Remote Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a remote software engineer position at Triptease, a tech company in the online travel industry based in Portugal. The role involves working in a small, autonomous team on distributed systems using TypeScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, Mongo, Google Cloud Run / Kubernetes, BigQuery, Pub/Sub.

Requirements

• You are collaborative, open-minded, and looking to continue to develop your craft
• Experience writing distributed, high availability, high throughput systems maintaining data consistency
• You are proud of the code you produce; it’s obvious, concise and rarely needs to be commented. You always like to leave the code better than you found it, and are experienced with refactoring techniques
• You see writing tests as an integral part of the development process and understand the benefit of writing code and tests in small increments
• Excellent skills in developing a solution all the way from client-side through to server-side
• You love shipping code and seeing how it performs in production and therefore are passionate about delivery pipelines, A/B testing, real-time analytics and monitoring tools like DataDog
• You are customer-centric and work well with product managers
• You have a solid understanding of HTTP and how the internet works
• Expert knowledge at using tests to drive the design of the application
• You have experience with building deployment pipelines and continuous delivery on cloud platforms (we use Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Terraform and Kubernetes)

Preferred Qualifications

• Bonus Points for:. You have an entrepreneurial streak, with some great examples of how you saw an opportunity and made it happen
• Working in cross-functional teams practising XP and Kanban techniques
• You have experience in multiple different programming languages and understand the value in bringing ideas from other ecosystems into your current environment

Benefits

• 25 Days holiday (rising to 26 on one year anniversary then 27 on your second anniversary)
• Pension - Salary Exchange Pension Scheme (min. 5% employee contribution + 4% employer contribution)
• Share options
• Working abroad for 4 weeks a year (within a -/+ 3 hours time zone of the UK)
• Enhanced maternity & paternity leave
• Ben benefits* (£50 per month health and wellbeing budget) You can use this for gym membership, private healthcare, massages, therapy, cinema etc
• Learning budget - £250 per calendar year *
• Life Event leave (marriage, divorce, moving house, child’s first day at school, ceremony or graduation)
• Make a Difference (volunteering) day
• Cycle to Work*
• Tech Scheme*
• Monthly remote and in-office socials
• Quarterly review socials
• Hybrid working environment
• Refer a Friend policy
• Flexibility with childcare
• Sabbaticals (from year three onwards)