Senior Backend Engineer/Java – Pricing & Premium

Berlin, DE

Job Description / Skills Required

Company Description

At Omio, we are quickly changing the way people travel and we are growing at a fast pace. We're operating at worldwide level and expanding in new geographies.

Driven by our team of over 300 people from more than 45 different countries, Omio is changing the way we travel worldwide. With Omio you can compare and book trains, buses and flights anywhere in Europe, the US, and Canada with one simple search, on mobile, app or desktop. By offering transparent pricing and easy booking, Omio makes travel planning simple, flexible and personal.

With over 800 travel partners across Europe, the US, and Canada Omio is one of Europe’s fastest growing travel tech companies with 27 million monthly users on average. Omio has raised close to $300 million from renowned investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Silver Lake Kraftwerk, Kinnevek and Temasek.

Job Description

We are looking for an enthusiastic software engineer focused on incremental architecture and TDD who has already built a few micro-services and knows what it takes to deploy and run them confidently in a production environment. So read on if you want to use your skills to help millions of customers make their travel dreams!

In the Pricing & Premium Team, you will help us evolve our cloud platforms by abstracting complexity around customer behaviours and building reliable pricing and premium features. We want customers to travel efficiently and with peace of mind. In addition, you will contribute to our internal risk-management system, improve our business rule engine capabilities, and experiment a lot. Our ambition is to disrupt the way our business profits with a customer-centric mindset.

Our tech stack overview: https://omio.tech/radar

What you will do:

  • Design, build and improve scalable systems that connect to many other services & data sources inside and outside of Omio
  • Work with your team to rapidly validate ideas, use results for iterations and improve our product.
  • Operate and maintain critical core systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability
  • Write code that is simple to understand, extend, and test.
  • Apply your engineering experience to automate processes and maintenance
  • Collaborate with other teams on solutions for challenging and exciting problems
  • Help all engineers grow in their journeys through empathetic feedback, Peer-reviews, and pair programming.
  • Be hands-on with our diverse technology stack and have an opportunity to participate in defining and developing internal standards and shared components.
  • Examples of the technologies we currently use, and you might be working with include (but are by no means limited to): Java, Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit, Couchbase, Docker, Kubernetes, Graphite, Grafana, Kibana, and GraphQL
  • Customer-focused: You have a passion for building performant and scalable products that cater to the needs of customers, internal and external
  • A team player: You help your teammates with planning and delivering high-quality software and are not afraid to talk to people in your team and outside to clarify information and make agreements. You learn from the best around you.
  • You love learning: You worked at least three years with production systems in a high volume/availability environment. You are constantly learning to design software systems and understand how architectures evolve. Practical experience with Java and a subset of the following is required: Spring, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, and a NoSQL database.
  • An Automator: You strive to remove repetition and snowflakes through scripting and automation tools. You understand and value a balanced test pyramid, always favoring automated tests and TDD. You have deployed, monitored, and supported applications in production environments.
  • Up to code: You have experience in software development; you write clean, effective code, all tested and version controlled. You pick the right tool for the job, and your mindset is not limited to a single paradigm or language. You know how to write tests and validate that your code does what it should.
  • Pragmatic: You can take on complex multi-domain problems, analyze, design, build modular solutions, and deliver end-to-end in an MVP, value-first and iterative approach. You know that sometimes you need to cut corners and can foresee and share its risks

What’s in it for you? #LifeAtOmio

This role is based on-site at Omio's modern & friendly head office in Warschauer Platz, giving you a great environment to learn, grow and develop your career, surround by like minded colleagues, this role also offers flexible working, 50% home/office. 

  • Have an impact. With innovation and smart technology, we are changing the way people travel, and you too can have an impact on this ride.
  • A competitive and attractive compensation package
  • A diverse team of more than 45 nationalities

Diversity makes us stronger

We value diversity and welcome all applicants regardless of ethnicity, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age or disability.

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