Senior Back end Developer

Senior backend developer – Eurail.com – Utrecht – 32-40h

Calling all senior backend developers with a passion for train travel! If you love well maintained code and collaborate environments where you can innovate, read on.

 We are on the search for a dedicated backend developer with creative ideas that will help to realise our best business ideas and serve travellers in the greatest way possible.

If that’s not exciting enough, you will also be working with us to set up a dream in-house development team. Come and help us to revolutionise the digital travel experience.

Organisation

We are an international e-commerce scale-up in the travel industry, founded in 2006 and leading in our market. We help travellers from all over the world to have an unforgettable experience in Europe by train.

As a scale-up, Eurail.com offers you the best of both worlds. We offer you the atmosphere and freedom of a start-up, combined with the professionality and resources of an established company.

We are a fully e-commerce company and have many IT systems including our CMS and Commerce platforms, as well as payment, fulfilment, and translation solutions. Our objective is to have a fully micro-service based infrastructure.

 Job description and role

This is a hands-on role that requires both strategic thinking and execution, and will take our digital experiences to a new level of excellence. You will ensure the readiness of our backend related projects and initiatives.

Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic and the definition and maintenance of our code. You will ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end, taking into account scalability and peak traffic. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your colleagues into the application so a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary.

You and your new team will build, maintain and support our existing sites throughout the product lifecycle, including implementing functional enhancements and resolving issues. Your playground will consist of an AWS environment (elastic compute cloud and lambda) with Adobe Experience Manager as the CMS and Commercetools as the e-commerce engine.

You will join forces with our IT team and will work closely with suppliers, product owners, a QA team, IT ecommerce specialist, solution architect and front-end developers following an Agile/Scrum methodology. Next to that you will get the chance to work alongside other IT, Marketing and Ecommerce experts in cross-functional teams.

Boxes to tick

You are the Senior Backend Developer we are looking for if you have the following characteristics:

• Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science or a related field and at least 4 years of experience building e-commerce tooling with demonstrated success
• Familiar with, or happy to learn how to use our main back-end system Commercetools and our other back-end systems
• In-depth and hands-on experience with web technologies including XHTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, JavaScript/JQuery, AJAX, XML, JSON, REST based APIs and other relevant technologies
• Strong experience using SDKs for Python, NodeJS and Java
• Comfortable developing (relational) databases such as MS SQL and/or MySQL
• Experience working with Source Code Management Tools, OTAP environments and tools such as Jira/Redmine, Confluence and Jenkins
• Good understanding of accessibility, security compliance and the OWASP security principles
• Proven experience working Agile/Scrum
• Driven and focussed on achieving successful results you can be proud of

Why work for Eurail.com?

• A positive environment with helpful colleagues.
• Maximum freedom in your work with a professional outlook.
• An attractive salary and benefits.
• An annual training budget of €5,000 to be used for your own personal and professional development.
• A healthy work/life balance, including flexible working.
• A young, growing and informal organisation.
• The opportunity to make a concrete and directly visible contribution to the development of a young company.
• An international working environment.
• A 32- to 40-hour work week.
• Enthusiastic, passionate about the product, the job, the company, train travel, internet.
• Helpful, towards customers, the Eurail Group, the railways, and each other.
• Knowledgeable, we strive to be experts about the train products and e-commerce.
• Dedicated, we work hard and are committed to represent the brands responsibly, in all levels of our organisation.
• Proactive, we are full of energy to act on the fast changes in the world surrounding us.

Your development is important to us

Personal development is very important to us. For that reason, we invest in all our employees. With your very own education budget you can develop your personal and professional experience. You can follow a training course over a short or longer period, with a coach or through a peer support program.

We encourage you to think beyond your own position. As an employee of Eurail.com you will take part in cross functional team projects.

Do you have more questions?

You can send questions about this vacancy to [email protected]. We will respond to you as soon as possible.