## About the job\nWe are Europe’s largest airlines’ innovation unit and work on a variety of innovative projects from new ways of booking flights to the future of climate-neutral flying.\n\nAs a senior developer, you are someone who can see projects through from beginning to end, coach others, and self-manage. We’re looking for an eager person who can bring our team to the next level with their technical knowledge, people skills, and real-world experience. \n\nOn the technical side, extensive experience building high-traffic websites using Ruby and Ruby on Rails is a hard requirement. Experience with DevOps (AWS services, Terraform) is a plus but not required.\n\n## The Stack\n* Ruby on Rails backend & we're experimenting with Sorbet\n* Open API Specs for contract testing\n* Postgres\n* Terraform\n* Bonus: Amazon Web Services (RDS, ECS, Lambda, Cloudwatch)\n* Bonus: TypeScript, React/Vue\n\n## How we work\n* Our biweekly sprint planning call is our only regular meeting\n* For complex features, write a design doc before coding\n* All code goes through code review, reviews are split out evenly across the team\n* A dedicated "runner" fields ad-hoc requests and bug reports each week, so that everyone else can focus\n* We use Tuple for pair programming\n\n## About you\n### Technical Skills & Experience\n\n* You've built complex apps in a Ruby on Rails + modern frontend stack before, with a codebase optimized for performance and scale\n* You've designed & shipped large applications with many components and data structures\n* You have a proven ability to design interfaces that stand the test of time, showing anticipation of future product changes\n* You have experience integrating complex third party APIs\n* You are able to successfully refactor existing code and get rid of tech debt without regressions\n\n\n### Personality\n\n* You are able to handle ambiguity, and can push projects forward even when there is not a clear best path\n* You see things through from start to finish\n* You can manage yourself but you also work well with others\n* A good sense of humor and a great team player\n* Fluent English and an excellent communicator\n\n## Compensation\nThis is a full-time position and you can work from anywhere within ±6 hours of CET. The salary range is between $90 - 120k. \n\nBe sure to mention the word **EXELLENT** when applying to show you read the job post completely. This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $90,000 — $120,000/year\n \n\n#Location\n🌏 Worldwide

Flightradar24 is looking for experienced, well-rounded C++ and Python developers. You will play an important role in building and improving our back-end systems, processing very high volumes of aviation data like flight positions each day.\n\n\n\nYour work will improve the experience of millions of daily Flightradar24 users, as well as enable our business and enterprise customers to effectively integrate our aviation data and services with their businesses.\n\n\n\n**What you’ll do**\n\n\n\n* Develop our back-end systems using modern C++ and Python on a Linux platform, using open source tools like RabbitMQ, Redis, and MySQL, as well as cloud services\n\n* Improve our flight tracking coverage with semi-embedded C++ development for our global network of Raspberry Pi-based ADS-B receivers (approximately 20,000 devices)\n\n* Design and implement big data streaming, ingestion, and event processing using both cloud and on-premise SQL and NoSQL systems\n\n* Expand our flight event detection logic and find new ways to use our data\n\n* Improve robustness of our systems using cloud infrastructure like AWS and Azure, and tools like Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes\n\n* Apply analytic and algorithmic skills to solve software design and aviation tracking challenges\n\n\n\n**Who you are**\n\n\n\n* Experienced software engineer with at least 4 years of professional development, ideally in online/web services environments and with similar tech stacks\n\n* Experience with modern C++ '11-'20, STL and Boost, Python 3, as well as an understanding of data structures, algorithms and their use cases and efficiency\n\n* Passionate about development best practices and quality efforts, such as test-driven development, unit testing, code reviews, continuous integration, etc.\n\n* You know how to design simple, performant, testable, and maintainable software\n\n* You love what you do and are passionate about code and technology\n\n* You have a university degree in computer science or similar\n\n* You have strong written and spoken English – Swedish is not needed for this role\n\n* If you have experience with aviation data standards including ADS-B, that’s a big plus\n\n* *Note that this is a fully remote position, but we would like you be located within a 3-hour time difference from Sweden's timezone (CET/CEST) to align your working hours with the rest of the team.*\n\n\n\n**About Flightradar24**\n\n\n\nWith over 2 million daily users, Flightradar24 is the world’s most popular flight tracking service and our apps regularly top the App Store and Google Play charts. We also offer a wide range of commercial services and customers include many of the largest names in aviation. \n\n\n\nWe're constantly adding new services and improving existing products. To help us meet those challenges, we're looking for creative, collaborative and tech-savvy applicants to join us. \n\nBe sure to mention the words **RIDGE FISH FORK** when applying to show you read the job post completely. This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on previous jobs related to Python, Backend and Aviation jobs that are similar:\n\n $80,000 — $120,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nCET +– 3 Hours