Position: Principal Developer (Amsterdam)
Company: Travix
Category: Java
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Responsible**

Leads the design of a successful highly distributed, large scale platform that has a major impact on the internal and external users
Serves as a back-end tech lead on large scale projects
Hands-on development of proof of concepts and evaluation of new technologies
Implement technical strategic decisions in cross-functional teams
Works closely with product owners and engineers to design, implement, continually improve highly scalable applications and services
Provides technical guidance to other team members
Maintains a current understanding of industry and technology trends
Communicates and enforces coding standards

**Skilled**

12+ years of software development experience, minimum of 3 years in lead/architect role
Experience and understanding about how to develop and operate strategic systems
Proven hands-on experience in designing, building, improving and operating high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems in a fast-growing environment
Experience with service-oriented architecture (SOA) is preferred
Extensive experience with software development processes
Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data storage and processing
Ability to design and solve complex business problems by writing simple, effective code
Eager to work in multiple programming languages and frameworks and constantly striving to raise technical excellence
Ability to convince, provide work direction and leadership to colleagues who do not directly report to this role
Experience mentoring and growing (senior) developers, not through reporting lines, but through thorough and convincing communication is preferred
Excellent communication skills. Demonstrated ability to use data to influence and drive decisions
Strong customer focus and passion for doing the right thing for the customer

**Offered**

Living and working in Amsterdam, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe
Contributing to a high scale, complex, world-renowned product and seeing the real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
Working in a fast-paced and performance-driven culture
Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and entrepreneurial spirit
Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions
Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences, and active community participation
Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks