Senior Backend Engineer - Travel Tech Platform

About the Role

We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team at Indie Campers. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in transforming the road trip experience through our innovative campervan marketplace. This position is based in Lisbon, Portugal, and offers a hybrid work environment, allowing you to collaborate with a diverse team while also enjoying flexibility.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and optimize the architecture that underpins our platform, ensuring it is scalable and reliable.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of high-quality backend services, adhering to strong coding standards and best practices.
• Lead the evolution of Indie Campers' backend architecture as we transition to a new stack.
• Take ownership of backend features across the full development lifecycle, from technical design through implementation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Participate in architecture and code reviews, contributing to technical decisions and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with front-end engineers to ensure seamless integration between backend services and customer-facing applications.
• Identify and resolve performance issues, reliability risks, and scalability bottlenecks to maintain system stability and uptime.
• Stay updated with backend technologies, frameworks, and industry trends, applying them to real-world problems.
• Write and maintain clear technical documentation to support knowledge sharing and long-term maintainability of the system.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in backend development, with at least 4 years in senior or staff-level engineering roles.
• Proven experience architecting and scaling distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Extensive expertise with backend technologies including Java, Go, Python, Rust, Ruby, or Node.js (experience with TypeScript is a bonus).
• Strong understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microservices, CQRS, and event-driven systems.
• Experience working with message brokers such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, and AWS SNS/SQS.
• Expertise with databases such as Postgres and Redis, including optimization and fine-tuning.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, and a solid understanding of DevOps practices including Docker, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to guide technical decisions and mentor engineers across multiple teams.
• Fluent communication skills in English and/or Portuguese, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Experience with TypeScript.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
• Previous experience in the travel or tech industry.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and a yearly €500 travel voucher.
• Extra vacation day for your birthday and a company holiday on our birthday.
• Bi-annual performance reviews and tailored growth opportunities.
• An international environment with colleagues from over 54 nationalities.
• Frequent team events, both in-person and virtual.
• Support for your professional development with a yearly €1000 training voucher.
• Relocation bonus for candidates who aren't based in Lisbon.

Join us as a Senior Backend Engineer and help us shape the future of road trips!