Job description
Imagine standing at the top of the Empire State Building, taking in the breathtaking view. From the online booking to the seamless entry, every part of your ticketing experience was designed and supported by Ventrata. An industry-leading SaaS platform that helps attractions, tours, and activities to create memorable experiences.
Backed by a passionate team, headquartered in London and with offices in Brno, Lisbon, and remote teams worldwide, we’re expanding rapidly across multiple markets and verticals. Our mission is to help businesses of all sizes scale and grow while preserving their unique identity and spirit.
Be a part of something extraordinary, where your ideas and contributions truly matter. Let’s shape the future of travel together.
Who are we looking for?
Ventrata is looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer to join our dynamic team of talented developers who are revolutionizing how tours and tickets are sold worldwide. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a small team within a larger engineering organization at a rapidly growing company.
While we support a distributed/remote work environment, we also have shared office spaces available in Brno and Lisbon. Candidates based in these locations — or anywhere across Europe — are encouraged to apply.
What will be your main responsibilities?
- Optimization and refactoring of our ‘Dashboard’.
- Integration of new payment processing methods.
- Developing new features defined within the product roadmap.
- Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code.
- Manage our database and external services.
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices
- Troubleshoot and resolve bugs and performance issues.
We could write much more, but we believe that you as a Senior developer, know what is expected…
What does our ideal candidate look like?
The ideal candidate will be a Ruby wizard with solid experience of backend engineering. You will be a critical thinker with a high attention to detail. You will need to keep up with the fast pace of development and thrive in a startup environment. Do you have previous experience with a ticketing system? Even better …
And a few more requirements…
- Expert knowledge of Ruby on Rails.
- Expert knowledge of PostgreSQL.
- Advanced knowledge of Google CLoud.
- Intermediate English.
- Familiarity with Hotwire/Turbo/Stimulus
- Fast learner, who enjoys the dynamic scale-up working environment and is able to adapt to changes quickly and NO is not the answer you use (could be a tricky one during our team-buildings).
What can we offer?
- We are fairly informal about working hours. We want to make sure you like your job and wanna go an extra mile for us.
- Unlimited paid holiday days.
- Start-up working environment.
- WFH or work remotely.
- Team buildings and company remote office. Sounds boring? The whole team met in Spain, South Africa, Italy, Portugal, France and this year also in Greece.
- We have two office locations: the core team is located in Brno and we have one newly opened office in Lisbon. How does working for a month from Lisbon sound? :)
- Young and passionate team - the ‘Ventrata family”
- Hardware/ remote setup package.
- Competitive salary and regular salary revaluation.
- Christmas bonuses.
Did we catch your eye or maybe also your heart and do you want to become part of the Ventrata team? Send us your CV and join us!
About Ventrata
Ventrata is an enterprise ticketing platform designed for high-volume attractions, museums, observatory towers, sightseeing tours, and activity operators. Our all-in-one solution powers online, in-person, and third-party sales, and provides robust functionality for resource management, hardware integrations, and 24⁄7 live support.
Leading brands across diverse verticals trust Ventrata’s solutions, and our focus on building long-term connections is key to mutual success. Since 2016, we have worked with many City Sightseeing operations and have teamed up with notable companies like Big Bus Tours and Historic Tours of America. Our recent partnerships, including those with English Heritage, Paradoxon, the Empire State Building, Thames Clippers, and many others established over the past two years, show strong potential to evolve into enduring, long-term relationships. These examples represent just a few of our many collaborations driving the innovation behind the 21 million tickets we sold in 2023 — a 60% increase from the previous year.
What truly sets us apart is our independence — we’ve been profitable since 2018, with no reliance on venture capital. This financial stability allows us to innovate and grow on our own terms.
We value collaboration and freedom ensuring that every team member has the space to take ownership, be heard, and drive real impact.
