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Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems, Ruby)

WeTravel

WeTravel

Software Engineering
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Posted on Jan 23, 2025

Like the idea of a hybrid work model?

Excited to work within an International team?

Want to be part of 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 trip participants (travellers) get to really immerse themselves. Passionate travel organizers make this magic happen and WeTravel is here to support those travel companies. We help them publish their trip offerings, generate leads and follow through to convert them to bookings, process payments around the world, pay suppliers/vendors, and digitize their operations. This helps multi-day 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.

We celebrate our diversity.
Department
Engineering
Employment Type
Fixed Term Contract
Location
Amsterdam
Workplace type
Hybrid
Reporting To
Gabriel Lescinkas

Role Summary

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!

Preferred Experience

  • Experience managing large projects and system design.
  • Demonstrable object-oriented software design and development experience for distributed infrastructure systems; using one or more of the server-side programming languages, preferably Ruby not necessarily.
  • 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

  • Impactful Work: Contribute to a rapidly scaling company that’s revolutionizing the travel industry.
  • Global Team: Collaborate with talented colleagues from around the world.
  • Innovative Environment: Work in a startup atmosphere where your ideas and contributions matter.
  • Professional Growth: Opportunities for career development and mentorship.
  • Work-Life Balance: We value flexibility and offer a hybrid work environment (3 days in the office per week)
  • Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary and benefits package.

How to apply

If you're passionate about software, excited about travel tech, and eager to make an impact, we’d love to hear from you! Please submit your resume and answer a few questions.

To help us get to know you better, we’ve included a few questions designed to uncover your experiences.

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.