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 Search Backend
At Kiwi.com, our Search Backend team powers the connection between travelers and ideal flights through advanced algorithms and travel data, featuring our Virtual Interlining product and travel hacks. We solve complex travel data challenges and transform business needs into technical solutions. Using diverse technologies, we build high-performance systems that shape the search experience for millions of users. We collaborate across the company while maintaining strong ownership and a passion for scalable solutions.
What You Will Do
- Your primary focus will be collaborating within a small team to deliver impactful features according to our product roadmap.
- Embracing rigorous code reviews will be essential to your role. You'll give and receive feedback while maintaining clean coding practices and implementing comprehensive testing strategies.
- System reliability will be at the core of your responsibilities. You'll collaborate on minimizing technical debt and apply your expertise to identify and resolve outages.
- Working in an Agile environment, you'll champion methodologies like Scrum/Kanban, ensuring your team maintains transparency while you actively participate in all ceremonies to maximize value delivery.
- As you progress in your role, you'll immerse yourself in our tech stack, using your work on new features and improvements to expand your skill set, helping you grow.
What You Will Need
- Bringing your solid Golang proficiency to the team is essential, demonstrating your ability to develop production-level applications while staying current with the latest technologies.
- Your experience with scalable systems will be crucial in applying your understanding of performance improvement techniques, including concurrency, caching, and microservice architecture.
- Your collaborative work style shines as you engage with fellow Engineers, and your openness to giving and receiving feedback contributes to a positive team dynamic.
- Your understanding of software engineering best practices is key as you apply your knowledge of testing, version control (Git), and CI/CD pipelines in your daily work.
- Problem-solving comes naturally to you as you analyze complex technical issues, implement effective solutions, and communicate these to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Your strong sense of ownership drives you to take the initiative and move projects forward, ensuring the delivery of high-quality results through your commitment to accountability.
- The bigger picture guides your thoughtful technical decisions as you align with product strategy and demonstrate your ability to deliver business value while expanding your knowledge in the aviation travel domain.
- You are fluent in English and have strong communication and collaboration skills.
We offer you
- We offer a hybrid and flexible work environment. A lovely, modern office in the center of Barcelona (Passeig de Gracia) with great views and amenities.
- We also enjoy benefits, such as flexible working hours, 30 paid vacation days, sick days, private medical insurance, Employee Assistance Program, GymForLess membership, the annual subscription for El Bicing.
- Annual financial bonus based on company and individual performance.
- Flight vouchers to celebrate your kiwi anniversaries.
- Relocation package (including visa transfer support).
- Dogs are welcome in our offices.
Interested? Join us and help us make travel more accessible to all.
Kiwi.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, uniformed services, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
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