Remote Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Lighthouse (formerly OTA Insight) as a Backend Engineer and contribute to revolutionizing the hospitality sector with your passion for clean, readable, and scalable code. You will be responsible for building high-performance APIs that transform terabytes of data into valuable insights for over 100,000 hotels worldwide.

Requirements

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field
• 5+ 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Flexible working environment: Work from home or at one of our global offices
• Flexible time off: Autonomy to manage your work-life balance
• Cobee benefits: 160€/month for food, transportation, or nursery
• Language learning: 40€/month on Preply
• Comprehensive health insurance: 100% Alan coverage for you, your spouse, and dependents
• Collaborative team: High-bar, friendly, creative, and passionate colleagues
• Career development: Workshops, frameworks, tools, training, and processes to realize your full potential
• Impactful work: Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide
• Competitive compensation: Proactively maintained to value your work
• Referral bonuses: Earn rewards for bringing in new talent