Job Opportunities API

Looking for a new adventure? You’ve come to the right place. We're an Amsterdam-based team of 90+ (and counting) with 25+ nationalities amongst us! A varied bunch of “Citizens of The World” with a wide range of skills and hundreds of thousands of kilometers under our travel belts. And we have something important in common (other than our very well-worn passports): We want to change the way people travel. And that's exactly what we're doing, with the travel app to plan, track, and relive trips in a smart and beautiful way. Polarsteps has over 20 million users already, but, for us, this is just the beginning. We have big plans for the future, and so we need even more talented and enthusiastic people to help us on our journey. Want to know more about us? Here https://careers.polarsteps.com/ you go. YOUR EXPEDITION: BACKEND TEAM LEAD AT POLARSTEPS If you haven't seen our app yet, go ahead and check it out; you'll see that we care (a lot) about providing a seamless, top-quality user experience for every one of our travelers. And it is this that has got us ratings of 4.8 and 4.7 on the app stores (where we’ve been featured multiple times). But it doesn’t stop there, not only did Google create this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYcBqtOwLcg awesome video about us, but we’ve been mentioned in two of Apple’s WWDC keynote speeches! We’ve got an impressive past, but we’re even more excited for the future, and the impact you can make from day one is huge, with everything you ship affecting more than 19 million users. Even with that in mind, we believe in truly giving our team members the freedom they need to craft to perfection while encouraging a practical mindset to avoid under- or over-engineering mishaps. We are seeing enthusiastic and accelerated growth of the travel industry, and with that comes both opportunities and growing pains (especially in the complex, multi-layered travel domain). So, if you enjoy thinking about the user experience, performance, and scalability aspects of a platform on top of the challenges inherent to feature development, you're in for a lot of fun with us. YOUR ITINERARY What your journey at Polarsteps will look like day-to-day. You will: - Act as a true people manager for your team - owning career development, performance conversations, and creating an environment where engineers grow, feel supported, and do their best work. - Be accountable for team health and performance: delivery, quality, incident response, knowledge sharing, and sustainable on-call practices. - On top of your people leadership responsibilities, carry out duties as an individual contributor such as: - Collaborating with Product Development teams, PMs, designers, and other engineers to enhance Polarsteps' features and functionalities. - Leading technical projects that improve scalability, reliability, and performance. - Developing and maintaining our main API and related services, ensuring seamless support for web and mobile applications used by travelers globally. - Maintaining an efficient development process, including timely code reviews, streamlined meetings, and effective asynchronous communication. - Partnering with stakeholders to prioritize tasks, align with quarterly and yearly OKRs and enhance the overall developer experience. - Scale and evolve our infrastructure to handle continued growth (we have millions of active users), with reliability, performance, and observability top of mind. - Raise the technical bar through hands-on code reviews, architectural guidance, and clear standards. - Be AI-pilled, but responsibly. You are on top of and experiment with the fast-changing landscape of AI tooling, and act as an evangelist within the team - but always understanding its current limitations and ensuring its usage is properly de-risked. THE EQUIPMENT IN YOUR BACKPACK What we’re hoping you’ll bring with you. - Proven experience leading