Senior Backend Engineer

Lighthouse

Ghent, Belgium

What you will do:

We are looking for a Backend Engineer who is passionate about clean, readable and scalable code. You will be responsible for building high-performance APIs that transform terabytes of data into valuable insights that help over 100.000 hotels worldwide make well-informed decisions.

Your team works in close collaboration with our product team and a highly talented group of software engineers, DevOps engineers and project managers to drive initiatives forward.

In a fast-growing scale-up priorities might shift from time to time. You’ll gain experience and ownership in different domains depending on your ambition, but here are some general topics:

Where you will have impact:

Work on new feature developments for our existing products as well as creating new products from scratch;
Architect, code and maintain existing & new Python/Go (micro-)services;
Deploy and monitor services in a reproducible and scalable way;
Develop a high affinity with our various, often complex, datasets by crunching large amounts of data on the fly in API implementations and data processing jobs;
Experiment with, think about and take ownership of a piece of our codebase/infrastructure and find ways to improve it, both in terms of performance/efficiency and structure/best practices;
Ensure high quality deliverables through extensive testing as part of your development process;
Be part of the product scrum-teams, creating high performing and efficient APIs related to new feature developments.

Who you are:

Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field;
5+ years of professional experience in a similar position;
Experience writing Python and/or Go;
Experience with microservice architectures and any cloud platform (we work with GCP);
A passion for efficiency and performance optimizations, preferably in the field of data processing and algorithm design;
Affinity with challenging status-quo of overall API design and architecture;
Proven experience dealing with large datasets in a NoSQL environment;
Fluent in English.