Sr. Software Engineer - Backend

🎯 Atlys' mission is to enable every person on earth to travel freely.

At Atlys, we believe that the path to creating a more open world is by making it efficient to travel. Travelers cite visas as the most frustrating pain point, and we're starting by automating that completely. We're looking for talented people who are interested in building the future of travel alongside us.

Building technology to increase global movement liquidity will be one of the most exciting developments in decades. If you are curious why the smartest people want to work at Atlys, read this post.

We’re looking for engineers with grit and vision who want to build a modern platform to make travelling efficient and delightful. This role is critical in achieving our goals - expanding coverage to support more destinations worldwide, automating entire processes and reducing support volume to offer a truly self-serve experience. We talk to customers daily, ship code several times a day, and measure every little interaction!

The Job

• Build cutting-edge infrastructure to expand our coverage to over 50 destinations, enabling 10x growth.

• Automate the entire visa workflow, from the smallest of manual tasks to help us keep SLA to under 60 seconds.

• Build tools & systems to reduce support volume to less than 3%.

The ideal candidate

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer at a SaaS or technology company, with a strong understanding of modern web application development.

• Experience with Python is a must. NodeJS is also preferred

• Experience with designing, building, and maintaining APIs, be it RESTful, GraphQL, or other interfaces.

• Knowledge of working with various data storage solutions, like relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra), and caching systems (Redis, Memcached).

• Thorough understanding of backend infrastructural elements, like microservices architecture, message queues and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and a disciplined approach to version control, preferably with Git.

• Ability to work collaboratively within engineering and across functional teams

• Passion for delivering high-quality and powerful products while championing technical excellence

• Strong problem-solving skills and a dedication to crafting clean, reliable, and highly maintainable code

• Experience with test-driven development and pair programming

• A mindset that embraces tradeoffs in technologies and programming languages, with a willingness to learn new technologies as needed