Senior Backend Engineer

At Lighthouse, we’re on a mission to disrupt commercial strategy for the hospitality industry. Our innovative commercial platform takes the complexity out of data, empowering businesses with actionable insights, advanced pricing tools, and cutting-edge business intelligence to unlock their full revenue potential.

Backed by $370 million in series C funding and driven by an unwavering passion for growth, we’ve welcomed five companies into our journey and have surpassed $100 million in ARR in 2024. Our 700+ teammates span 35 countries and represent 34 nationalities.

At Lighthouse, we’re more than just a workplace – we’re a community. Collaborative, fun, and deeply committed, we work hard together to revolutionize the hospitality sector. Are you ready to join us and shine brighter in the industry’s most exciting rocket-ship? 🚀

What you will do:

We are looking for a Backend Engineer who is passionate about clean, readable and scalable code. You will be responsible for building high-performance APIs that transform terabytes of data into valuable insights that help over 100.000 hotels worldwide make well-informed decisions. 
Your team works in close collaboration with our product team and a highly talented group of software engineers, DevOps engineers and project managers to drive initiatives forward. 
In a fast-growing scale-up priorities might shift from time to time. You’ll gain experience and ownership in different domains depending on your ambition, but here are some general topics:

Where you will have impact:

• Work on new feature developments for our existing products as well as creating new products from scratch.
• Architect, code and maintain existing & new Python/Go (micro-)services.
• Deploy and monitor services in a reproducible and scalable way.
• Develop a high affinity with our various, often complex, datasets by crunching large amounts of data on the fly in API implementations and data processing jobs.
• Experiment with, think about and take ownership of a piece of our codebase/infrastructure and find ways to improve it, both in terms of performance/efficiency and structure/best practices.
• Ensure high quality deliverables through extensive testing as part of your development process.
• Be part of the product scrum-teams, creating high performing and efficient APIs related to new feature developments.

About our team:

The team scales and manages services around the largest set of hotel’s metadata within the hospitality industry. They’ll design, implement and integrate the landscape required to support our business critical processes and flows. You’ll architect core abstractions (e.g. data and business modelling), backend components and a service landscape that enables other engineering teams to do their best work possible. Your future stakeholders are other engineers and power users on the business side.

You’ll be part of a highly skilled engineering team with hubs in Ghent and Madrid. We want to give you the best tools, equipment and atmosphere to work from wherever you want.

Who you are:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field
• 5+ years of professional experience in a similar position
• Experience writing Python and/or Go
• Experience with microservice architectures and any cloud platform (we work with GCP)
• A passion for efficiency and performance optimizations, preferably in the field of data processing and algorithm design
• Affinity with challenging status-quo of overall API design and architecture
• Proven experience dealing with large datasets in a NoSQL environment
• Fluent in English

Technologies you’ll work with:

Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Istio, Python, Django, Go, Bigtable, FoundationDB, Spanner
(feel free to ask us why these are the best fit for us)

What's in it for you:

• Flexible working environment: Work from home or at one of our global offices.
• Flexible time off: Autonomy to manage your work-life balance.
• Cobee benefits: 160€/month for food, transportation, or nursery.
• Language learning: 40€/month on Preply.
• Comprehensive health insurance: 100% Alan coverage for you, your spouse, and dependents.
• Collaborative team: High-bar, friendly, creative, and passionate colleagues.
• Career development: Workshops, frameworks, tools, training, and processes to realize your full potential.
• Impactful work: Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide.
• Competitive compensation: Proactively maintained to value your work.
• Referral bonuses: Earn rewards for bringing in new talent.

We welcome:

• Fluency in SQL
• Knowledge of the Django framework
• Experience in working in a cross-functional team to develop and deliver new product features

Thank you for considering a career with Lighthouse. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace that values equal opportunity for all. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and disability. Our commitment to equality is not just a policy; it's part of our culture.

If you share our passion for innovation and teamwork, we invite you to join us in shaping the future of the hospitality industry. At Lighthouse, our guiding light is to be an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage individuals from all walks of life to apply.

We value the unique perspective and talents that you bring, and we're excited to see how your light can shine within our team. We can't wait to meet you and explore how we can grow and succeed together, illuminating the path towards a brighter future for the industry.