Backend Engineer III - WhereTo, Spain

Flight Centre Travel Group; Cartagena; Presencial; EUR 40.000 - 65.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Join WhereTo as a Back End Engineer and play a crucial role in enhancing an AI-powered platform that transforms corporate travel. Collaborate in a dynamic team, develop high-quality software, and mentor others while enjoying a competitive benefits package, including 25 vacation days and access to central office perks.

Servicios

Access to central office with rooftop terrace

Free language lessons

25 vacation days

5 additional compensation days

Reduced summer hours

Formación

• 6+ years of software development experience required.
• 2+ years experience with Node.js.
• Strong architecture skills with asynchronous I/O knowledge.

Responsabilidades

• Create user-focused software in a fast-moving team.
• Partner with product leaders for platform development.
• Implement architectural best practices for software.

Conocimientos

Software development

Problem solving

Asynchronous I/O

Software architecture

Git fundamentals

Herramientas

Node.js

AWS

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Linux

Descripción del empleo

WhereTo began as a San Francisco-based business travel startup and has since evolved into an agile development and design studio within the Flight Centre Travel Group family. Our mission is simple: to make business travel better for everyone.

We provide an AI-powered platform that transforms corporate travel. Using machine learning, it tailors personalized travel recommendations based on traveler preferences, company policies, and budgets. Our technology also offers real-time travel tracking, reporting, and cost analysis, helping companies optimize their travel programs and reduce expenses.

To learn more about WhereTo, click HERE

About The Opportunity...

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 seeking 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.
• Partnering with product leaders to shape the future of the platform.
• Helping define, implement, and reinforce architectural and implementation best practices.
• Building pipelines that handle billions of transactions per day.

Experience & Qualifications...

• 6+ years of professional software development experience (excluding internships and personal projects).
• 2+ years experience with Node.js.
• Experience in 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.
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront / CDNs.
• Expertise 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 their internal workings.
• Knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB or Cassandra is desirable.
• Experience with memory cache systems such as Redis or Memcached.
• Experience with other systems programming languages (Go, C/C++, Rust), scripting languages (Python), or JVM-based languages (Scala, Java, Groovy) is a bonus.
• Experience with functional programming concepts and libraries is a bonus.
• Strong experience designing highly horizontally-scalable architectures.
• Good understanding of Git fundamentals.

What You Can Look Forward To at WhereTo:

• If based in Barcelona, access to our central office at Plaça Catalunya, featuring a rooftop terrace, table tennis, and a fully stocked kitchen.
• Free language lessons in English, French, Spanish, or Catalan.
• A competitive package including:

25 vacation days, 5 additional compensation days, reduced summer hours, and bank holidays.

• Opportunity to work with a talented, international team.
• Fun activities and events organized by our team ambassadors!

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