generale as a Portfolio Manager. Also worked in Private Equity prior to founding their first startup in the travel industry, ChangeYourFlight from which caravelo was spun out.
Jose Luis Vilar
(Co-Founder & CTO)Trained as an Engineer and Consultant. Spent years advising on strategic innovation projects in Dubai as well as automotive companies like Renault in Europe.
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