Our Native Product Engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining features in our Flagship iOS and Android apps that delight millions of travelers around the world. This team is looking for a backend engineer with experience designing, building, and maintaining microservices, preferably at scale. The ideal candidate would bring excellent communication skills, technical acumen, and a product-mindset.

What you’ll do:

▪ Deliver high-quality, scalable features to millions of travelers across many countries and languages.

▪ Collaborate with designers, product managers, and other engineers to iterate on new features.

▪ Practice, uphold, and promote high quality and reliability standards, respect clean code principles, implement unit and integration tests.

▪  Develop services that drive our iOS and Android apps across our business lines (hotels, experiences, restaurants, etc.)

▪  Take responsibility for the quality and operational stability of your code.

▪  Provide feedback on technical designs and ensure the scalability, maintainability, and robustness of our services.

What we’re looking for:

▪  At least 3 years of professional software development experience.

▪  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

▪  Strong Computer Science fundamentals.

▪  Experience developing microservices that are scalable, performant, fault tolerant, reliable, and secure.

▪  Java experience or familiarity with a JVM-based language and the ability to ramp up on Java quickly.

▪  Understanding of API design best practices (GraphQL, REST, Swagger, etc.)

▪  Passion for building scalable software and improving the user experience.

▪  Product mindset.

▪  Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

▪  KnowledgeofcontainerservicessuchasDockerorKubernetes.

▪  Familiarity with public cloud providers, such as AWS or GCP.

▪  Asenseofownership,urgency,andprideinyourwork.

Nice to haves:

▪ Domain experience supporting iOS and/or Android apps.

▪ Experience with server driven UIs.

▪ Working knowledge of AWS.