Backend Engineer

What will you do?

OTA Insight is a fast-growing scale-up where priorities might shift from time to time. You’ll likely get experience on a few different projects, but here are some general topics:

• Architect, code and maintain our config management and API backends
• Develop APIs able to crunch large amounts of data on the fly
• Deploy and monitor applications in a reproducible and scalable way
• Clean, analyse and combine internal and external data-sets
• Experiment, think and take ownership of a piece of our tech stack/infrastructure and find ways to improve it
• Provide support to your team members and other teams in the company. We have a very open and flat structure and have a very short feedback loop on both internal and customer questions
• Enjoy our journey as a fast-paced company that’s growing every year. There’s always a reason to celebrate!

Technologies you'll work with:

• Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Python, GoLang, JS
• Even though we love the above technologies (and many more), we always try to find the best technology for the job! We aren’t tied to a specific toolkit.

Who you are

• You are a 5* engineer, a high achiever and technically skilled in both architecture and in implementation. You have gained knowledge through education or experience in software architecture, scalable system, web development, scripting and programming languages. You are not afraid to get your hands dirty.
• You are passionate about technology. What unites us is our passion to build great products that delight our users. We want you to take on big technical challenges that substantially improve our products and our user’s workflows!
• You are creative, entrepreneurial and open for innovation. We strongly believe that everything can be improved. We expect you to think and learn about new technologies, and take initiative to try and suggest new things. We want to be on the edge of technology to be able to offer our customers the best products and we want you to take the lead!
• You understand that perfect is the enemy of the good. We develop solutions that present complex data in a simple way. We develop highly scalable APIs and data pipelines but don’t over-engineer them. Therefore you are a critical thinker.
• You are able to work in a team as well as handle work individually. You’ll quickly learn that we have a very open culture and that everyone can be reached out to for help, ideas, feedback and much more. Aside the great teamwork, you’ll notice that everyone takes responsibility to execute small and large projects on their own given the necessary business context - we trust you can also take care of yourself!
• You have great communication skills, both to technical and non-technical parties. With offices and customers all over the world, being able to word issues in an approachable way is increasingly important.