Senior Backend Engineer, Room Price Genie

• Solid professional software engineering experience, with deep backend expertise
• Experience in a high-growth or scaling company is a strong plus. You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity, driving clarity and helping teams adapt as the organization evolves
• Advanced proficiency in Python, Django
• Strong grasp of software design principles, testing and scalable architecture
• Practical experience with CI/CD, AWS and modern monitoring / observability tools
• Familiarity with React and data workflows, you’re comfortable reading or extending frontend components and data pipelines when needed, collaborating when needed with specialists from that field
• A product-minded engineer who understands trade-offs, user needs, and impact-driven development
• High ownership mentality, you see projects through from idea to measurable results
• Excellent communication skills, fluency in English, and a collaborative mindset
• Based in the European time zone (UTC+0 / UTC+2)

Desirable

• As a Senior Backend Engineer in our Customer Journey team at RoomPriceGenie, you’ll build the systems that power user activation, engagement and long-term success
• You’ll focus primarily on backend development using Python/Django, owning features end-to-end, from design and implementation to testing and deployment. But your impact will extend beyond the backend: you’ll collaborate closely across the stack, occasionally working in our React frontend and data pipelines to keep the team moving fast
• You’ll operate with high autonomy, combining technical excellence with product awareness, and you’ll play a key role in helping us evolve a scalable, data-informed, growth-driven product
• Design, build and maintain robust backend services and APIs using Python/Django
• Take end-to-end ownership of projects, from problem discovery to deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code, applying modern testing practices across unit, integration and functional layers
• Collaborate across disciplines (Product, Data, Design, and Frontend) to deliver full, measurable outcomes
• Occasionally contribute to the React frontend or data pipelines (Snowflake, Airflow, dbt) to unblock progress on critical projects or improve feedback loops
• Ensure data quality, observability and performance in systems that feed our analytics and growth experiments
• Participate in architecture reviews, technical discussions and mentoring, helping elevate our engineering standards
• Drive continuous improvement in how we design, test, deploy and monitor our applications