Senior Backend Engineer

About HousingAnywhere

HousingAnywhere is Europe’s largest mid-term rental platform, covering over 125 cities across Europe and several in the US. With Kamernet and Studapart under its umbrella, HousingAnywhere empowers people to live wherever and however they choose. Through our advanced online platforms, which together attract over 30 million users annually, we connect young professionals and students directly with accommodation providers. Our team of 250 professionals is dedicated to helping tenants find comfort and peace of mind in their rental search, whether they're looking for a home across the globe or just across town.

Your Role and Impact 

As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to make a real impact on the rental housing industry while embodying our values of innovation, collaboration, customer-centricity, transparency and ownership. Business operations team is a diverse and dynamic team focused on optimising operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness across the sales, customer care, finance and marketing departments. Streamline internal processes, leverage technology for automation, and improve group productivity to reduce the cost associated with our operations. The team also has a mission to support the payments experience for a smooth and trustworthy financial platform. Business operations team consists of eleven members, including an engineering manager, a product manager, a UX designer , frontend engineers and backend engineers. 

• You understand that your day-to-day job will involve developing and maintaining features using Go programming language
• Collaborates with the product teams to build solutions that are scalable, observable, and reusable 
• You are expected to draft the technical specifications for the projects you are responsible for and own the end-to-end delivery of the same.
• provides guidance and support to the team members, mentor them, and ensure that the software they produce meets the technical standards and requirements of the project. 

Your profile:

• Over 5 years of software development experience building distributed systems
• Background focused in backend engineering
• More than 2 years of Experience in Go
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL) is a great strength
• You have experience in designing and building simple Restful API used by many different teams/developers
• Experience with GRPC, Protobuf is a strong advantage
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes is a strong advantage 
• Experience with DDD, Event-Driven architecture is a strong advantage 
• You have built simple distributed systems in the past and are willing to solve complex distributed problems.
• Interested in new technologies and you continuously seek to improve yourself and others.

What’s in it for you

• Diverse international community (46+ nationalities).
• Hybrid working policy with 2 days working from office.
• Unlimited paid holidays, minimum-based not maximum.
• 1,000 EUR personal development budget.
• Complete coverage for commuting.
• 30% ruling application assistance.
• Personal equipment, including laptop and ergonomic setup.
• Gym membership discount with GoVital or OneFit.
• Variable pension scheme.
• Dutch/English classes budget.
• Fun team-building and after-work drinks every Friday.

Our mission

Rent Easy, Live Free.

Our Values

• Ownership
• We are Enablers
• We are Changemakers
• We are Connectors

If you have further questions, please email [email protected] 

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