Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems, Ruby)
WeTravel
Software Engineering
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Posted on Oct 1, 2024
Like the idea of a Hybrid work model?
Excited to work in an International team?
Want to work in a rapidly scaling company?
YOUR JOURNEY STARTS HERE...
ABOUT WETRAVEL
Travel gives people new experiences and brings them together, sometimes in life-changing ways. That’s especially the case for group travel and multi-day travel where the participants get to really immerse themselves. Passionate travel organizers make this magic happen and WeTravel is here to support those travel organizers. We help them publish their trip offerings, take bookings, process payments, pay suppliers/vendors, and digitize their operations. This helps travel organizers get more bookings, save time, and save money.
OUR VALUES
This position presents the opportunity to work in a business-critical role in a rapidly growing company. You will also uphold our four core values:
- Be the solution - take ownership, 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 and would invite you to apply. A diverse workforce is a highly productive one, so why not take a chance, send us your application even if you don't meet all our requirements, we may surprise you!
“Culture add” is so much better than "culture fit" and welcome applications from all groups, irrespective of your, age, disability, gender reassignment, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, veteran status and sexual orientation.
OUR WORK ETHIC
At WeTravel, we are building a High Performance Culture where we reward top performers, expect a work environment at WeTravel that is fast-paced, demanding and deeply committed to putting our customers first. Our global footprint spans 30 countries, requiring your flexibility, agility, and dedication to our team.
Our high-performing team members are prepared to give their best by embracing the early mornings, late nights, and intensive project work. This commitment to excellence and to tackling challenges head-on is what positions us at the front of our industry.
Joining WeTravel means stepping into a dynamic, demanding environment where your contribution makes a real difference. It’s a place for those ready to dive into their work, push beyond comfort zones, and achieve collective goals through hard work and perseverance.
Here, ambition isn’t just welcomed; it’s essential for those fully committed to our mission of leading the market in the fintech SaaS space.
OUR WORK ETHIC
At WeTravel, we are building a High Performance Culture where we reward top performers, expect a work environment at WeTravel that is fast-paced, demanding and deeply committed to putting our customers first. Our global footprint spans 30 countries, requiring your flexibility, agility, and dedication to our team.
Our high-performing team members are prepared to give their best by embracing the early mornings, late nights, and intensive project work. This commitment to excellence and to tackling challenges head-on is what positions us at the front of our industry.
Joining WeTravel means stepping into a dynamic, demanding environment where your contribution makes a real difference. It’s a place for those ready to dive into their work, push beyond comfort zones, and achieve collective goals through hard work and perseverance.
Here, ambition isn’t just welcomed; it’s essential for those fully committed to our mission of leading the market in the fintech SaaS space.
- Department
- Engineering
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Amsterdam
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
Role and Responsibilities
As a senior backend engineer you will be a part of a cross-functional and an agile team of 5-7 people, where you will;
- Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle
- Work with cutting-edge technologies/libraries on a microservice based architecture
- Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
- Write clean and quality code, build prototypes, solve issues, profile and manage bottlenecks
- Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing
If you are interested to learn more about our tech stack, check out our stackshare.io profile!
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
- Experience managing large projects and system design.
- Demonstrable experience in object-oriented software design and development for distributed infrastructure systems, using one or more server-side programming languages, with Ruby being one of them.
- Demonstrable experience with relational (e.g MySQL, PostgreSQL) and non-relational (e.g MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases
- Experience with message brokers(e.g RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS)
- Deep knowledge on Computer Science fundamentals, algorithms and data structures
- Experienced in defining solutions and designing containerized applications (Kubernetes) on Cloud (e.g AWS, GCP) and on micro-services architecture
We will be really excited if you also have:
- A strong interest in pursuing a future leadership role as a tech lead.
Benefits
- Attractive compensation
- Unlimited Paid Time Off!
- 2 week cross-functional onboarding training program for all new colleagues.
- Annual team off site.
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Tuesday team lunches & after work social events.
- Amazing new offices in the heart of Amsterdam - rooftop garden, right next to the Metro stop in ROKIN
- Hybrid working model - 3 days in the office and Work From Home for the remainder
- As a travel-related company, we have fantastic team retreats, two of our founders love surfing, so it's normally beside a great beach - it was Colombia for 2022
- The latest tech you need to be successful.
About WeTravel
Founded in 2016, WeTravel provides a complete booking and payments platform for multi-day and group travel companies of all sizes. We give your clients an easy booking experience while also helping you manage financials, payments to partners or your bank, registration information, and client communication all in one place.
Headquartered in San Francisco, with our secondary hub in Amsterdam, our team is driven to continuously improve our technology; ensuring that our clients always have the best possible solutions at their fingertips.
Headquartered in San Francisco, with our secondary hub in Amsterdam, our team is driven to continuously improve our technology; ensuring that our clients always have the best possible solutions at their fingertips.