Senior Backend Engineer

February 16

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Pitchup.com

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Pitchup.com is the market-leading online booking site for campsites, glamping sites and caravan parks, with over 5,500 sites available to book in 67 countries throughout Europe, the Americas, Australia and Africa.

camping • caravans • marketing • online travel • internet

51 - 200 employees

📋 Description

• Pitchup.com is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help us modernise and build on our approach to back-end development. • We use Python extensively, with Django forming the bulk of our backend. • We’re beginning to explore an event-driven architecture to maximise our ability to deliver changes quickly, responding to feedback from our users and trying out new ideas with a fast feedback loop. • You’ll be responsible for adding features to our current customer and campsite-focussed sites using Python. • Work with team members and our Product Owner to scope and implement backend features in our existing codebase. • Suggest and implement changes to the back-end architecture of our sites as we decompose our monolith. • Play an important role in the improvement of our development practices.

🎯 Requirements

• Able to demonstrate at least 5 - 7 years of experience as a Backend developer, ideally within a scaling business. • Demonstrable proficiency in Python and a strong understanding of software architecture, microservices and ideally event-driven architecture • An appreciation of the challenges regarding building adaptive and responsive websites • You are able to solve problems in a structured way • You are able to communicate technical concepts in a lucid, structured fashion to colleagues • Team player, self-motivated, able to plan and prioritise effectively • Experience of working as part of an Agile development team • Have relevant knowledge of the OTA sector (it would be great if you…) • Have experience of continuous delivery and/or feature flags • Have an understanding of SOLID principles • Are up-to-speed with modern backend development and have an appreciation for the pros and cons of ideas like event sourcing, branch-by-abstraction or BDD • Have experience of working with both internal and third-party APIs • Have a degree in a related discipline

🏖️ Benefits

• £500 to spend annually on learning & development at Udemy and whatever software you need • Choice of technology • Work-from-home office equipment allowance • 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays (pro-rated for part-time employees) • Pension matched to 4%, private healthcare, life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection - for peace of mind • Discounts including: gym memberships, sports equipment, Caffe Nero, Odeon cinema and various hotel and retail outlets • Great staff discounts on Pitchup bookings across thousands of properties in 70 countries • Employee assistance helpline, in case you ever need someone to talk to, with access to get-fit programmes, nutrition advice, financial and legal advice and counselling • Enhanced paternity and maternity leave • Cycle to work scheme