Tiqets Hiring for Backend Developer at Rome, OR Full Time

Tiqets is one of the fastest-growing tech scale-ups in the Netherlands. To help us continue to make culture more accessible, we’re hiring a Backend Developer in Rome, Barcelona or Germany to join us!

Full-time · Rome OR Barcelona OR Germany

Who are we?
We’re revolutionising the way people buy tickets to culture and attractions all over the world. Our technology lets users easily book tickets to the best attractions in seconds, meaning customers can enter museums, zoos, theme parks, and more faster than ever.
We’re dedicated to bringing simplicity to the world of travel and entertainment. If you want to join our team, working as a Backend Developer, send us your CV. We might be looking for YOU!
Our values

• Be accessible: Help out, communicate honestly, and be there for each other.
• Be remarkable: Have fun, think creatively, and celebrate great moments together.
• Skip the line: Be fast, flexible, and smart; take responsibility and push forward.

Life at Tiqets

What you and your team will do

At Tiqets we love to challenge the status quo. As a Tiqeteer, you will learn and you will teach; inspire and be inspired; intellectually challenge and be challenged. You will have fun, you will entertain, you will have freedom, autonomy, and work as part of a cohesive team.
We work in multidisciplinary teams combining roles such as Product Owner, Design, Backend, Frontend, Data Analysis. As a backend engineer, you will be part of our B2B, B2C, or enabler teams. Our B2B and B2C teams focus on optimizing the connection with our venues and suppliers, making tickets available to customers and distributors, ensuring the optimal checkout experience both on web and our App. The Enabler teams power the growth of Tiqets on the operational, technical, and business sides.
Our tech people work from home and our head office in Amsterdam Hybrid), but we also have offices in Italy (Rome) and Spain (Barcelona). We also have an office soon in Germany. Therefore it is possible to work from these countries. Just like our office in Amsterdam, this will be a hybrid way of working. (Germany will be WFH till the office is ready, from then also hybrid)

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First and foremost, you: *

• Solve and code often-complex, technical problems and ensure the code is performant, readable, well-structured, has automated tests, and follows our architecture, using primarily Python 3.x, Flask, SQLAlchemy, and Django.
• Find the right solution. Not taking too many shortcuts or overengineering.
• Communicate and act proactively. Help each other across team boundaries.

Overall each team is responsible for:

• The technology that powers our product.
• The quality, performance, and stability of the platform through automated testing, monitoring, solving issues and measuring product and technical metrics.
• Maintaining and evolving the architecture based on business, product, and technical requirements.
• Keeping our Continuous Integration pipeline green, launching our automated deployment to the Kubernetes cluster, and monitoring your changes in Production.
• Learning and sharing knowledge with internal TechTalks and public meetups.
• Owning our services end-to-end. As you grow in the company, you will gain familiarity with deploying and troubleshooting issues.

Examples of day-to-day tasks

• Sync with your team during a quick morning stand-up.
• Write solid, clean code that will perform the necessary operations and expose the data that needs to be shown to the users.
• Send a pull request.
• Review your teammates’ pull requests and give them feedback.
• Deploy to production and monitor how end-users are using your feature.

The type of engineers we are looking for

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• Several years of professional experience as a developer working in an agile product development environment
• Fluent in Python. Skilled in other programming languages like Ruby, Java, C#, Go, Javascript is cool, but not necessary
• Understands relational databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Able to translate requirements into well-designed technical solutions and effective communication skills
• Living in the Netherlands/EU region

If you, after reading this, you are excited to join Tiqets, please apply now!

Job Type: Full-time