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Location: Remote or Amsterdam, NL(Visa sponsorship available)

Will you join us on a journey to disrupt the trillion-dollar travel industry? We are looking for the best and brightest who share our passion for travellers, data, and product.

FindHotel believes travel is the one thing that really opens minds to new ideas, cultures, and ways of thinking. Our mission is to get every traveller in the world the best accommodation deal. From adventure travel and backpacking to honeymoons and family vacations, we deeply care so that every traveller can make the best-informed accommodation choice at the absolute best conditions for every trip.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Back-End Engineer to help build the most scalable and flexible APIs in the industry. You will be joining FindHotel’s Marketplace Platform Tribe. You will be working with other squads across tribes and closely interact and actively collaborate with the Software Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Scientist, and PO in the team.

We are working with a modern stack consisting of Go, Redis, AWS (ElastiCache, ECS, S3, Batch), Snowflake, and more. We process thousands of requests per second and integrate with many suppliers and other partners. The products developed by the Offers team are a core part of FindHotel’s platform allowing us to offer the best possible comparison and offers to every traveller, worldwide. Hence, anything that you will develop and ship on production will have an immediate effect on our users and on our business performance. We work in a flexible, results-oriented and customer-centric team structure, focussed on shipping value in a collaborative fashion, with hopefully just the right amount of bureaucracy.

What you will actually be doing / responsibilities

Work in a team to solve challenging problems, and design and develop products that will help to bring to our travellers the best deals available in the market. Identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements in terms of performance, reliability, and code quality. Integrate and improve (new) provider integrations. Help to maintain and improve our infrastructure and scale it to support our continuous growth in a cost-effective way.

What a day in the office might look like

In the morning, you and your fellow engineers have a refinement session with the PO to discuss the upcoming features on the roadmap. You carefully consider the impact of the new feature on the entire product and raise questions and make suggestions of what is the most pragmatic approach to balance the technical excellence with the time to market. You are part of a discussion that builds on top of each other suggestions, ideas and comments. Today you have chosen to come to the office and after lunch you play table tennis or pool or go for a walk with colleagues in the city centre. In the afternoon, you enter a deep work period and finish working on improving a core component in the rates and availability API. Once down with that work you jump on a zoom call with the rest of the team to discuss the challenges and next steps with the PoC the team is building in this sprint. Throughout the day you monitor the product operations using DataDog.

Who we are looking for / requirements

• You hold a BSc or MSc in Computer Science or related field
• You have a proven track record of designing, developing and shipping highly scalable software
• You have a proven track record working in a fast-paced agile environment
• You have strong experience with at least two programming languages such as GoLang, C#, Java
• Experience with GoLang is a plus
• You have experience with caching and setting up data pipelines.
• Experience working with data analysts and data scientist on analyzing data and identifying improvements is a plus
• You have experience with distributed systems
• You have experience with AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD tools.
• You have a sense of pragmatism, constantly finding the right balance between achieving technical excellence and delivering value to the end-users.
• You are flexible, curious, and independent, with a strong sense of ownership
• You treat documentation as a first-class citizen.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• You have a can-do and can-learn attitude

Why join now?

• This year we will be helping +2M customers around the world find better hotel deals, using data, transparency & industry-leading features
• We are in fast growth mode and have been growing bookings by +100% YOY for the past 2 years and still growing in 2020 despite the pandemic
• Completing our mission means building an efficient tool users love. Doing that in a market as large and as competitive as online accommodation is a rare opportunity to make an impact in the online world.

Is FindHotel is the right place for you? Find out by reading our CEO’s blog post

What we offer:

• Plenty of chances to learn and grow – you’ll be surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the city, be part of a culture which values sharing knowledge every day and has a budget to attend conferences and develop yourself.
• A profitable company with fast growth and a great scale opportunity.
• A competitive compensation package + perks and benefits (including Stock Appreciation Rights).
• Flexible time off (take as many holidays as you need) and a chance to work remotely - we measure results, not time spent in the office.
• You will be part of a highly international team in a fun work environment.
• We value good food and offer catered lunches from various cuisines, great coffee, ice-cream in the fridge and the occasional bbq in our garden

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Job Description

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands (relocation & visa) or remote (European time zones).

WHO WE ARE

After the 2008 financial crash, the international financial and business environment is more regulated than ever. The amount of required paperwork has increased exponentially. The deals are being blocked, the accounts are being frozen, the business is often getting paralyzed.

Project Plato was born in 2015 as an autonomous R&D unit working for Dolfin, an established British investment company, with the aim of automating sensitive business operations. We are a young and ambitious team frustrated by inefficiency of existing solutions.

5 years later, with the help of our software solutions, Dolfin was able to have

• $4.1bn in client assets under management
• $650m monthly brokerage flow
• 10x increased speed of customer and employee onboarding
• 30x more efficiency of its compliance officers

But this is only the beginning. Our mission is to help companies and business professionals around the world communicate with each other and do business with trust and simplified paperwork.

OUR TECH STACK

As a serious, business-oriented company, we develop our solutions exclusively in COBOL.

Just kidding! We use modern and diverse IT infrastructure. Our solutions are web-based, with backends in Golang andPython and frontends in Typescript and React. Data storages include PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and Amazon S3. The infrastructure consists of multiple backend services managed via Kubernetes/Helm, integrated with various AWS and third-party services. We also use Google Bazel, a secure and robust build system.

We strive to make our development process predictable, change-proof and well-organized to achieve the fastest possible product delivery pace without compromising reliability.

OUR TEAM

We are still small: Project Plato is less than 15 people in total but we are planning to grow to 20 soon. As part of the Project Plato back-end team, you will be working closely with Oleg and another 3 senior engineers. Oleg is our lead backend engineer who has been part of the team since 2015 when we established our office in Amsterdam. We are a group that values trust, growth, agility, mutual respect, taking ownership, and learning from each other through a culture of open feedback.

