Position: Senior Backend Developer
Company: FirstFive
Experience required: 5y
Category: Other
English level: upper
Published: 2021-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

**Industry:**

Travel


**You will:**

- Help clients potentially save millions of dollars in travel expenses.

- Help build a complex system that manages billions of dollars in Air Spend and tracks hundreds of millions of data points automatically. We mainly use Python and Kotlin. The position is mostly about:
      - Backend services, infrastructure and data pipelines
      - Complex business logic and filtering
      - Fare tracking optimization

- Help FairFly grow its product offering and potential client base considerably.


**Must haves:**

- 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering.

- C.S Degree from a leading academic institution or work experience from an elite relevant unit in the army.

- Evidence of exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale application (e.g., solving bottlenecks, improving architecture to solve scale issues in time).

- Experience with Django/Python or Java

- Experience deploying to Linux environments

- Experience connecting to 3rd party APIs using REST/SOAP

- People person, strong team player and able to give and receive feedback, always looking to improve and learn.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

**Big plus:**

- Familiarity with the Travel Industry and specifically working with GDS (Sabre/Amadeus/Travelport) APIs

- Involvement in open-source projects or cool side projects

- Familiarity with agile, scrum and continuous-everything methodologies


**Technologies**: Django & Java & Kotlin & Linux & Python & REST & SOAP