Senior Back-End Java Engineer (gn) @ B2B Traveltech SaaS, Berlin

This is an Atlantic Labs portfolio venture. Find out more about us and other opportunities in the portfolio here.

About the Venture

Smart Host is a B2B SaaS platform in the hospitality industry. We empower hotels to put their own data to work. We collect, clean and enrich guest data from both internal and external data sources. All of this combined with data analysis takes guest communication and marketing efforts to a new level. Our typical clients are not necessarily tech savvy, so it’s on us to skyrocket them into the digital marketing age, by simplifying the experience to the maximum through great usability.

We are an early stage company run by experienced entrepreneurs – this is your chance to shape our product. We believe in user research, data driven product development and simple UIs allowing complex interactions. If you do too, we are a match. As senior Back-end engineer you’ll be part of an amazing team responsible for our hospitality software solution.

About the Role

• Developing a webapp back-end with non-trivial business logic
• Being responsible for your code and the cloud infrastructure it runs on
• Making sure that the software scales together with the growing user base
• Working together with Front-end Engineers and provide required APIs
• Fighting emerging complexity in the code by rethinking things from the beginning

About You

• You are proficient in Java and keep track of its development up to Java 16
• You have experience with Kubernetes
• You are familiar with some of the following technologies: Gradle, Spring, JPA, Skaffold, Helm, Terraform, Apache Kafka, Go, Scripting (Shell, Python)
• You understand the fundamentals of networking, operating systems and distributed computing.
• DevOps experience in cloud environments is a plus
• You care about code quality and refactor where it is required
• You dig deep to find the root cause of any problem before shifting responsibility
• You constantly extend and share your professional knowledge