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Staff Backend Engineer Supply Tech

Created on 24-02-2020
Location Berlin

Description

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you’ll define and lead complex projects across teams, create leverage, and proactively improve how the group and engineering works. As part of our technical leadership, you’ll be involved in overarching strategic topics while focusing on the operational excellence of our software engineers - ensuring technical consistency and clarity, across the tech teams you work with.   


Teams’ Mission in Supply Tech: 


Supplier: Platform - Enabling customers to book incredible experiences error-free and teams to build incredible cross-platform customer experiences through a stable and scalable platform


Supplier: Connectivity - Empower scalable inventory growth and create a seamless customer experience for connected products


Supplier: Tools - Enable suppliers with the right tools to sell more great experiences for our customers


Marketplace owns the mobile and web platforms of GetYourGuide. We aim to deliver an amazing customer journey through great user interfaces and rigorous A/B testing to build an unbeatable e-commerce site and seamless booking experience for our users. 


We’re organized in cross-functional mission teams and one key challenge is shifting from a monolith architecture to a service-oriented architecture, allowing your role to make decisions on how we move forward.


Responsibilities: 


  • Be a (hands-on) system architect. You understand how the various systems and components connect and interact, where the risks are and what trade-offs entail 
  • Be an Impact multiplier. Whether through processes you design, best practices you establish, code you write, learnings you share, organization changes you influence, or initiatives you lead. 
  • Be a hands-on coder
  • Be part of the technical leadership team
  • Be an escalation point for incidents and shape operational excellence

 


Requirements:


  • Expertise in setting up distributed systems and moving a product from a monolith to services
  • Experience on how to operate at scale and have a cloud DevOps / infrastructure mindset (Kubernetes)
  • Experience in monitoring complex systems (Metrics, Logging Tracing) 
  • Years of professional hands-on experience as a senior/lead engineer, or architect in complex development projects - with a minimum experience of 7 years in software engineering
  • Experience in defining and implementing technical roadmaps 
  • Experience in keeping senior stakeholders and the wider tech organization aligned
  • Polyglot mindset in which you can move comfortably between PHP to Java to Node.JS and work across the entire backend and frontend stack.
  • Experience about building marketplaces is a plus

 


We Offer:


  • A modern infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Istio, Kafka) and a good DevOps mentality (you build it you own it)
  • Solid engineering principles. Check them out here
  • To work on creating memorable travel experiences for millions of travelers. Find out more about our KPIs here
  • Smart and engaged co-workers - Take a look at our team video
  • Work on a product that helps create memorable travel experiences
  • Smart, engaged co-workers
  • Speak English in the office with people from over 70 nationalities
  • Virtual stock options - be part of our success story
  • Quarterly Hackathons and weekly tech talks
  • GetYourGuide gift cards
  • Relocation Assistance (varies by role/level)

 


It is our commitment that every qualified person will be evaluated according to skills regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion. Please refrain from including your picture and age with the application.


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