Backend Developer (Python)

Are you an enthusiastic tech person with a great passion for the sea and ready for new challenges? Are you interested in supporting our continued growth strategy? Do you want to become an expert in the e-commerce travel industry worldwide? Then join us!

Our company 

Sailogy Group is the leading boat charter agency in Europe. Our goal is providing customers with a reliable, fast and complete booking solution for chartered recreational sailboats. Through the experienced job of its professional Sail Hunters, Sailogy finds and evaluates harbor facilities and ship owners, ranking charter companies for quality, reliability, and comfort. Sailogy's platform provides immediate access to more than 20,000 yachts of different types in 2,000 handpicked destinations. 

Duties

- Designing, writing and testing well-structured, maintainable and idiomatic clean code

- Develop RESTful API services from current Django monolith

- Design and deliver fast, scalable and secure micro-services in continuous integration

- Collaborate with colleagues to deliver fully-integrated features

- Proposing effective solutions to improve R&D company stack

Requirements 

- Passion for coding, web technologies, and thrilled by challenges

- Strong understanding of server-side technologies such as: Python, Django, Flask, Celery, and databases like: PostgreSQL, MongoDB

- Confident with modern web patterns: SOA, RESTful APIs, WebSocket

- Conversant with version control systems: mostly Git

- Familiar with Docker and environment encapsulation

- Good knowledge of English, both spoken and written

Bonus points

- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud concepts

- Familiar with AsyncIO library

- Skilled in algorithms and data structures is a big plus

- Experience with modern Javascript frameworks like React and Vue.js

Location

The role is based in Chiasso (CH)

Relocation support available, if needed

Salary

Annual salary is 40-50k CHF, based on experience

Benefits

- Tickets for tech conferences

- Budget for books/magazines/online courses

- Flexible working hours

- Powerful workstation (last-gen laptop, 2 monitors, etc)

- 4 weeks paid vacation per year

- 1 half-day free every week

- An hangover-recovery-day per month 

- Extra-holiday for each day spent on a rented boat vacation (up to 10 days)

- Sponsored boat-license classes

Hiring process

- Qualified candidates will have a short welcome interview 

- Based on experience, candidates have to solve a coding exercise 

- Once the assignment is done, a technical interview with the code-review will be scheduled

- Finally, good fit candidates will receive a proposal and will have the final interview with the CEO