Job requirements

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

• You have a math or computer science background. No diplomas needed, but knowing your graphs and big-Os is a must.
• You know your way around web services. Parlez-vous HTTP? Veux-tu un cookie?
• You know well at least TWO of: Golang, Python, C++, Java/C#, Typescript.
• You are familiar with modern build systems (especially code generation), Unix-based operating systems, Docker/Kubernetes and cloud services.
• You are a self-learner. You can analyze the code and documentation yourself, and you can ask questions when needed. Our team is small and focused, and we do not have spare time for thorough tutoring :(
• You are passionate about quality and reliability. This is not a social media app startup, we deal with big money and strict regulations.
• You are able to take honest and direct feedback and openly discuss the problems.
• You are not afraid of complex problem domains.
• Knowledge of frontend technologies is a plus.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO

• Build and improve web applications for our customers using our frameworks and libraries
• Ensure the application architecture allows easy maintenance and support
• Tune the application performance by optimizing queries, storage and algorithms
• Integrate the applications with 3rd party services (AWS-based and others)
• Work with our customers to define business rules using our domain-specific languages
• Maintain and improve our build and automation infrastructure

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

• Modern technological stack
• Challenging projects with enough possibilities for personal development
• Freedom to do what you do best
• Flexible work schedule
• Working in a team of the most senior developers with high standards and looking out for the most efficient solutions
• Personal development budget, chance to attend courses and conferences abroad
• Top-notch work equipment
• 25 days of holidays
• Above market rate salary
• Culture of learning, agility, innovation and open feedback
• Optional relocation to Amsterdam + Visa sponsorship if needed

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Job Description

We are looking for a full time Backend Software Engineer to join our development team. Job duties will include working on Stream’s core API technology as well as designing and building high-performance software.

What you will be doing

Most of your day will be dedicated to software design, research, and coding. On typical projects, you will have a lot of freedom and you will be paired with another team member. Our team is made up of very experienced engineers, some with more than 10 years of experience. By working together you will learn from each other along the way. You will have an enormous impact on making our API service faster, more scalable and more flexible.

You will add new features to the service and find ways to make the existing ones perform orders of magnitude faster. Our customers have millions of users; they use Stream for mission critical features such as showing content and exposing core functionality of their application. Building stable and reliable software is not just an option: as a member of the development team, you will design and write state-of-the-art software, follow best practices, measure everything and be responsible for deployment to production. You will also spend part of your time talking to our customers and help them to use Stream in their app.

The challenges * Distributed databases: we built our own data store for feeds and for chat * Real-time messaging * High performance: our API responses are in the 10ms range * High scalability: we use sharding, master-master, and master-slave to ensure scalability * High availability: our entire infrastructure is designed and operated to survive entire datacenter crashes * Multi-region: we deploy our service on 4 different continents

You have

• Proficiency in Go
• 5+ years as a backend developer
• Experience with high traffic and high performance applications
• Good knowledge of relational databases
• Experience with building HTTP APIs
• Experience managing your own projects and work in a team

Our tech stack

At Stream we use a wide collection of technologies to offer highly optimized and available features to our customers. Over the years we have experimented with different programming languages, frameworks, databases, and libraries. Here is a short list of the technology that we currently use. Do not worry if you do not master them all or if you do not see your favorite tool or language, you will have the chance to be exposed to most and to convince us to expand the list:

Go, gRPC, RocksDB, Python Postgresql, RabbitMQ AWS, Puppet, CloudFormation Grafana, Graphite, ELK, Jaeger Redis, Memcached

What we have to offer you

Stream employees enjoy some of the best benefits in the industry:

• A team of exceptional engineers
• The chance to work on OSS projects
• A competitive salary
• Company equity
• A pension scheme
• A generous Learning and Development budget
• Commute expenses to Amsterdam covered or option to use a company bike within the city
• Gym membership of choice covered
• MacBook Pro or another development setup
• Healthy team lunches and plenty of snacks
• A generous relocation package
• An office in the heart of Amsterdam
• The opportunity to attend or present to global conferences and meetups
• The possibility to visit our office in Boulder, CO

Our culture

Stream has a casual social culture, our team is diverse and we all have different backgrounds.

Our talented developers are highly technical and collaborative, which makes Stream a great place to learn and improve your skills. When it comes to software engineering our culture is oriented towards ownership and quality: our goal is to deliver stable software.

If you are interested in becoming a part of what we do, apply now!

No recruiters/agencies please

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Job Description

Will you join us on a journey to disrupt the trillion-dollar travel industry? We are looking for the best and brightest who share our passion for travellers, data and product.

FindHotel believes travel is the one thing that opens minds to new ideas, cultures, and ways of thinking. Our mission is to GET EVERY TRAVELLER THE BEST ACCOMMODATION DEAL, WORLDWIDE. From adventure travel and backpacking to honeymoons and family vacations, we genuinely care so that every traveller can make the best-informed accommodation choice at the absolute best conditions for every trip.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Back-end Engineer to help build the best content and mapping product in the industry. You will be joining FindHotel’s Marketplace Platform Tribe, where you will be working with other squads across tribes and closely interact and actively collaborate with the software engineers, data analysts, data scientist, and PO in the team.

We are working with a modern stack consisting of Go, Python, AWS (ElastiCache, StepFunctions, EC2, S3), Snowflake, dedupe, and more. We process large amounts of content daily and integrate with many suppliers. Content and mapping products are an important part of FindHotel’s platform. They allow us to offer the best possible comparison and offers to every traveller, worldwide. Hence, anything that you will develop and ship to production will have immediate effect on our users and on our business performance. We work in a flexible, result-oriented and customer-centric team structure, focussed on shipping value in a collaborative fashion, with hopefully just the right amount of bureaucracy.

