Backend Engineer, HolidayPirates
€54-65k
International travel company
Be an early applicant
International travel company
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
€54-65k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make it easy to find the best travel deals.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 2-3 years of working experience as a Backend Engineer
- Experience in Clojure or interest in learning it
- Using AI for solving problems and using agentic coding is a must
- Understanding of functional programming principles and best practices
- Experience with relational databases and key-value stores
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment
What the job involves
- As a Backend Engineer, you'll be a key part of our backend team, designing, building, and maintaining core applications on our platform
- We operate at the intersection of agility and stability—moving fast while staying pragmatic. You'll collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to build scalable, high-quality solutions using Clojure and other modern technologies—with real room to bring your own ideas, not just execute someone else's
- From day one, you’ll be part of the decision-making process, enjoying real ownership and accountability
- Design, and implement backend services in Clojure with the team
- Build scalable APIs and services to support high-throughput, low-latency applications
- Contribute to improving system performance and reliability (with guidance from senior team members)
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver well-designed solutions
- Maintain and improve existing codebase with a focus on quality and long-term maintainability
- Participate in technical discussions and help shape best practices
- Communicate proactively with your manager and team on progress, blockers, and trade-offs
Application process
- HR Interview – A friendly chat to get to know each other
- Technical Deep Dive – Dive into your skills and experience
- Prove Your Craft – A hands-on challenge to show your magic
- Meet the Crew – Connect with future teammates to check the cultural fit
- The Offer – If all goes well, we’ll raise the sails and send you the invite to join our crew!
Our take
On average, Brits spend 18 nights a year overseas, so it's no surprise that the travel industry is in as high demand as ever. Since its inception in 2011, HolidayPirates has established itself throughout Europe and the United States.
Due to its unparalleled social media audience, boasting 11+ million Facebook fans and 2+ million Instagram followers, HolidayPirates values itself for providing the "best value-for-money travel deals", which rapidly gained the company popularity and a faithful online following.
The company claims to only spend 7% of its marketing budget on traffic, showing how effective its social media strategy has been in generating an organic following. With services delivered in 7 languages and more than 9 million app downloads, the company is also seeing an acceleration of payment transactions, which indicates its continued prominence in the market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours and fully remote working
- A MacBook (also for private use) as well as any other needed equipment including a very lovely remote IT support
- £100 equipment budget every month on top of our salary to comfortably work from home
- £45 tax free cash card per month
- Maternity leave for up to 52 weeks
- Legendary team and company events like summer parties, Christmas parties and more
- Mental health and relaxation sessions
- Further training budget to use as you choose
- Inspiring mates from all over the world
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Igor Simonow
(Co-Founder)Previously a 2018 cohort member of Entrepreneur First.
Sebastian Kaatz
(Co-Founder & VP of Special Projects and Products)Currently Co-Founder of Travel Pirates Corp, was the VP of Special Projects and Products at Holiday Pirates.
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