Senior Backend Engineer, Katanox
Stock options plan available
Travel's growth engine
Job no longer available
Travel's growth engine
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
Stock options plan available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To simplify and integrate all aspects of hospitality business operations to eliminate obstacles by providing a cohesive and efficient engine to drive growth in the travel industry.
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 5 years of overall programming experience and 2 years of experience with a JVM language, preferably Kotlin or Java.
- You have experience with design, development, testing, and monitoring of software
- You are able to write well defined unit/integration tests
- You have high sense of quality code and community best practices
- You understand data structures, algorithms and software design
- Fluency in English
Desirable
- Knowledge of Spring Boot, either Gradle or Maven
- Knowledge of any database querying tool
- Experience of working with AWS
- Working on B2B marketplace products
What the job involves
- Architect new solutions and deliver maintainable and performant code
- Collaborate with your teammates to ship product features quickly and propose solutions to various challenges
- Collaborate with the Product and Engineering team in technical investigations
- Deploy code to production, monitor and solve any problems. In other words, own your code
- Mentor, share knowledge and best practices to enable growth of junior engineers
- Evolve current product and build new product modules, solutions and features
- We meet at times to collaborate on new features, big releases and brainstorms
- You will:
- Get the chance to re-pipe room distribution and payments in hospitality
- Help improve every stage of the travel transaction
- Build highly scalable systems
- Be part of and shape our culture as we grow
Our take
Distribution within the hospitality industry has become outdated and untrustworthy. Katanox is re-piping this issue, by enabling a direct solution between travel sellers and accommodation providers, in turn providing more choices for travellers.
By providing direct contracting, travel sellers and independent online agencies' commissions will be significantly increased, and accommodation providers can take full control of their distribution by defining the terms of trade while also lowering their distribution costs. This results in Katanox being seen as an attractive solution for these companies.
Recently, Katanox secured a license from the Dutch National Bank, enabling the company to offer regulated payment services across the European Economic Area, streamlining transactions and cutting costs for accommodation providers and buyers. AS the company continues to expand its payment offerings and build products, this development sets the stage for significant growth and new opportunities in the hospitality industry.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2022
$5.7m
EARLY VC
Feb 2021
$0.4m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $6.1m
Company benefits
- Flexible working time
- 25 days of holidays and flexibility in deciding when you want to use your bank holidays
- Office in Amsterdam, co-working spaces in WeWork London and New York
- Ownership in the company (Stock Options Plan)
- Option to work up to 8 weeks a year from anywhere
Company values
- Team over the individual, no ego: We prioritize the whole team's success and ensure that winning as a team is highly valued, which means that egos never come first.
- Data beats excitement: We love making data-backed decisions to move forward based on educated choices and strategic focus instead of acting purely based on excitement.
- Dare to do: We try new approaches and take risks as long as they are calculated. We make actionable, accountable, and autonomous decisions.
- See it, own it, and close it: When something's not working, we own it and ensure its resolution. When there's an opportunity or a problem, you should own it and see it through.
- We apply radical candor: Although we are direct, we are polite and communicate constructively and directly. We are straightforward without sugarcoating our message.
- In person first, call second: Face-to-face interactions tend to solve issues and move the needle quickly. If you can't be in the same physical space, hop on a call.
- Build collaboratively: Collectively, we’re stronger than our individual parts. We value collaborating in person to find unique solutions to complex problems.
- Iterate fast and pragmatically: We move quickly, but quality is not compromised. Speed is a differentiator only when matched with value-adding creation for our customers.
Company HQ
Leidseplein, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Leadership
Georgios Georgiadis
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Software Engineer for Yieldr and a Data Engineer for Hotelchamp.
Imre Vogelezang
(Co-Founder)Worked at Yieldr in various roles, including Director/VP of Product Management and also founded Travel Data Collective.
Mendel Senf
(Co-Founder)Founded Yieldr and co-founded Travel Data Collective.
Paul Beukers
(Co-Founder)Graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a Master in Business Administration before working for Integrand and later, Adyen.
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