Senior Backend Developer

About Eurail.com

Eurail.com is an international e-commerce scale-up in the travel industry, founded in 2006 and leading in the market. Eurail.com helps travelers 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. Eurail.com is an e-commerce company and have many IT systems including our CMS and Commerce platforms, as well as payment, fulfillment, and translation solutions.

Position

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.

Your qualification

• 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

Will be a plus

• 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
• Proven experience working Agile/Scrum
• Driven and focused on achieving successful results you can be proud of

What we offer

• A positive environment with helpful colleagues
• Maximum freedom in your work with a professional outlook
• 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 organization
• 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

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