Senior Backend Engineer

What you will do:

We are looking for a Backend Engineer who is passionate about clean, readable and scalable code. You will be responsible for building high-performance APIs that transform terabytes of data into valuable insights that help over 100.000 hotels worldwide make well-informed decisions. 
Your team works in close collaboration with our product team and a highly talented group of software engineers, DevOps engineers and project managers to drive initiatives forward. 
In a fast-growing scale-up priorities might shift from time to time. You’ll gain experience and ownership in different domains depending on your ambition, but here are some general topics:

Where you will have impact:

• Work on new feature developments for our existing products as well as creating new products from scratch.
• Architect, code and maintain existing & new Python/Go (micro-)services.
• Deploy and monitor services in a reproducible and scalable way.
• Develop a high affinity with our various, often complex, datasets by crunching large amounts of data on the fly in API implementations and data processing jobs.
• Experiment with, think about and take ownership of a piece of our codebase/infrastructure and find ways to improve it, both in terms of performance/efficiency and structure/best practices.
• Ensure high quality deliverables through extensive testing as part of your development process.
• Be part of the product scrum-teams, creating high performing and efficient APIs related to new feature developments.

About our team:

The team scales and manages services around the largest set of hotel’s metadata within the hospitality industry. They’ll design, implement and integrate the landscape required to support our business critical processes and flows. You’ll architect core abstractions (e.g. data and business modelling), backend components and a service landscape that enables other engineering teams to do their best work possible. Your future stakeholders are other engineers and power users on the business side.

You’ll be part of a highly skilled engineering team with hubs in Ghent and Madrid. We want to give you the best tools, equipment and atmosphere to work from wherever you want.

Who you are:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field
• 5+ years of professional experience in a similar position
• Experience writing Python and/or Go
• Experience with microservice architectures and any cloud platform (we work with GCP)
• A passion for efficiency and performance optimizations, preferably in the field of data processing and algorithm design
• Affinity with challenging status-quo of overall API design and architecture
• Proven experience dealing with large datasets in a NoSQL environment
• Fluent in English

Technologies you’ll work with:

Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Istio, Python, Django, Go, Bigtable, FoundationDB, Spanner
(feel free to ask us why these are the best fit for us)

What's in it for you:

• Flexible working environment: Work from home or at one of our global offices.
• Flexible time off: Autonomy to manage your work-life balance.
• Cobee benefits: 160€/month for food, transportation, or nursery.
• Language learning: 40€/month on Preply.
• Comprehensive health insurance: 100% Alan coverage for you, your spouse, and dependents.
• Collaborative team: High-bar, friendly, creative, and passionate colleagues.
• Career development: Workshops, frameworks, tools, training, and processes to realize your full potential.
• Impactful work: Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide.
• Competitive compensation: Proactively maintained to value your work.
• Referral bonuses: Earn rewards for bringing in new talent.

We welcome:

• Fluency in SQL
• Knowledge of the Django framework
• Experience in working in a cross-functional team to develop and deliver new product features