Backend Engineer

🕒 July 21

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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bookingkit

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

✈️ Travel

🏨 Hospitality

💰 Venture Round - bookingkit on 2023-06

Consulting • Travel • Hospitality

bookingkit is a Berlin-based company that builds software to digitize and manage bookings for tours, activities and attractions across Europe. The company provides a SaaS platform aimed at helping operators streamline reservations, partnerships and customer experience, while supporting growth through integrations and marketplace-like partnerships. bookingkit emphasizes a collaborative, growth-oriented work culture and serves other businesses in the travel and leisure sector.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical design and implementation of new partner integrations • Own the full service lifecycle, including development, deployment, monitoring, alerting, and incident response • Manage AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform Infrastructure as Code • Create and maintain technical documentation for internal teams and external partners • Use AI agents and tools to automate infrastructure, log analysis, and performance monitoring • Optimize system performance and ensure high availability of integration services • Evolve the integration strategy with a platform-first approach • Ensure secure, high-performance communication between internal and external systems • Provide technical support for the connectivity layer • Own end-to-end delivery and business impact of integrations and platform features

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, focused on backend development • Deep understanding of RESTful API design, HTTP, authentication/OAuth, and webhook management • Understanding of GraphQL concepts • Proven experience with AWS, including ECS, Lambda, and RDS • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform • Strong experience setting up and maintaining monitoring and alerting solutions such as New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog • Ability to translate complex system designs into clear, actionable technical documentation • Solid experience with modern backend languages such as PHP/Laravel and Node.js/TypeScript • Expertise in database design using MySQL and NoSQL, including query optimization for large-scale data • Proficiency integrating and leveraging AI-assisted programming and agents in daily workflow • Fluency in English • Experience with containerization using Docker

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work setup, with the option to join colleagues in the Berlin office • Mobile Work Abroad policy: work from almost anywhere in the world for up to 5 months in the year • 28 vacation days per year, increasing by one day each anniversary up to 31 days • More than 50% public transportation cost coverage in Germany • Subsidized Urban Sports Club memberships (more than 40%) in Germany • 100% Wellhub membership subsidy in Germany • Up to €156 annual private travel subsidy • Corporate discounts through partners such as GetYourGuide • Flat communication culture with open communication and accessibility between teams and leads • Regular BBQs in Berlin, summer and winter events, and reunions with former employees • Airport/Train Office Day for working during travel when unable to take calls • Extra day of leave for charity work • 10 days of paid leave for child sickness