**About the position:**
We are looking for a **Backend Engineer **who is passionate about clean,
readable and scalable code. You will be responsible for building high-
performance APIs that transform terabytes of data into valuable insights that
help over 100.000 hotels worldwide make well-informed decisions.
Your team works in close collaboration with our product team and a highly
talented group of software engineers, DevOps engineers and project managers to
drive initiatives forward.
In a fast-growing scale-up priorities might shift from time to time. You’ll
gain experience and ownership in different domains depending on your ambition,
but here are some general topics:
* Work on new feature developments for our existing products as well as creating new products from scratch.
* Architect, code and maintain existing & new Python/Go (micro-)services.
* Deploy and monitor services in a reproducible and scalable way.
* Develop a high affinity with our various, often complex, datasets by crunching large amounts of data on the fly in API implementations and data processing jobs.
* Experiment with, think about and take ownership of a piece of our codebase/infrastructure and find ways to improve it, both in terms of performance/efficiency and structure/best practices.
* Ensure high quality deliverables through extensive testing as part of your development process.
* Be part of the product scrum-teams, creating high performing and efficient APIs related to new feature developments.
**Technologies you’ll work with:**
Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Istio, Python, Django, GoLang, Bigtable,
FoundationDB, Spanner
(feel free to ask us why these are the best fit for us)
#### **Benefits of working at OTA Insight**
* The opportunity to shape the products that more than 75.000 users rely on world-wide
* The chance to grow and evolve the data culture at a fast-growing scale-up
* A flexible working environment where you can work from home or at one of our offices
* Two annual Detox Days, on top of your personal holidays, when we take some time away from our computers with the entire company
* A choose-your-own transportation budget should you choose to come to the office
* A highly competitive compensation package
### Job requirements
**We are looking for:**
* Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field
* 2+ years of professional experience in a similar position
* Experience writing Python and/or Go
* Experience with microservice architectures and any cloud platform (we work with GCP)
* A passion for efficiency and performance optimizations, preferably in the field of data processing and algorithm design
* Affinity with challenging status-quo of overall API design and architecture
* Proven experience dealing with large datasets in a NoSQL environment
* Fluent in English
**We welcome:**
* Fluency in SQL
* Knowledge of the Django framework
* Experience in working in a cross-functional team to develop and deliver new product features
