Senior Backend Engineer

Join Our Team as a Senior Backend Engineer

About the Role

WeTravel is seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join our dynamic engineering team. This is a remote position based in France, offering you the flexibility to work from anywhere within the country. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a critical role in developing and maintaining our backend systems, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and efficient.

Key Responsibilities

• Application Lifecycle Management: Participate in the overall application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Microservices Architecture: Work with cutting-edge technologies and libraries on a microservice-based architecture.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code. Build prototypes, solve issues, and manage bottlenecks.
• Testing: Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing.

Preferred Experience

• Project Management: Experience managing large projects and system design.
• Software Design: Demonstrable object-oriented software design and development experience for distributed infrastructure systems.
• Programming Languages: Proficiency in one or more server-side programming languages, preferably Ruby.
• Database Management: Experience with both relational (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and non-relational (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases.
• Message Brokers: Experience with message brokers such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, or SQS.
• Computer Science Fundamentals: Deep knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Cloud and Containerization: Experience in defining solutions and designing containerized applications (Kubernetes) on Cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP).

What We Offer

• Competitive Salary: Attractive compensation package.
• Flexible Time Off: Unlimited Paid Time Off to ensure work-life balance.
• Travel Opportunities: A'Dam Program for you to visit us in Amsterdam for 2-4 weeks every year.
• Team Retreats: Participate in fantastic #wegather events (team/department retreats).
• Latest Technology: Access to the latest tech you need to be successful.

Our Values

At WeTravel, we uphold four core values:

• Be the Solution: Take ownership and drive collaboration.
• Be Resourceful: Strive for new wins every day.
• Be Honest: Default to transparency.
• Be Respectful: Treat others like you want to be treated.

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups to apply. We believe that a diverse workforce is a highly productive one.

Apply Now

If you are a passionate backend engineer looking to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing company, we would love to hear from you. Apply today and join us on our journey to revolutionize the travel industry.

Note: This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities.