Senior Go Engineer

FindHotel believes travel is the one thing that opens minds to new ideas, cultures, and ways of thinking. Our mission is to GET EVERY TRAVELLER THE BEST ACCOMMODATION DEAL, WORLDWIDE. From adventure travel and backpacking to honeymoons and family vacations, we genuinely care so that every traveller can make the best-informed accommodation choice at the absolute best conditions for every trip. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join FindHotel's Marketplace Tribe in delivering this mission by building the most scalable, reliable and flexible APIs in the industry

We are working with a modern stack consisting of Go, Redis, AWS (ElastiCache, ECS, S3, Batch), Snowflake, and more. We process thousands of requests per second and integrate with many suppliers and other partners. The products you will be working on are a core part of FindHotel's platform. Hence, anything that you will ship on production will have an immediate effect on our users.

We encourage people from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age and abilities to apply. If this job description resonates with you, we want to hear from you!

What you will do

• Work in a team to solve challenging problems, and build products to help bring to our travellers the best deals available in the market.
• Identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements regarding performance, reliability, and code quality.
• Write design documents and participate in architecture meetings with the team, having the goal of future-proof the team's applications.
• Knowledge sharing: Mentor and support less experienced engineers.
• Help to improve our infrastructure and scale it to support our growth in a cost-effective way.
• You will report to the Engineering Lead of the squad

Who you are

• You have at least 5 years of experience in backend development
• You have experience with at least two programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, or Ruby.
• You have experience with designing, developing, and shipping highly scalable software
• You have experience with caching and setting up data pipelines.
• You have experience with distributed systems
• You have experience with AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD tools.
• You write tests as part of your coding routine.
• You are familiar with Agile Methodologies.
• You treat documentation as a first-class citizen.

Why join us now?

• We aim to help 10M customers book on FindHotel annually by 2023, up from 3M in the past 12 months.
• We do that using data, transparency & industry-leading features.
• We grew the number of bookings by +100% Year-Over-Year both in 2018 and 2019, and even managed to thrive in Corona times by growing bookings by +40% in 2020. Now that the travel market is opening again we are rapidly accelerating our growth rate.
• From our early beginnings as an organization that excelled in user acquisition. In recent years we have grown into an engineering and product-driven organization. Our independence from major players in the industry, and the maturity that we have achieved in terms of user acquisition, engineering, and product enables us to be disruptive and build customer features that nobody else in the industry will.

What we offer:

• A great compensation package, perks, and benefits, including Stock Appreciation Rights.
• Learn and Development budget you can use for conferences, training, books, or any other relevant activity.
• A budget for your dream home office.
• Flexible working hours and flexible time off (take as many holidays as you need) and a chance to work remotely. We measure results, not time spent in the office.
• Plenty of chances to grow. You'll be surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the city, be part of a culture that promotes knowledge sharing, trust, and transparency.
• A profitable company with fast growth and a massive scale opportunity, with a great team core built from years of investment.
• You will be part of an international team that enjoys work, eat and play together in one of Amsterdam's best office locations.
• We value good food and offer catered lunches from different cuisines, great coffee, ice cream in the fridge, and the occasional BBQ in our garden.
• We celebrate every achievement, there will be plenty of company events in Amsterdam and abroad.
• Access to free mental health support via OpenUp.