Senior Backend Engineer, HolidayPirates
€64-80k
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International travel company
Open for applications
International travel company
101-200 employees
Open for applications
€64-80k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make it easy to find the best travel deals.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of backend development experience, with at least 2 years working in Clojure
- Good understanding of functional programming principles and best practices
- Expertise in working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and non-relational databases (e.g., Redis)
- Experience in building and maintaining event streaming services
- Familarity with automated testing frameworks and performance monitoring tools
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- Experience with the AWS ecosystem and Terraform is a plus
- Excellent ability to communicate technical ideas clearly and concisely and proficiency in English
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Developer, you’ll be a key part of our backend team, designing, building, and maintaining the core applications of our platform
- You’ll collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to develop scalable, high-quality solutions using Clojure and other modern technologies
- This is your chance to take ownership of critical backend systems and help shape the future of our platform
- Architect, design, and implement backend services in Clojure
- Build scalable APIs and services to support high-throughput, low-latency applications
- Monitor and optimize system performance and reliability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver solutions that meet business objectives
- Maintain and improve our existing codebase, ensuring high standards for quality and maintainability
- Lead technical discussions, propose new tools and technologies, and guide best practices
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 the company's continued prominence in the market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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)Currently Co-Founder of Travel Pirates Corp, was the VP of Special Projects and Products at Holiday Pirates.
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