Sr BE Engineer (TS)

About the Position

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Senior Backend Engineer (TS) to join our dynamic team. If you are excited about development and ready to contribute to our innovative projects, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Develop, optimize, and maintain backend services and web APIs using Python.
• Take ownership of features from technical clarification and design through implementation, release, monitoring, and production support.
• Contribute to technical design and architecture decisions within the team.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and possible improvements early and communicate them to the Team Lead and other engineers.
• Create and maintain relevant technical documentation.
• Conduct thoughtful code reviews and help maintain engineering standards.
• Collaborate with frontend/mobile engineers, QA, Product Managers, designers, and engineers from other teams.
• Actively contribute ideas and knowledge to the cross-team Backend Chapter.
• Participate in team activities such as planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.
• Investigate and resolve production issues, including performance and reliability problems.

Requirements

• Strong experience with server-side development using Python for 6+ years.
• Strong understanding of web APIs, HTTP, and API design principles.
• Experience with asynchronous Python programming.
• Ability to design maintainable technical solutions and evaluate trade-offs.
• Ability to write high-quality, well-structured, reusable, and testable code.
• Effectively use AI coding tools and agents for software development tasks, including implementing features, writing tests, debugging, and documentation.
• Experience working with databases, caching, and distributed systems.
• Can independently investigate production issues using dashboards, metrics, logs, traces, and error-tracking tools.
• Ability to estimate work, identify dependencies and risks, and break larger features into deliverable steps.
• Proactively identifies gaps in tests, documentation, monitoring, and overall code quality and takes ownership of improving them.
• B2+ (upper Intermediate +) level of English and are ready to use it in everyday communication.

Nice to Have

• Experience with aiohttp/fastapi, marshmallow/openAPI.
• Familiarity with AWS, Mongo, Redis, Datadog, Sentry, Clickhouse, Splunk, S3, Unleash, Docker, git, Contentful, Dynaconf.

We Offer

• Results-oriented startup mindset with a stable business model backed by a billion-dollar global travel company.
• Competitive salary.
• Medical insurance.
• English courses.
• Conferences, workshops, certifications refund.
• A friendly, professional, and highly skilled team working with the newest technologies.
• A great office location in the very center of Kyiv near metro stations Zoloti Vorota/ Teatralna/ Khreschatyk (we have an extra “coffee” kitchen for coffee geeks, a game zone with a kicker and a bomb shelter in the building).
• Flexible working hours and the ability to choose between office, remote, or a mix of both.
• 25 working days of vacation + 6 covered sick days.
• A lab day once a month to dedicate to a project of your own or a study project.
• Opportunities for career growth.

About the Company

We are a tech team of adventurous travelers, who were once a part of YCombinator alumni - GetGoing Inc., founded in 2012 by Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley graduates. We also raised ~$10M in venture capital from Silicon Valley. In 2016 we joined BCD Travel (www.bcdtravel.com), a global corporate travel management company with annual sales of $25 billion, to bring our unique technology of hotel booking to BCD Travel’s products.

The product we develop is a B2B booking platform for business trips, which helps users book hotels, flights, and cars. It provides both business travelers and their travel agents with detailed itineraries and the best booking options. Every day thousands of business travelers across the world use our software built on modern technology.

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