Fullstack Software Engineer, FareHarbor
Europe
Booking solutions for tour operators
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Booking solutions for tour operators
501-1000 employees
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501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make experiences better for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 3 years of software development experience using server side programming languages like Python, frameworks like Django and web technologies like JavaScript/Angular/Vue/HTML/CSS
- Have a good understanding of software design patterns and principles, including SOLID
- Good understanding of system architecture, high-availability systems, and service-based architecture
- Familiarity with database technologies (e.g., SQL, NoSQL) and data storage solutions
- Experience with working on large-scale production codebases
- Understanding of Agile principles or similar methodologies
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to prioritize and organise work to ensure quality standards with minimal supervision
- Ability to effectively manage against timelines, deadlines, and goals
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to adapt to change
What the job involves
- FareHarbor, a Booking Holding Company, is looking for a full time, on-site full-stack engineer to join our product team in Amsterdam
- We’re a quickly growing company with a robust product that tens of thousands of people use to run their businesses every day
- Design and implement complex features in our large scale, highly dynamic web application with a strong focus on reliability, performance, security, and scalability
- Write code that is clean, secure, well tested and documented and follows industry best practices
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to understand user needs and translate them into technical solutions
- Work across the stack to develop scalable, performant, well-tested solutions
- Coach and challenge engineers in adopting proper quality standards, both in coding and way of working
- Participate in code reviews
- Write automated tests to ensure that our applications are reliable and scalable
- Thinking outside the box; you're willing to consider different solutions and methods for reaching your desired outcome
Our take
Most holidaygoers in the US prefer to book their activities and experiences online - but when it comes to local operators, this isn’t always possible. FareHarbor has been developing software to help digitize the booking process for these smaller businesses, and over a decade, has brought more than 5,000 of them onto the books.
Along the way, FareHarbor also built up some strong momentum in the reservation management and distribution areas of the sector, which drove up the company’s valuation - making it a prime candidate for acquisition. Whilst TripAdvisor reportedly made multiple bids, FareHarbor ultimately went to Booking Holdings, the US’ largest vendor of tour company booking software.
This puts FareHarbor in a strong position. Booking Holdings is acquiring companies at a steep rate (ten in the last ten years), and good ones too - Kayak and Venga number among them. This will help FareHarbor with customer acquisition, and insulate it somewhat from any wobbles in the hospitality sector.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2015
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $0.2m
Company HQ
Grachtengordel-Zuid, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Matt Broten
(Software Engineer)Worked in various Software Engineering roles at Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Open Systems International, Instant Automatic, and Artery- which they also co-founded.
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