What you will actually be doing / responsibilities

• Work in a team to solve challenging problems, and design and develop content and mapping products.
• Integrate and improve (new) provider integrations by adjusting and training mapping models.
• Work with data analysts and data scientists to identify and implement improvements in the mapping of various providers.
• Identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements in terms of performance and code quality.
• Help improving our infrastructure and scale it to support our continuous growth in a cost-effective way.

What a day in the office might look like

In the morning, you and your fellow engineers have a refinement session with the PO to discuss the upcoming features on the roadmap. You carefully consider the impact of the new feature on the entire product and raise questions and make suggestions of what is the most pragmatic approach to balance the technical excellence with the time to market. You are part of a discussion that builds on top of each other suggestions, ideas and comments. Today you have chosen to come to the office and after lunch you play table tennis or pool or go for a walk with colleagues in the city centre. In the afternoon, you enter a deep work period and finish working on improving one of the provider’s mapping models. Once down with that work you jump on a zoom call with the rest of the team to discuss the challenges and next steps with the PoC the team is building in this sprint. Throughout the day you monitor the product operations using DataDog.

Requirements

Who we are looking for / requirements

• You hold a BSc or MSc in Computer Science or related field
• You have a proven track record of designing, developing, and shipping highly scalable software
• You have a proven track record working in a fast-paced agile environment
• You have strong experience with at least two programming languages such as GoLang, C#, Java
• Experience with GoLang and Python is a plus
• You have experience with setting up data pipelines and good understanding of machine learning concepts
• Experience working with data analysts and data scientist on analysing data and identifying improvements is a plus
• You have experience with distributed systems
• You have experience with any of AWS, GitLab, CodeFresh, Terraform, Jenkins and Travis
• You have a sense of pragmatism, constantly finding the right balance between achieving technical excellence and delivering value to the end users.
• You are flexible, curious, and independent, with a strong sense of ownership
• You treat documentation as a first-class citizen.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• You have a can-do and can-learn attitude

Why join now?

• This year we will be helping +1.5M customers around the world find better hotel deals, using data, transparency & industry-leading features
• We are in fast growth mode and have been growing bookings by +100% YOY for the past 2 years and still growing very fast in 2020 despite the pandemic
• Completing our mission means building an efficient tool users love. Doing that in a market as large and as competitive as online accommodation is a rare opportunity to make an impact in the online world.

Is FindHotel the right place for you? Find out by reading our CEO’s blog post

What we offer:

• Plenty of chances to learn and grow – you’ll be surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the city, be part of a culture which values sharing knowledge every day and has a budget to attend conferences and develop yourself.
• A profitable company with fast growth and a great scale opportunity.
• A competitive compensation package + perks and benefits (including Stock Appreciation Rights).
• Flexible time off (take as many holidays as you need) and a chance to work remotely - we measure results, not time spent in the office.
• You will be part of a highly international team in a fun work environment.
• We value good food and offer catered lunches from various cuisines, great coffee, ice-cream in the fridge and the occasional bbq in our garden.

Blog posts worth reading

• How to survive, refocus & thrive again as a travel startup in corona times
• Managing AWS infrastructures our own way
• Our hiring process

Apply ⎘ Copy Link ↗ Visit Link

Job Description

We are looking for a full time, onsite Backend Software Engineer to join our development team. Job duties will include working on Stream’s core API technology as well as designing and building high-performance software.

What you will be doing

Most of your day will be dedicated to software design, research, and coding. On typical projects, you will have a lot of freedom and you will be paired with another team member. Our team is made up of very experienced engineers, some with more than 10 years of experience. By working together you will learn from each other along the way. You will have an enormous impact on making our API service faster, more scalable and more flexible.

You will add new features to the service and find ways to make the existing ones perform orders of magnitude faster. Our customers have millions of users; they use Stream for mission critical features such as showing content and exposing core functionality of their application. Building stable and reliable software is not just an option: as a member of the development team, you will design and write state-of-the-art software, follow best practices, measure everything and be responsible for deployment to production. You will also spend part of your time talking to our customers and help them to use Stream in their app.

The challenges

• Distributed databases: we built our own data store for feeds and for chat
• Real-time messaging
• High performance: our API responses are in the 10ms range
• High scalability: we use sharding, master-master, and master-slave to ensure scalability
• High availability: our entire infrastructure is designed and operated to survive entire datacenter crashes
• Multi-region: we deploy our service on 4 different continents

You have

• Proficiency in Go
• 5+ years as a backend developer
• Experience with high traffic and high performance applications
• Good knowledge of relational databases
• Experience with building HTTP APIs
• Experience managing your own projects and work in a team

Our tech stack

At Stream we use a wide collection of technologies to offer highly optimized and available features to our customers. Over the years we have experimented with different programming languages, frameworks, databases, and libraries. Here is a short list of the technology that we currently use. Do not worry if you do not master them all or if you do not see your favorite tool or language, you will have the chance to be exposed to most and to convince us to expand the list:

Go, gRPC, RocksDB, Python Postgresql, RabbitMQ AWS, Puppet, CloudFormation Grafana, Graphite, ELK, Jaeger Redis, Memcached

What we have to offer you

Stream employees enjoy some of the best benefits in the industry:

• A team of exceptional engineers
• The chance to work on OSS projects
• A competitive salary
• Company equity
• A pension scheme
• A generous Learning and Development budget
• Commute expenses to Amsterdam covered or option to use a company bike within the city
• Gym membership of choice covered
• MacBook Pro or another development setup
• Healthy team lunches and plenty of snacks
• A generous relocation package
• An office in the heart of Amsterdam
• The opportunity to attend or present to global conferences and meetups
• The possibility to visit our office in Boulder, CO

Our culture

Stream has a casual social culture, our team is diverse and we all have different backgrounds.

