Senior Python Backend Engineer (EU based ) Offline

Our client is a commercial platform for the hospitality industry (our clients are AirBnb property owners, individual hotels and major chains like Hilton, Accor, etc.). These are exciting times with the client now: they have recently raised another round of funding ($80 million) and they have welcomed two new companies, Transparent and Kriya, to our organisation that will expand their product portfolio!

About the position:

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:

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.

Technologies you’ll work with:

Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Istio, Python, Django, GoLang, Bigtable, FoundationDB, Spanner

(feel free to ask us why these are the best fit for us)

We are looking for:

Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field

4+ 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

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

Our Benefits:

Flexible working hours and type of contracts

Paid holidays

Super medical package/sports or cinema card

Training opportunities

Working in international environment