Backend Engineer

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WhereTo is a business travel startup from San Francisco that evolved into an agile development and design studio within the Flight Centre family. We build travel solutions used by some of the largest companies on the planet - we have just one goal: making business travel better for everybody.

WhereTo provides an AI-powered travel platform for corporate travel. Our platform uses machine learning algorithms to recommend personalized travel options based on a travelers preferences company policies and budget. Our technology also allows for real-time travel tracking reporting and cost analysis enabling companies to optimize their travel programs and reduce costs.

About The Opportunity...

We are looking for a Back End focused engineer to be a pivotal member of our engineering team. You will be working closely with product managers and developers who like to use lots of interesting technologies to develop core features used across the WhereTo platform. A great fit for this role is someone who is always intrigued by new technology is constantly finding better ways to write beautiful shareable scalable and solid code is comfortable working in a fast paced remote environment and is a team player.

Key Responsibilities...

• Responsible for creating high quality user-focused software while working in a fast-moving domain team.
• Help define implement and reinforce architectural implementation best practices
• Assist Team Lead in facilitating technical planning for teams projects.
• Assist Team Lead in communicating progress roadblocks concerns and
• successes to engineering management.
• May be required to organize and lead meetings with external stakeholders as needed.
• Provide technical guidance to more junior engineers
• Assist Team Lead in code review for your team.
• Help your team members debug issues and solve complex tasks.
• Provide mentorship to junior engineers.
• Assist in onboarding process for your team.
• You will live and breathe asynchronous I/O Typed JavaScript and horizontal scalability.
• Help cultivate a safe inclusive and accessible work environment for team members of all backgrounds including people who are racialized have disabilities (invisible or visible) require faith accommodations and/or are LGBTQ2
• Do your part to encourage an inclusive and accessible work environment for all Flighties regardless of age gender disability ethnicity faith and LGBTQ identity
• Participate in maintaining an inclusive and accessible work environment for all Flighties regardless of their identities and lived experiences
• Help to foster an inclusive and accessible team environment for all Flighties regardless of their identities and cultural backgrounds

Experience & Qualifications...

• More than 8 years experience in a software development role
• Experience with building and architecting high quality software from scratch
• Strong and JavaScript skills (ES6 Babel) - experience with TypeScript and/or FlowType is a bonus
• 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

Your benefits...

• Tick destinations off your bucket list with our discounts on travel and accommodation.
• Enjoy 25 Days Off per year plus 5 Compensation days!
• Learn a new language with our free language learning platform (Global Exam).
• Employee Retention Share Scheme through Equate Plus.
• Various social events to promote networking the celebration of wins and sometimes just for fun! (Global Gathering 2024 - Portugal).
• Enjoy our discounts with GymApp.
• Complementary coffee drinks snacks and fruits at our Barcelona office location.
• A strong focus on professional development to support you in the evolution of your career.

Who we are...

As part of Flight Centre Travel Group our is toopen up the world for those who want to see.

We encourage you toDREAM BIGthrough collaboration and innovation and make sure you are supported to make incredible ideas a reality. Together we deliver quality innovative solutions that delight our customers and achieve our strategic priorities.

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