Our talented developers are highly technical and collaborative, which makes Stream a great place to learn and improve your skills. When it comes to software engineering our culture is oriented towards ownership and quality: our goal is to deliver stable software.

If you are interested in becoming a part of what we do, apply now!

No recruiters/agencies please

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Job Description

We are building the next generation Cloud platform for Bloomreach Experience. This is a platform aimed at developers to run websites and content management systems based on Bloomreach Experience. We are using the latest technologies like Go, Kubernetes and AWS to build a truly outstanding product. We want to differentiate by being smart; no error prone, tedious, manual work. Innovate, not only the product, but also our way of working. Focus on quality, so we can be proud of our product and deliver rapidly.

Responsibilities
You will code and operate our next generation platform, Bloomreach Cloud (BRC). BRC is written in Go on top of Kubernetes and AWS. Your days will be filled working with concepts such as: Kubernetes, Go, AWS, agile, scalability, real-time monitoring, open source, automation, gitops, CI/CD. You will be part of a small, dedicated and cross-functional team where you will have a large and diverse set of responsibilities to support Bloomreach, its customers and its partners.

Must haves

• A university degree (preferably in Computer Science or a related field of study)
• Extensive experience in programming platform and/or infrastructure level software products in Go, Java or C++
• Cloud (building) experience with technologies/services like Kubernetes, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform
• Thorough understanding of and experience administering Linux
• Understanding of networking, architecture and core web technologies like load balancing, web servers, HTTP, DNS and SQL/NoSQL

Nice to have

• AWS product experience (ELB, EBS, RDS, S3, Route53, AMI users, etc)
• Experience with running docker in production, if you know Kubernetes even better
• Experience with CoreOS, helm, etcd is a bonus
• Experience with monitoring, distributed logging and metrics, setting up configuring and analyzing to spot problems (Prometheus, Grafana, Filebeat, Logstash)
• Really have that “monitor everything and anything” mentality, from an alerting as well as a metrics point of view (Pagerduty, OpsGenie, Pingdom)

What we offer
By joining our team, you’ll enjoy:

• A challenging position with lots of growth potential: feel empowered and gain the support you need for personal and professional development.
• A Work from Anywhere philosophy: Work with a team of fiercely intelligent, international coworkers in our office in the heart of
• Amsterdam or work from anywhere! The choice is yours.
• A flat, non-hierarchical structure and open(-source) mentality.
• A commitment to excellence and the fierce loyalty with which we value our team members.

Benefits:

• A yearly discretionary bonus
• State-of-the-art laptop of your choice (e.g. MacBook/Lenovo)
• Stock options
• ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ pension scheme
• Fully reimbursed bike/public transport travel expenses
• A friendly, dynamic culture with plenty of organized events and opportunities to socialize with coworkers” etc.

Only applications of people with a valid working permit for the Netherlands are taken into consideration

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Job Description

Will you join us on a journey to disrupt the trillion-dollar travel industry? We are looking for the best and brightest who share our passion for travellers, data and product.

FindHotel believes travel is the one thing that opens minds to new ideas, cultures, and ways of thinking. Our mission is to GET EVERY TRAVELLER THE BEST ACCOMMODATION DEAL, WORLDWIDE. From adventure travel and backpacking to honeymoons and family vacations, we genuinely care so that every traveller can make the best-informed accommodation choice at the absolute best conditions for every trip.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Back-end Engineer to help build the best content and mapping product in the industry. You will be joining FindHotel’s Marketplace Platform Tribe, where you will be working with other squads across tribes and closely interact and actively collaborate with the software engineers, data analysts, data scientist, and PO in the team.

We are working with a modern stack consisting of Go, Python, AWS (ElastiCache, StepFunctions, EC2, S3), Snowflake, dedupe, and more. We process large amounts of content daily and integrate with many suppliers. Content and mapping products are an important part of FindHotel’s platform. They allow us to offer the best possible comparison and offers to every traveller, worldwide. Hence, anything that you will develop and ship to production will have immediate effect on our users and on our business performance. We work in a flexible, result-oriented and customer-centric team structure, focussed on shipping value in a collaborative fashion, with hopefully just the right amount of bureaucracy.

What you will actually be doing / responsibilities

• Work in a team to solve challenging problems, and design and develop content and mapping products.
• Integrate and improve (new) provider integrations by adjusting and training mapping models.
• Work with data analysts and data scientists to identify and implement improvements in the mapping of various providers.
• Identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements in terms of performance and code quality.
• Help improving our infrastructure and scale it to support our continuous growth in a cost-effective way.

What a day in the office might look like

In the morning, you and your fellow engineers have a refinement session with the PO to discuss the upcoming features on the roadmap. You carefully consider the impact of the new feature on the entire product and raise questions and make suggestions of what is the most pragmatic approach to balance the technical excellence with the time to market. You are part of a discussion that builds on top of each other suggestions, ideas and comments. Today you have chosen to come to the office and after lunch you play table tennis or pool or go for a walk with colleagues in the city centre. In the afternoon, you enter a deep work period and finish working on improving one of the provider’s mapping models. Once down with that work you jump on a zoom call with the rest of the team to discuss the challenges and next steps with the PoC the team is building in this sprint. Throughout the day you monitor the product operations using DataDog.

