Software Developer/ Engineer/ Architect

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

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 a Senior Backend Engineer to influence and motivate our high-performing applications team, responsible for the development of core products that are key to the attendee experience. 

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 and abilities we’re looking for:

  • 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 Ruby, but open to JVM, Kotlin, and Python, to name a few.
  • 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.