Senior Software Engineer | Scala, Clojure in Amsterdam

Are you passionate about software development? Do you believe in making a difference? We have a challenging role within our highly skilled team!

Otravo stands for Online Travel Organization and is market leader in the Benelux and Scandinavia of (online) air travel sales. Otravo is the parent company of several well-known travel brands like Vliegtickets.nl, Vliegtickets.be, WTC.nl, Schipholtickets.nl, Flygstolen, Tripmonster and De Vakantiediscounter. Every day over a 100.000 visitors are welcomed to our websites and since 1983 millions of people have traveled through our brands.

What are you going to do?

Because we build all our systems in-house with our own integrated development teams, we could really use your knowledge and skills, helping us leverage technologies such as

• Apache Spark, for distributed data processing
• Clojure and ClojureScript/React.js, for powering our website
• Scala, Akka, and Play for a scalable stateless REST back-end
• Kafka and Solr, for our data management platform
• A/B experiments, for sensible decision making

You will be pairing to write lots of (clean) code that goes to production continuously and will be spending ± 10% on private projects to find the next big thing

Skills And Qualifications

You are a seasoned software developer (5+ years) and have solid experience with one of the technologies we use. You know functional programming and have a passion for learning and sharing your knowledge.

We consider it a plus if you have experience with:

• Big Data, Spark, Solr/ElasticSearch
• Cats / Scalaz / Shapeless functional programming libraries
• React, Play framework
• AWS, Docker or OpenStack
  

What do we offer?

• We are small company with good financial backgrounds which means you will get stability as in big corporations but flexibility, short decision making and degree of freedom typical to the lean startups
• Your thoughts and experience will shape our platform as our teams are leading in making technical decisions
• Every second Friday you are allowed to work on your private project or learn the technology you want – and guess what we will pay for that day too! The only one thing you should do is present to others from time to time what you have done
• A friendly atmosphere with committed people and place which supports exchange of ideas
• A learning place so you will choose trainings and gatherings you want to attend plus you may use of accounts in video trainings and buy books you want to read and improve your skills
• 24 paid holidays and 6 ATV days
• Discount on your holiday trips
• Support with relocation (visa, housing, 30% tax ruling)