Backend Engineer

Back End Focused EngineerWhereTo 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 traveller's 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.Role SummaryWe 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.What You'll DoResponsible for creating high quality user-focused software while working in a fast-moving domain team.Help define, implement and reinforce architectural + implementation best practicesAssist Team Lead in facilitating technical planning for team's 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 engineersAssist 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+Help to foster an inclusive and accessible team environment for all Flighties, regardless of their identities and cultural backgroundsWhat We're Looking ForMore than 6+ years experience in a software development roleExperience with building and architecting high quality software from scratchStrong Node.js and JavaScript skills (ES6, Babel) - experience with TypeScript and/or FlowType is a bonusStrong understanding of asynchronous I/OExcellent software architecture skills and a passion for maintainable, organized codeExperienced with AWS, EC3, S3, RDS, CloudFront/CDNsExpert with Linux, Ubuntu/Debian (BASH scripting a plus)Experience with CI platforms (Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis, etc)Experience with REST-based Web Service API implementationExperience with MySQL/PostgreSQL (or similar) and understanding of how they work internallyExperience with Algorithms and Data StructuresExperience 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 architectureWhat You'll EnjoyTick 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.