Staff Engineer - Booking Backend
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 Booking Backend Team
Our Shopping Experience team develops the Booking page where customers input passenger details, select add-ons, and finalize their purchases. Booking is a vital domain that connects with all of our customers. Our work has a meaningful influence on the travel experience of over 200k+ unique visitors daily.
What you will do
- You will help to deliver new features from our roadmap, like integrating new partnerships with carriers, implementing additional services, or setting standards for data ownership.
- You'll play a crucial role in enhancing our booking flow experience. You’ll help us maintain the architecture, improve performance, and prepare it for future growth.
- You will write stable, maintainable, and well-tested code.
- Code reviews and keeping the codebase in good shape will be your daily bread.
- You’ll apply your ability to analyze multiple options and your knowledge to solve problems while looking for the balance between speed and quality.
- You will participate in cross-platform discoveries and deliveries (we always closely cooperate with frontend and other backend teams), write technical proposals, and implement our customer-facing features.
- Sharing your knowledge will be part of your journey; you'll be helping more junior colleagues to grow, and enrich our community with your expertise.
What you will need
- As a Python expert, your familiarity with our tech stack will be essential, which includes Flask, Connexion, OpenAPI, Celery, SQLAlchemy, Datadog, K8s, and Docker. You'll also have valuable experience with relational databases, primarily PostgreSQL, as well as Redis and BigQuery. We highly value your dedicated approach to ownership and responsibility for the data you handle.
- Your general understanding of microservices and OOP design patterns, along with your knowledge of REST principles, will empower you to build and maintain robust, scalable, and expansible back-end architectures. These architectures should communicate effectively and meet the needs of front-end clients seamlessly.
- Your proven record in debugging issues indicates your keen attention to detail. This will be crucial in identifying and resolving challenges promptly, given the significant impact that errors can have.
- We appreciate your exceptional communication skills. You are adept at discussing technical details with colleagues and can also simplify complex information for a wider audience, including other teams, stakeholders, and product managers.
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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