Junior Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

Berlin

Intro

Do you love traveling and are you ready for new challenges in an ambitious, fast-growing and committed company? Then you've come to the right place!

Start your career with us as:

Junior Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

Your responsibilities

Travelcircus is seeking a Junior Backend Engineer (m/f/x) to join the development team. We're looking for someone who's passionate about building robust & scalable technology platforms, systems and APIs. You'll be an integral part of the engineering team and will work closely with others throughout our company to deliver the best possible product to our customers. Ideal candidates will have experience with PHP, API development and Service-Oriented Architectures.

Things you will work on

Building and extending our Platform Services and Booking Systems
Designing, developing, and maintaining a robust transactional API platform, that will be used internally and directly by 3rd parties
Participating in code reviews and pair programming
Improving our existing platform codebase which is used by tens of thousands of users on a daily basis
Addressing bugs and performance issues

What we offer

FLEXIBLE WORKING HOURS thanks to part-time and flexitime models as well as remote work
ATTRACTIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT in a stylish loft office with start-up flair, cooking together, fun & cohesion in a varied working environment and regular team events
TRANSPARENT COMMUNICATION thanks to flat hierarchies, fixed feedback cycles and weekly company and team meetings
OPTIMAL CAREER OPPORTUNITIES thanks to a comprehensive onboarding program and individual induction, continuous on-the-job training, optimal promotion and further development opportunities
ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION & DISCOUNT on the BVG company ticket (local public transport) and discounts with over 800 other providers
PERSONAL TRAVEL BUDGET of €1080 per year to spend freely on our entire product portfolio
WORK LIFE BALANCE with 28 vacation days, increasing per year of service, with up to 35 days of vacation entitlement as well as company health management and a pension plan

Your profile

Experience building web applications and distributed web services
Knowledge of PHP / OOP, relational databases and data modelling
Good understanding of SQL and the ability to write and debug queries
Experience with Linux/macOS command line
Experience using message queues and Elasticsearch is a plus
Strong visual, verbal and written communication skills, fluency in english, german is a plus
Experience working in Agile environments