Who we are looking for / requirements

• You hold a BSc or MSc in Computer Science or related field
• You have a proven track record of designing, developing, and shipping highly scalable software
• You have a proven track record working in a fast-paced agile environment
• You have strong experience with at least two programming languages such as GoLang, C#, Java
• Experience with GoLang and Python is a plus
• You have experience with setting up data pipelines and good understanding of machine learning concepts
• Experience working with data analysts and data scientist on analysing data and identifying improvements is a plus
• You have experience with distributed systems
• You have experience with any of AWS, GitLab, CodeFresh, Terraform, Jenkins and Travis
• You have a sense of pragmatism, constantly finding the right balance between achieving technical excellence and delivering value to the end users.
• You are flexible, curious, and independent, with a strong sense of ownership
• You treat documentation as a first-class citizen.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• You have a can-do and can-learn attitude

Why join now?

• This year we will be helping +1.5M customers around the world find better hotel deals, using data, transparency & industry-leading features
• We are in fast growth mode and have been growing bookings by +100% YOY for the past 2 years and still growing very fast in 2020 despite the pandemic
• Completing our mission means building an efficient tool users love. Doing that in a market as large and as competitive as online accommodation is a rare opportunity to make an impact in the online world.

Is FindHotel the right place for you? Find out by reading our CEO’s blog post

What we offer

• Plenty of chances to learn and grow – you’ll be surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the city, be part of a culture which values sharing knowledge every day and has a budget to attend conferences and develop yourself.
• A profitable company with fast growth and a great scale opportunity.
• A competitive compensation package + perks and benefits (including Stock Appreciation Rights).
• Flexible time off (take as many holidays as you need) and a chance to work remotely - we measure results, not time spent in the office.
• You will be part of a highly international team in a fun work environment.
• We value good food and offer catered lunches from various cuisines, great coffee, ice-cream in the fridge and the occasional bbq in our garden.

Blog posts worth reading

• How to survive, refocus & thrive again as a travel startup in corona times
• Managing AWS infrastructures our own way
• Our hiring process

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Job Description

Do you want to make a difference? Do you excel in creating beautiful pragmatic solutions to complex problems? Are you an excellent Go developer? If so, we would like to meet you. You can find more information on our hiring process on our website.

We want you to excel, which is why we can offer you to:

• never get bored!
• have a large influence on the direction of summitto
• earn a competitive salary with stock options
• get access to the latest and best equipment
• experience rapid technical and personal development
• work with us in Amsterdam, a fun and always vibrant city!

We also excitedly share our technical discoveries and ideas for design. When you develop an interesting feature or find an awesome vim trick, get ready for a discussion.

About our software

Here is a little taste of your challenge, you will help build our:

• large data analysis pipelines and tooling
• user management system
• API and surrounding documentation
• ETL-focused integrations

Our backend infrastructure is written in C++, Rust and Go. We use the best tools for the job, and when those involve different languages and frameworks, we don’t shy away from the challenge. Note that most of your work will be in pure Go with maybe a bit of JavaScript.

We’re looking for junior to senior engineers who:

• enjoy challenging projects
• are part-time or full-time available
• have experience coding in Go
• want to change the world for the better through software

We are a passionate team, looking for new talented engineers to become a part of it. You will work directly with the founders to positively impact millions of lives. Come revolutionize the European economy! Are you ready for the challenge?

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Job Description

What you will be doing Most of your day will be dedicated to software design, research, and coding. On typical projects, you will have a lot of freedom and you will be paired with another team member. Our team is made up of very experienced engineers, some with more than 10 years of experience. By working together you will learn from each other along the way. You will have an enormous impact on making our API service faster, more scalable and more flexible.

You will add new features to the service and find ways to make the existing ones perform orders of magnitude faster. Our customers have millions of users; they use Stream for mission critical features such as showing content and exposing core functionality of their application. Building stable and reliable software is not just an option: as a member of the development team, you will design and write state-of-the-art software, follow best practices, measure everything and be responsible for deployment to production. You will also spend part of your time talking to our customers and help them to use Stream in their app.

The challenges Distributed databases: we built our own data store for feeds and for chat Real-time messaging High performance: our API responses are in the 10ms range High scalability: we use sharding, master-master, and master-slave to ensure scalability High availability: our entire infrastructure is designed and operated to survive entire datacenter crashes Multi-region: we deploy our service on 4 different continents

You have * Proficiency in Go or you are a Senior backend developer willing and able to learn quickly * 5+ years as a backend developer * Experience with high traffic and high performance applications * Good knowledge of relational databases * Experience with building HTTP APIs * Experience managing your own projects and work in a team

Our tech stack At Stream we use a wide collection of technologies to offer highly optimized and available features to our customers. Over the years we have experimented with different programming languages, frameworks, databases, and libraries. Here is a short list of the technology that we currently use. Do not worry if you do not master them all or if you do not see your favorite tool or language, you will have the chance to be exposed to most and to convince us to expand the list:

• Go, gRPC, RocksDB, Python
• Postgresql, RabbitMQ
• AWS, Puppet, CloudFormation
• Grafana, Graphite, ELK, Jaeger
• Redis, Memcached

What we have to offer you Stream employees enjoy some of the best benefits in the industry:

• A competitive salary
• Company equity
• A team of exceptional engineers
• The chance to work on OSS projects
• MacBook Pro or other development setup
• Healthy team lunches and plenty of snacks
• A generous relocation package
• An office in the heart of Amsterdam
• The opportunity to attend or present to global conferences and meetups
• The possibility to visit our office in Boulder, CO

Our culture Stream has a casual social culture, our team is diverse and we all have different backgrounds.

Our talented developers are highly technical and collaborative, which makes Stream a great place to learn and improve your skills. When it comes to software engineering our culture is oriented towards ownership and quality: our goal is to deliver stable software.

If you are interested in becoming a part of what we do, apply now!

No recruiters/agencies please

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We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our development team in Amsterdam. Job duties will include working on Stream’s core API technology as well as designing and building high-performance software.

