Digitising the conference sector!
About the team:
Web Summit Engineering consists of several cross-functional teams, working on tools and systems that help our attendees maximise their conference experience.
We’re looking for Senior Backend Engineers to influence and motivate our high-performing applications team, responsible for the development of core products that are key to the attendee experience, including registration, ticketing, tracking, logistics, recommendation systems, Mobile, web and infrastructure.
What you’ll achieve at Web Summit:
- You’ll influence the architecture and development direction of the Applications/Product teams to ensure quality code is written and excellent products are built.
- You’ll work across the software stack to deliver high-quality, maintainable and scalable code that can power the best conferences in the world.
- You’ll share knowledge with other team members via mentoring, code reviews, technical talks, or consulting on projects.
- You’ll break down complex projects into smaller problems and work with others to ensure that great products get delivered as a result.
- You'll get insight into senior internal stakeholders, and have an active input into how Web Summit grows globally from a technology angle.
Skills we like to see:
- Ability to understand large, complex Distributed Systems with many moving, interrelated parts.
- 5+ years of commercial experience in an OOP language. We use a services architecture, with existing RESTful Apis in Rails, but open to Go, Kotlin, Python, Rust, etc.
- Linux and Postgres experience ideal.
- Strong SDLC principles, TDD and CI/CD understanding.
- Good understanding of AWS.
- DevOps experience is a big plus
- Comfortable working in Scrum/Kanban environment, with Git Pull/code reviews.
Data source
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