Back-End Engineer - WhereTo, Spain

Product and Technology; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 45.000 - 70.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Join a leading company in the travel industry as a Back End Engineer. You will create high-quality software, work with a talented team, and contribute to innovative travel solutions. The role offers a vibrant work culture, competitive benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Servicios

25 days off /year + 5 compensation days

Health insurance

Flexible working-time

Free language lessons

Free snacks and drinks

Social activities organized by ambassadors

Formación

• 6+ years of professional software development.
• 2+ years of experience with Node.js.
• Experience with high-quality software architecture from scratch.

Responsabilidades

• Creating high quality user-focused software.
• Partnering with product-leaders to shape the platform.
• Defining, implementing, and reinforcing best practices.

Conocimientos

Asynchronous I/O

Software architecture

Algorithms

Data Structures

Git fundamentals

Herramientas

AWS

Node.js

Linux

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

MongoDB

Descripción del empleo

WhereTo (now part of Flight Centre Travel Group) is looking for a passionate, motivated and skilled Back End Engineer to join our growing Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to be an integral part of the team leading the return to travel and work with some of the largest and most powerful travel programs in the world. We are looking for a self-motivated team player who is also willing to mentor others and contribute to our culture of engineering and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities...

• Creating high quality user-focused software while working in a cross-disciplinary fast-moving team.
• You will partner with product-leaders to shape the future of the platform.
• You will help define, implement, and reinforce architectural and implementation best practices.
• You will build pipelines that handle billions of transactions per day.

Experience & Qualifications...

• 6+ years of professional software development experience (internships and personal projects not included).
• 2+ years experience with Node.js.
• Experience with building and architecting high quality software from scratch.
• 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 (Bash scripting a plus).
• 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.
• 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.).
• Strong experience in designing and implementing highly horizontally-scalable architecture.
• Strong understanding of Git fundamentals.

Work Perks! What's in it for you?

FCTG is renowned internationally for having amazing perks and an even better culture. We understand that our people are our most valuable asset. It is the passion and dedication of our teams that keep the company on top of the industry ladder. It’s also why we offer some great employee benefits and perks outside of the norm.

• Our fantastic offices are located in the heart of Barcelona, at Plaça Catalunya.
• The opportunity to join our free language lessons (English, French, Spanish or Catalan).
• An attractive package : 25 days off / year + 5 compensation days + reduced time during summer + bank holidays. Health insurance. Flexible working-time.
• Table tennis on the terrace, a kitchen area with free snacks, fresh fruits and drinks.
• The opportunity to work with an international and talented team.
• Several activities organised by the ambassadors!

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