Summary
The job is for a remote software engineer position at Triptease, a tech company in the online travel industry based in Portugal. The role involves working in a small, autonomous team on distributed systems using TypeScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, Mongo, Google Cloud Run / Kubernetes, BigQuery, Pub/Sub.
Requirements
- You are collaborative, open-minded, and looking to continue to develop your craft
- Experience writing distributed, high availability, high throughput systems maintaining data consistency
- You are proud of the code you produce; it’s obvious, concise and rarely needs to be commented. You always like to leave the code better than you found it, and are experienced with refactoring techniques
- You see writing tests as an integral part of the development process and understand the benefit of writing code and tests in small increments
- Excellent skills in developing a solution all the way from client-side through to server-side
- You love shipping code and seeing how it performs in production and therefore are passionate about delivery pipelines, A/B testing, real-time analytics and monitoring tools like DataDog
- You are customer-centric and work well with product managers
- You have a solid understanding of HTTP and how the internet works
- Expert knowledge at using tests to drive the design of the application
- You have experience with building deployment pipelines and continuous delivery on cloud platforms (we use Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Terraform and Kubernetes)
Preferred Qualifications
- Bonus Points for:. You have an entrepreneurial streak, with some great examples of how you saw an opportunity and made it happen
- Working in cross-functional teams practising XP and Kanban techniques
- You have experience in multiple different programming languages and understand the value in bringing ideas from other ecosystems into your current environment
Benefits
- 25 Days holiday (rising to 26 on one year anniversary then 27 on your second anniversary)
- Pension - Salary Exchange Pension Scheme (min. 5% employee contribution + 4% employer contribution)
- Share options
- Working abroad for 4 weeks a year (within a -/+ 3 hours time zone of the UK)
- Enhanced maternity & paternity leave
- Ben benefits* (£50 per month health and wellbeing budget) You can use this for gym membership, private healthcare, massages, therapy, cinema etc
- Learning budget - £250 per calendar year *
- Life Event leave (marriage, divorce, moving house, child’s first day at school, ceremony or graduation)
- Make a Difference (volunteering) day
- Cycle to Work*
- Tech Scheme*
- Monthly remote and in-office socials
- Quarterly review socials
- Hybrid working environment
- Refer a Friend policy
- Flexibility with childcare
- Sabbaticals (from year three onwards)
