(Senior) Backend Engineer – TS/Node.js

Berlin, DE

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Company Description

At Omio, we are Making Travel Easy through Technology! This is a great chance for you to join one of Europe’s fastest growing travel companies, backed by over 30 million monthly users and the world’s leading tech investors.

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Search Platform team. You'll be solving very relatable user problems and help build a truly outstanding product experience for travellers from all over the world while they're searching, comparing and booking their best journey.

You will help build a new Search engine with the ultimate goal to make the key Omio search functionality faster and more performant.

What you will do:

  • Create robust scalable solutions using state-of-the-art technologies
  • Work with your team to rapidly test ideas on users, use results for iterations and improve our product
  • Test new languages, libraries and frameworks and evaluate their potential to make sure we never stop innovating. You will share best practices with other teams and help make those a company standard.
  • Apply your engineering experience to automate processes and help to guide the team during the decision making

Our tech stack:

  • Java, TS/Node.js, Rest API/GraphQL, Couchbase, Jest, Cypress, Docker, Kubernetes, GCloud, GitHub, Jenkins
  • Check more details: https://omio.tech/radar

You are:

  • Customer focused: You have a passion for building intuitive and scalable products that enhance our analytical capabilities and drill down to what works best for our customers

  • Experienced and educated: You have a degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience and worked multiple years (3+ years) with production systems of high availability and high traffic

  • Up to code: You have experience in software development, you write clean, lean, effective code in multiple languages, all version controlled. You pick the right tool for the job and are not limited to a single paradigm or language

  • Pragmatic: You and your team take on complex multi-domain problems, analyse, design, build modular solutions, and deliver end-to-end in an MVP, value-first and iterative approach

  • An automator: You remove repetition and snowflakes through scripting and automation tools. You have deployed, monitored, and supported applications across stacks and technologies

  • You think big: A small, innocent application can always grow. You have ideas on how to distribute a system so that it can work at scale

  • A team player: You guide and help your teammates with planning and delivering high quality software and also take on communication across teams

Omio encourages you to apply even if you’re still developing some of these skills! 

What’s in it for you? #LifeAtOmio

  • Have an impact. With innovation and smart technology, together, we are powering journeys that move us.
  • Remote and flexible working, 27 vacation days, a day off on your birthday, and more
  • 6 weeks per year 'work-from-anywhere' after 1 year of tenure
  • Subsidized Urban Sports Club membership.
  • Travel Benefits Scheme
  • Brand new, modern, and dog-friendly office
  • A diverse team of more than 50 nationalities.

Diversity makes us stronger

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

Hiring process and background checks

At Omio, we work in partnership with Giant Screening, once a job offer has been accepted, Giant will be engaged to carry out background screening. Giant will reach out to you via email and occasionally via telephone/text message so that they can gather all relevant information required. Consent will be requested prior to any information being passed to our services company.