Staff Engineer - Search Clients (Python)
Brno
Engineering – Consumer Product (E) /
full-time /
Hybrid
About Kiwi.com
Kiwi.com is a leading global travel-tech company headquartered in the Czech Republic. Our innovative algorithm enables users to find better route options and prices other search engines can’t see, daily performing billions of price checks across 95% of global flight content. Are you bold, bright and curious? Join a global business that’s still got a start-up heart.
About the Search Client Team
You will join our Shopping Experience team and your specialist area of focus will be our booking pages, where customers fill in passenger details and select ancillary services. Booking is a critical domain within Kiwi.com and a critical touch point for all of our customers. Your work will directly impact the travel experience of 200k+ unique visitors and millions of EUR in revenue daily.
What you will do
- You'll play a crucial role in developing and enhancing our search product, one of our unique selling points and the cornerstone of our growth.
- You’ll help us maintain the architecture, improve performance and competitiveness of our search results, and prepare the ecosystem for the future growth.
- You will work on designing sophisticated and problem-solving solutions.
- You will be a part of an impactful team whose responsibility is taking care of the search flow, from the search engine to users.
- Participation in cross-platform and cross-team collaboration and discoveries.
- Code reviews, keeping the codebase in good shape and taking care of tech debt will be your daily bread.
- As an experienced engineer you will have plenty of opportunities to mentor more junior colleagues and share your knowledge, and enrich our community with your expertise.
What you will need
- You have a robust understanding of backend technologies, with a focus on Python (Go knowledge is a plus!). Our tech stack is enriched with tools like aiohttp, extensive use of asyncio features, celery, k8s & docker, gRPC and REST for service communication, and GraphQL for engaging our front-end clients.
- You are skilled in working with relational databases (our choice is PostgreSQL), Redis, and BigQuery.
- Your familiarity with cloud technologies will be highly valued. We utilize Google Cloud services, including Google-hosted k8s clusters, pubsub, etc.
- You are knowledgeable in designing, maintaining, and scaling the architecture of large backend applications/microservices ensuring high availability, minimal latency, and continuous uptime.
- Your experience with Datadog and Grafana, which are essential for our monitoring and logging processes.
- You bring excellent communication skills and fluency in English, for clear explanation and documentation of technical details.
We offer you
- Annual financial bonus based on company and individual performance.
- We give our employees the freedom to choose between the environment of work from home and our modern office located in ZET Nová Zbrojovka with an in-house gym, masseur, sleeping spots, canteen, showers, chillout zones, free refreshments, Rebelbeans coffee, garage for cars/motorbikes/bicycles.
- We enjoy benefits, such as meal vouchers, 25 days of paid vacation, Cafeteria, sick days, VIP Medical Care, Multisport card, Makro Cash & Carry Card, Employee Assistance Program, and career development framework.
- Relocation package (including visa transfer support).
- We're rewarding Kiwis with flight vouchers to celebrate their Kiwi anniversaries.
- Grow.Kiwi program which supports parents and keeps them engaged with the company.
- Dogs are welcome in our offices.
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Interested? Join us and help us make travel more accessible to all.
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