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WhereTo is a business travel startup from San Francisco that evolved into an agile development and design studio within the Flight Centre family. We build travel solutions used by some of the largest companies on the planet - we have just one goal: making business travel better for everybody. WhereTo provides an AI-powered travel platform for corporate travel. Our platform uses machine learning algorithms to recommend personalized travel options based on a traveler's preferences, company policies, and budget. Our technology also allows for real-time travel tracking, reporting, and cost analysis, enabling companies to optimize their travel programs and reduce costs. We are looking for a Back End focused engineer to be a pivotal member of our engineering team. You will be working closely with product managers and developers who like to use lots of interesting technologies to develop core features used across the WhereTo platform. A great fit for this role is someone who is always intrigued by new technology, is constantly finding better ways to write beautiful, shareable, scalable and solid code, is comfortable working in a fast paced remote environment, and is a team player.
Job Responsibility:
Responsible for creating high quality user-focused software while working in a fast-moving domain team
Help define, implement and reinforce architectural + implementation best practices
Assist Team Lead in facilitating technical planning for team’s projects
Assist Team Lead in communicating progress, roadblocks, concerns, and successes to engineering management
May be required to organize and lead meetings with external stakeholders as needed
Provide technical guidance to more junior engineers
Assist Team Lead in code review for your team
Help your team members debug issues and solve complex tasks
Provide mentorship to junior engineers
Assist in onboarding process for your team
You will live and breathe asynchronous I/O, Typed JavaScript and horizontal scalability
Help cultivate a safe, inclusive, and accessible work environment for team members of all backgrounds including people who are racialized, have disabilities (invisible or visible), require faith accommodations, and/or are LGBTQ2+
Do your part to encourage an inclusive and accessible work environment for all Flighties, regardless of age, gender, disability, ethnicity, faith, and LGBTQ+ identity
Participate in maintaining an inclusive and accessible work environment for all Flighties, regardless of their identities and lived experiences
Help to foster an inclusive and accessible team environment for all Flighties, regardless of their identities and cultural backgrounds
Requirements:
More than 8 years experience in a software development role
Experience with building and architecting high quality software from scratch
Strong Node.js and JavaScript skills (ES6, Babel)
Strong understanding of asynchronous I/O
Excellent software architecture skills and a passion for maintainable, organized code
Experienced with AWS, EC3, S3, RDS, CloudFront/CDNs
Expert with Linux, Ubuntu/Debian
Experience with CI platforms (Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis, etc)
Experience with REST-based Web Service API implementation
Experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL (or similar) and understanding of how they work internally
Experience with Algorithms and Data Structures
Strong experience in designing and implementing highly horizontally-scalable architecture
Nice to have:
Experience with TypeScript and/or FlowType is a bonus
BASH scripting a plus
Experience with NoSQL databases is desirable (i.e MongoDB, Cassandra)
Experience with memory cache systems (Redis, Memcached)
Experience with other systems programming languages is a bonus (Go, C/C++, Rust, etc), and/or scripting languages (Python) and/or JVM-based languages (Scala, Java, Groovy)
Experience with pure functional programming and/or functional programming libraries and concepts is a bonus (Haskell, Scala, F#, Ramda, Lo-Dash FP etc)
What we offer:
Tick destinations off your bucket list with our discounts on travel and accommodation
Enjoy 25 Days Off per year plus 5 Compensation days
Learn a new language with our free language learning platform (Global Exam)
Employee Retention Share Scheme through Equate Plus
Various social events to promote networking, the celebration of wins, and sometimes just for fun! (Global Gathering 2024 - Portugal)
Enjoy our discounts with GymApp
Complementary coffee, drinks, snacks and fruits at our Barcelona office location
A strong focus on professional development to support you in the evolution of your career