Public summary
A travel technology company is seeking a Junior Backend Engineer to join their development team. The role involves building and extending platform services and booking systems, designing APIs, and improving existing platforms used by tens of thousands of users. Flexible working hours, remote work options, and comprehensive career development opportunities are offered. Ideal candidates have experience in PHP, API development, SQL, and Agile environments, with fluency in English; German language skills are a plus.
Location and work setup
- Location
- Berlin
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- German requirement signal
- No German Required Detected
- Detected job language
- English
Responsibilities
Build and extend platform services and booking systems; design, develop, and maintain a transactional API platform used internally and by third parties; use AI tools to enhance development; participate in code reviews and pair programming; improve the existing platform codebase; address bugs and performance issues.
Qualifications
Experience with building web applications and distributed services; knowledge of PHP, OOP, relational databases, and data modeling; proficiency in SQL; experience with AI agents such as Claude or Codex; familiarity with Linux/macOS command line; message queues and Elasticsearch experience is a plus; strong communication skills in English; experience working in Agile environments; German language skills are advantageous but not required.