What you will be doing

Most of your day will be dedicated to software design, research, and coding. On typical projects, you will have a lot of freedom and you will be paired with another team member. Our team is made up of very experienced engineers, some with more than 10 years of experience. By working together you will learn from each other along the way. You will have an enormous impact on making our API service faster, more scalable and more flexible.

You will add new features to the service and find ways to make the existing ones perform orders of magnitude faster. Our customers have millions of users; they use Stream for mission critical features such as showing content and exposing core functionality of their application. Building stable and reliable software is not just an option: as a member of the development team, you will design and write state-of-the-art software, follow best practices, measure everything and be responsible for deployment to production. You will also spend part of your time talking to our customers and help them to use Stream in their app.

The challenges

• Distributed databases: we built our own data store for feeds and for chat
• Real-time messaging
• High performance: our API responses are in the 10ms range
• High scalability: we use sharding, master-master, and master-slave to ensure scalability
• High availability: our entire infrastructure is designed and operated to survive entire datacenter crashes
• Multi-region: we deploy our service on 4 different continents

Our tech stack

At Stream we use a wide collection of technologies to offer highly optimized and available features to our customers. Over the years we have experimented with different programming languages, frameworks, databases, and libraries. Here is a short list of the technology that we currently use. Do not worry if you do not master them all or if you do not see your favorite tool or language, you will have the chance to be exposed to most and to convince us to expand the list:

• Go, gRPC, RocksDB, Python
• Postgresql, RabbitMQ
• AWS, Puppet, CloudFormation
• Grafana, Graphite, ELK, Jaeger
• Redis, Memcached

What we have to offer you

Stream employees enjoy some of the best benefits in the industry:

• A competitive salary
• Company equity
• A team of exceptional engineers
• Healthy team lunches
• Plenty of snacks and fancy coffee/teas
• An office in the heart of Amsterdam
• The possibility to visit our office in Boulder, CO
• The opportunity and support to attend and/or present to industry-related conferences and meetups
• The chance to work on OSS projects

Our culture

Stream has a casual social culture, our team is diverse and we all have different backgrounds. Our Amsterdam team is very focused: you will see us heads down coding or drawing complex charts on whiteboards, until we pop up to have a chat or play merciless games of ping pong.

Our talented developers are highly technical and collaborative, which makes Stream a great place to learn and improve your skills. When it comes to software engineering our culture is oriented towards ownership and quality: our goal is to deliver stable software.

If you are interested in becoming a part of what we do, apply now!

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Our true purpose at Castor

Castor is one of the leading platforms for data collection in medical research. We believe standardizing and reusing datasets is key to overcoming the healthcare challenges of the future.

How we operate

Our main Electronic Data Capture (EDC) application runs on a proven stack consisting of Ubuntu, Nginx, PHP and MySQL. For our cloud installations, we orchestrate these setups by using Terraform combined with Ansible for the server configuration management.

Due to the nature of processing medical data, we have clients in different regions across the globe, often with specific regulatory constraints around where and how their research data is stored. To meet these customer demands we combine both traditional as well as cloud-based hosting solutions.

Most of our clients prefer to run in Azure, but we’re using Google Cloud Platform for things like Kubernetes hosting of greenfield projects, blob storage for scalable file upload storage and their Key Management System (KMS) to further secure our data.

For our metrics we’ve begun standardizing on Prometheus and we’re moving towards Loki for log aggregation. We use PagerDuty for alerting, communicate via Slack and host our code on Github.

Why we’re growing our team

With our recent expansion have come new challenges, both in how we organize ourselves and in how we manage and scale our infrastructure in the future.

To further these efforts we have formed a Platform team consisting of SRE and Software Engineering, which we are now looking to grow with the addition of an additional SRE.

Additionally, due to the sensitive nature of medical data, Castor is certified for both ISO/IEC 9001 (quality) and 27001 (Information security). In addition, we have to adhere to a number of other regulations, including Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines.

Our goal is to unite these requirements with emerging SRE practices around infrastructure as code and other principles to create a well designed and documented system, while still allowing us to remain flexible to change.

How you will contribute

Our absolute commitment to patient data security and privacy informs our vendor selection with certified datacenter and cloud providers. To achieve real impact in medical research, Castor needs to operate security around the world.

Historically, our production platform has run on top of managed hosting services. This model doesn’t scale well for our global, international footprint, which is why we are currently expanding our in-house knowledge and transitioning to Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll have the ability to shape our operations and continuously deliver a working product. Working very closely with the development teams, you’ll collaborate in supporting and structuring our efforts around automation, observability and security. With your help we plan to scale the Castor platform to the next level.

Some things we worked on recently

Whilst there are many operational challenges as we continue to grow and scale at Castor, our Platform team has made great improvements to a variety of our systems already. To give you some examples of what we achieved last month:

• Migrated our DNS to AWS Route53
• Set up automatic documentation pipelines using MkDocs
• Moved our CI/CD pipelines from Jenkins to CircleCI
• Built a key-service on AWS Lambda to store disk encryption keys off-site for an otherwise region-local setup

Your background

You have helped run web-facing services under production workloads and have experienced the challenges that come with maintaining and scaling these systems. Making and owning decisions about systems architecture together with your team is something you enjoy and feel comfortable with.

