Remote Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Cars/Agency

Description:

• The Senior Software Engineer, Backend will join the Cars Agency team and be responsible for designing, implementing, deploying, and operating complex backend systems for Car Rentals distribution channels.
• The role involves working on feature development, infrastructure, and collaborating with a diverse group of people.
• Responsibilities include building and maintaining a robust infrastructure supporting millions of bookings, solving technical and software architecture problems, and contributing to a microservice architecture system.
• The ideal candidate should have experience with microservices architecture, API integrations, API design, data-heavy platforms, gRPC/Protobuf, functional programming, Cloud Platforms (preferably GCP), Kubernetes, distributed systems, and backend engineering at scale.
• Other requirements include a focus on quality, cross-functional teamwork, and experience in the travel industry.

Requirements:

• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and ability to develop Scala microservices (Scala is a plus but not strictly required, some experience with the JVM is strongly preferred)
• Experience building and managing multiple external API integrations
• Experience and strong ability to design APIs
• Professional experience developing data-heavy platforms or APIs
• Experience working with gRPC/Protobuf is strongly preferred
• Functional programming experience strongly preferred (Java, Scala, Haskell, F#, etc…)
• Solid understanding of Cloud Platforms (GCP knowledge is a plus)
• Kubernetes knowledge and experience are strongly preferred
• A strong understanding of distributed systems and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability (concurrency, non-blocking IO, performance tuning)
• Thrived in backend engineering positions and delivered user experience at scale
• A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs and scales
• Excelled in cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers and other highly skilled specialists
• Experience working in the travel industry would be a plus

Benefits:

• Competitive salary at a well-funded startup with large ambitions
• 100% coverage of employee premiums for private Major & Minor Medical insurances
• Social Security coverage supplemented with Private insurance from Day 1
• Tax-advantageous and secured savings vehicle with employee contribution matching
• Generous parental leave policy
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexdesk Access Pass and Work-from-home stipend
• Carrot Cash travel stipend
• Monthly subsidy for teleworking utilities
• Entrepreneurial culture with open communication and small, dynamic teams for massive impact