Strong Middle Golang Engineer

Client's vision is to enable seamless travel for people anywhere, in any way. We are bringing all global transport options into a single distribution system to create magical end-to-end consumer journeys.

Our client is the largest source of inventory, working with over 1000 suppliers across 39 countries. Our portfolio also includes Rome2Rio for global discovery, while powers ticketing and journeys, attracting over 900 million users annually.

With our client, you can easily compare and book trains, buses, ferries, and flights across Europe, the US, and Canada using a single search on your mobile, app, or desktop. The client aims to simplify travel planning by providing transparent pricing and easy booking, making it a flexible and personalised experience.

Client's offices are located in Berlin, Prague, Melbourne, Brazil, Bangalore, and London. We are a growing team of over 400 passionate employees from more than 50 countries who all share the same vision: to create a unified tool to help travellers reach almost any destination in the world.

Requirements:

• Experience in Go, or willingess to learn, designing and building scalable high-performing applications
• Experience in software design and Continuous Delivery
• Experience in cloud infrastructure and container technology
• Passion for software craftsmanship and agile development methodologies
• Team-player mindset with passion for mentoring and growing colleagues
• An open mind and eagerness to learn new things

Responsibilities:

• You will be joining one of client key Partnerships tribe where we develop products and offer content to partners such as Uber outside of our B2C product, i.e. through tailor-made Search and Booking APIs, Discovery API and other sub-products.
• You will help us build a cloud platform that abstracts away the complexity and fragmentation of the data and APIs of the world of personal transportation and turns it into a structured, performant and reliable system for our client customer's application teams to use. We work with all major train, bus and ferry operators in Europe (and beyond) and strive to create a travel product that none of them can build in isolation.

What you will do:

• Take care of existing services and create new ones
• Design, build and improve scalable systems that connect to many services & data sources inside and outside of client
• Work with your team to rapidly test ideas, use results for iterations and improve our product
• Operate and maintain critical core systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability
• Collaborate with other teams on solutions for challenging and interesting problems
• Help more junior engineers grow in their progression

Tech stack: Go, Couchbase, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, RestAPI, Message Queue

Why this position:

• Our team inspires progress in each other and in our customers through our relentless pursuit of excellence; you will work with leaders who promote learning and personal development.