Qualities we’re looking for include:

• A good grasp on how *NIX systems operate
• The ability to evaluate and implement best practices for IT operations
• A working knowledge of both cloud-native and traditional systems architecture and the trade-offs between them
• Experience with a configuration management framework such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet or SaltStack
• The ability and desire to work with a wide range of open source technologies
• A strong privacy- and security mindset
• Experience with some aspects of Observability and distributed systems: from monitoring, logging and metrics instrumentation to resiliency to failure
• A good understanding of how relational databases operate
• Experience with at least one programming or scripting language, preferably Python or Go(lang)
• Knowledge that a list of skills and requirements doesn’t mean you have to tick every single box to apply ;)

How we say thank you

At Castor we truly live our core values, believing we can achieve anything with a healthy and happy team. With this in mind, we offer the following benefits:

• Our own ‘Castor Burrow’ - brand new offices by Amsterdam Amstelstation
• A competitive salary plus an annual company bonus plan
• Employee Stock Option Programme incentive
• 30 days annual leave plus 6 public holidays
• An individual training and professional development budget
• Flexible working with the opportunity to work from home 1 day per week
• Meditation room with daily yoga, mindfulness and company subscription to Calm
• Lunch and healthy snacks in the office every day
• A new Mac or Dell laptop

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At FindHotel, we discovered early that travel is the one thing that opens people’s minds to new ideas, cultures, and ways of thinking. Our team comes from a variety of countries and backgrounds, and share the same passion for traveling and discovering new worlds and unconventional ways of doing things. We’re a bunch of independent thinkers, always looking to challenge each other and get better at what we do.

Our mission is to get every traveller in the world the best accommodation deal. From adventure and backpacking to honeymoons and family vacations, we give travellers access to all the information and the available offers for their accommodation of choice. We’re a passionate and diverse team of amazing humans who value and respect each other. We’re spread between our HQ in Amsterdam and the countries our remote folks work from. We’re growing fast! In 2017 and 2018 we’ve been doubling our business year-over-year, and we’ve been helping one million customers in 2019 alone.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team. If you are looking to join us remotely, we’ll need you to be located within UTC-4 to UTC+6 to reasonably overlap with your team members.

At our core, we build highly performant, scalable and reliable services and components. We work with modern technologies such as Go and Elixir - and, as we embrace the DevOps culture, our infrastructure-as-code in the cloud (AWS) is managed and run using tools like Docker, Jenkins, and Terraform. You will be a part of a squad of bright engineers with a passion for delivering great software, as well as team members from a broader range of disciplines - data analysts and scientists, product owners, UX experts, and marketing specialists.

What you will actually be doing / responsibilities

• Work in a team to solve challenging problems, integrating accommodation providers and building blazing-fast services that serve their data
• Identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements in terms of performance and code quality
• Help improving our infrastructure and scale it to support our continuous growth in a cost-effective way
• Support the growth of junior and intermediate engineers by coaching them in their daily tasks, as well as raising the bar of how things are done within both your team and the bigger engineering group

What can you expect at the beginning of this experience?

• In your first week, you will get acquainted to the squads, its codebase and the tooling, with the goal of shipping something to production and build confidence early on;
• In your first month, you will get to know more people from the other squads and disciplines, in order to understand the foundation of the business and the various bits it is made of;
• One quarter in, you will be effectively an active member of your squad and your teammates will fully count on you; you will have built meaningful relationships within the company and be comfortable discussing ideas, inside and outside of your squad’s scope; ideally, you will have presented a topic you are fond of in one of our internal knowledge sharing sessions and/or demoed some work the team did during our weekly all-hands meeting

Typical day activities

• Team sessions (with your fellow engineers and PO) to check data and brainstorm ways to improve several services performance and design scalable solutions
• Solve open issues that affect component infrastructure reliability
• Propose and discuss with fellow engineers efficient solutions for components and architectural design.

Requirements: Who we’re looking for

• You are used to work and think outside of the box, and not afraid to present unconventional ideas and solutions.
• You have at least 6 years experience in back-end development using a modern set up and tooling
• You have a great understanding of APIs, databases, data structures, queues, and all things back-end, with a strong passion for automation
• You have worked on a production system that was exposed to significant scale (whether traffic or amount of data) and you are excited by these kinds of challenges
• You have a sense of pragmatism, constantly finding the right balance between achieving technical excellence and delivering value to the end users
• You are flexible, curious, and data-guided in helping us decide what to work on next
• You engage with your team and all the engineering group actively, sharing knowledge and best practices in order to improve with them every day
• You have production experience working with AWS and you have taken care of CI / deployments / infrastructure in the past
• Production experience with Golang or Elixir is a big plus
• Experience with Terraform is a nice to have

What we offer:

• Challenging problems and tech to work on.
• Growth opportunities within the team and cross-functionally.
• An amazing team of curious and diverse personalities, with a passion for learning (everyone has access to an annual learning budget to attend conferences or courses).
• A growing Remote culture where you have a chance to deeply influence the way we work with each other.
• A competitive compensation package and Stock Appreciation Rights.
• Flexible time off (take as many holidays as you need) and a chance to work remotely - we measure results, not time spent at keyboard.
• Annual company retreat in some great location - check out our Mallorca trip in 2019
• Regular trips to Amsterdam’s HQ for remotes (depending on team priorities, 1-4 times a year)

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Will you join us on a journey to disrupt the trillion dollar travel industry? We are looking for the best and brightest who share our passion for travellers, data, and product.

FindHotel believes travel is the one thing that really opens minds to new ideas, cultures, and ways of thinking. Our mission is to get every traveller in the world the best accommodation deal. From adventure travel and backpacking to honeymoons and family vacations, we deeply care so that every traveller can make the best informed accommodation choice at the absolute best conditions for every trip.

We are growing fast and looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join us in becoming a global travel category leader.

We build highly performant, scalable services and components that power our product and provide our users with the best content and deals the accommodation industry has to offer. Scalability, reliability, and great performances are the core of what we build. We work with modern stacks (Go, Elixir, Node.js, Python) and, as we embrace the DevOps culture, our infrastructure-as-code in the cloud (AWS) is managed via tools like Docker, Jenkins, and Terraform.

