Backend Engineer

• Collaborate with Product Development teams, PMs, designers, and other engineers to enhance Polarsteps' features and functionalities.
• Lead technical projects that improve scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Develop and maintain our main API and related services, ensuring seamless support for web and mobile applications used by travelers globally.
• Maintain an efficient development process, including timely code reviews, streamlined meetings, and effective asynchronous communication.
• Partner with stakeholders to prioritize tasks, align with quarterly and yearly OKRs and enhance the overall developer experience with the guidance of the Tech Lead and fellow backend engineers.

6+ years of experience developing complex backend systems for web platforms, proficiency in Python

Strong background in relational databases (we use PostgreSQL) and messaging queues (e.g., Celery, RabbitMQ)

You build leverage through AI-assisted engineering, and at the right level: not blind trust, but confident delegation for accelerating your output.

Experience using one of the cloud service providers (AWS, Google, Azure)

Have built and scaled applications processing thousands of requests per second

Solid understanding of observability and monitoring practices

Solid understanding of the web stack

Pragmatic problem-solving approach, balancing quick solutions with structural changes when necessary.

Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken.

Bonus points for:

• Proficiency in FastAPI.
• Having worked in a consumer-facing product.
• Being product-minded.

Polarsteps is helping millions of travelers across the globe to plan, track and relive their travels in a smart and beautiful way.

Crafted by a team of avid explorers with a passion for clever technology and design, our all-in-one travel app features a travel planner, a personalized digital map and, at the end of it all, can be used to turn memories into a hold-in-your-hand Travel Book.

Launched in 2015 and headquartered in Amsterdam, our fast-growing team is on a journey with a clear destination - to inspire and connect people through travel.