Should you join us, not only you will get exposed to some bright engineers with a passion for delivering great software, you will also get the chance to collaborate with team members from a broader range of disciplines, including data analysts and scientists, product owners, UX experts, and marketing specialists.

What you will actually be doing / responsibilities

Work in a team to solve challenging problems, integrating accommodation providers and building blazing-fast services that serve their data Identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvements in terms of performance and code quality Help improving our infrastructure and scale it to support our continuous growth in a cost-effective way Support the growth of junior and intermediate engineers by coaching them in their daily tasks, as well as raising the bar of how things are done within both your team and the bigger engineering group What a day in the office might look like

In the morning, you and your fellow engineers sit down with the Product Owner to discuss the performance of a not-so-fast API endpoint. Comparing the ideal performance to the data collected by our monitoring systems, you brainstorm together a few ideas of how to improve the service’s performance and design a scalable solution. After lunch, you jump onto an open issue and prepare a pull request that improves the infrastructure’s reliability for one of the most delicate components. Before the end of the day, you put together some ideas on how to improve another component’s design and organize an architecture review session with some engineers across teams to discuss the benefits and costs of your proposed solution.

Requirements Who we are looking for / requirements

You have at least 6 years experience in back-end development using a modern set up and tooling You have a great understanding of APIs, databases, data structures, queues, and all things back-end, with a strong passion for automation You have worked on a production system that was exposed to significant scale (whether traffic or amount of data) and you are excited by these kinds of challenges You have a sense of pragmatism, constantly finding the right balance between achieving technical excellence and delivering value to the end users You are flexible, curious, and data-guided in helping us decide what to work on next You engage with your team and all the engineering group actively, sharing knowledge and best practices in order to improve with them every day You have production experience working with AWS and you have taken care of CI / deployments / infrastructure in the past Production experience with Golang is a big plus Experience with Terraform is a nice to have

Perks & Benefits

Why join FindHotel?

Lots of chances to learn and grow – you’ll be surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the city, be part of a culture which values sharing knowledge every day and have a budget to attend conferences and develop yourself. A profitable company with fast growth and a great scale opportunity. A competitive compensation package + perks and benefits. (including Stock Appreciation Rights) Flexible time off (take as many holidays as you need) and chance to work remotely - we measure results, not time spent in the office. You will be part of a highly international team in a fun work environment. We value good food, and offer catered lunches from various cuisines.

Interview Process

You can read about our hiring process here: https://blog.findhotel.net/2019/05/the-hiring-process-at-findhotel/

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The Role

As one of the fastest growing Online companies in Europe, we offer a unique opportunity for you:

Our team collaborates on solving some complex development tasks that result from our continually increasing numbers of sellers and buyers (15 million monthly visitors and rising!). We’ve already implemented localisations for various European countries and will be expanding even further, outside of Europe, in the near future. And that is why we need your help!

We want to expand our team by introducing even more expert knowledge. You will work on challenges around scale, microservice architecture and implementing new features in Product focused innovation teams in which Front-End developers, Back-End developers, a Designer, a Data Scientist, and a Product Owner all work closely together. We are driven by A/B-testing and automated testing, which allows us to do multiple releases per day on our high-traffic website.

You will work with Ruby on Rails, nginx, MySql, Redis, ElasticSearch, Javascript, React, and Git in an agile development team of 60+ developers (and growing). We have headquarters in both Assen and Amsterdam in The Netherlands.

Your Experience

• If you know Ruby, then great! If not, that’s no problem as long as you’re happy to learn it.
• Aside from this, we value people with excellent communication and collaboration skills
• A curious mindset.
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles, including some of the following: Data Structures, Microservices, API development, Databases, System design, A/B testing and data-driven feature development.

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Please note: if you’re a recruiter or a development company, don’t waste your time contacting us. We are not interested for sure.

At Careibu we are aiming to build the best social care community by students in the world. We are looking for capable, creative developers who want to help us accomplish that goal.

About Careibu Careibu is all about social care. Through our platform, we connect students to people for help at home. Our students work as babysitters, home cleaners and elderly assistants. Careibu’s Dutch community consists of 32.000+ students and 13.000+ clients. In Juni 2018, we officially launched in the German market (Berlin). Our mission is to bring all generations in society together and provide students a social side job.

Careibu was founded in student accommodation by two sisters, Lotte and Anne. They have grown the business from their student rooms to a team of 13 people which continues to rapidly grow. Our head office is located in Amsterdam.

Things we are working on We’re still a small company with an even smaller development team (CTO, product owner, backend developer and 2 mobile developers). This means you will need to wear many hats in the beginning but it also means there are many interesting challenges ahead that you can specialise in if you like. Broadly we are: – Migrating from legacy platform which has some interesting challenges – Improving and expanding our iOS & Android applications

Our technology stack We still maintain a stack built in Angular 1 (web UI), PHP (backend) and MySQL (data), however we are incrementally migrating to a new technology stack based on a Golang backend with native mobile apps (Swift for iOS and Java for Android).

Since we develop, test, deploy and operate our systems, we do work with other technologies that automate such processes, like GitLab, GitLab-CI, Docker and AWS’s ECS & RDS.

You should apply if – You want to be involved in building a product that has a social impact – You’ve worked in GoLang or you are a senior backend dev willing and able to learn quickly – You don’t mind exploring our legacy PHP system & rebuilding functionality on our new platform – You like to also be involved in improving the devops aspects of our stack – Experience with any of AWS EC2 & ECS, Docker or JavaScript/NodeJS is a big plus – You have a proactive attitude and are not afraid of failing – You (want to) live in the Netherlands (remote is not possible) – You have a EU passport (we don’t provide visa’s)

You want to apply or you have any questions? Email Anne (anne[at]careibu.com).

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