\nAbout Smoobu\n\nSmoobu (www.smoobu.com), a subsidiary of HomeToGo Group, is a fast-growing startup in the vacation rental industry. Smoobu’s SaaS solution currently empowers private hosts to manage over 100,000 properties across more than 110 countries. Smoobu's top priority is to assist its hosts in efficiently managing and growing their businesses simultaneously.\n\nSmoobu’s team is the secret to our success. We are a dynamic, ambitious and international team that is motivated to exceed our customers’ expectations through expert advice and action. We are actively hiring candidates from all around the world, including sponsoring visas for Germany. An amazing journey of opportunity with an international team lies ahead - join us!\n\n \n\nYour future contribution:\n\nYour primary role is to address the pressing business need for rapid team scaling, legacy structure refactoring, along with further development of processes and features. You will play a pivotal role in elevating our technical capabilities, ensuring that we scale our SaaS product efficiently, and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.\n\nHow you’ll add value:\n\n\n* Work in direct collaboration with, and be part of our Senior Leadership to define and execute the technical strategies, that align with the company's vision and product roadmap\n\n* Optimize development and delivery processes, driving continuous improvement in technology delivery standards\n\n* Lead recruiting and team building efforts, attracting top-tier engineers and fostering a motivated team environment to ensure retention\n\n* Provide mentorship, support and technical leadership to the engineering teams\n\n* Ensure projects are proficiently executed from architecture to delivery\n\n* Provide strategic leadership, promoting best practices in software development and architecture and staying current with industry trends and emerging technologies.\n\n\n\n\n \n\nYou’ll be successful in this role if you:\n\n\n* Have a solid software engineering background with minimum of 3 years of experience in a leadership role (Head of Engineering or similar)\n\n* Possess SaaS industry experience\n\n* Have exposure to Cloud technologies, are familiar with PHP and JavaScript frameworks\n\n* Are willing and able to mentor the engineering team members\n\n* Thrive in a fast-moving startup/scaleup environment, have experience scaling teams\n\n\n\n\n \n\nWhat Smoobu offers:\n\n\nCareer growth opportunities and promotions, 360° feedback and open feedback culture, mentoring opportunities from an international team of passionate, industry experts.\n\nCulture driven by our Leadership Principles: entrepreneurial, results-driven, encouraging ownership and enabling each other to succeed. Transparency about company goals, collaboration and support from an international team.\n\nCaring for the environment (proud to be a certified ClimatePartner and a part of the Leader for Climate Action community) as well as our employees (work-life balance, weekly yoga classes, personal training discounts, mentoring program and psychological support).\n\nAttractive benefits package, including competitive compensation, visa sponsorship and relocation support. Additional benefits include language courses, full IT support and equipment, internal workshops and trainings, company and team events, modern and centrally-located office, additional holidays, Travel Industry Card.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to SaaS, JavaScript, Cloud, PHP and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nBerlin, Berlin, Germany

**We are hiring a tech lead for our Shop team.** You will be an expert in building fullstack products and lead technical decisions for products ensuring we build a beautifully engineered product that people love. You are great at making decisions around architecture, scalability and product. You love to help your whole team deliver quality code and create a caring collaborative environment that gives all the engineers around you the tools they need to become excellent software developers.\n\n### TL;DR\n* MicroFront Ends, A/B testing, Management of Rewrite Project, Data Driven decision making\n* PHP 7, React, Typescript, REST or GraphQL, MySQL, AWS, Docker, Terraform, GitLab\n* Remote First, collaborative customer focused team that deploy code everyday\n* € 80- 90k per year (depending on location and experience)\n\nAt the end of the day we want to ensure we build the best e-commerce solution in the photography market. The GotPhoto SaaS platform helps school photographers streamline their workflow and ensure that they can easily manage large photo shoots and print amazing products their customers want. GotPhoto is a profitable startup that has been around since 2010. Our culture is one of a positive business model, with the mindset “we create winners”. Photographers, parents, schools and labs are better off when using our software. \n\n*Your primary goal is making an amazing product through making better technical decisions.*You will be key in developing and implementing great modern engineering practices with the team, delivering well-written, tested and factored code, shipping to production at high frequency.\n\n### You can expect to do things like\n* Take requirements from product managers and make sure they are easy to implement.\n* Help the teams make design decisions that enable good software architecture, limit technical debt and allow fast feature delivery.\n* Manage the commitments and delivery of the team, communicate details about delivery with management and the product manager. You protect against scope creep and timeline slippage.\n* Rewrite project lifting shop PHO codebase into new JS stack\n* Collaborate with other teams and tech leads to define department wide tech guidelines and standards. \n* Data driven decision making (iterate with A/B Tests)\n* Making sure that we release quality\n* Making sure that code quality of the staff is up to scratch\n* Taking a long term view on code maintainability\n* Cultivate a learning environment, coaching team members on how to develop excellent software.\n\n\n### Our stack\n\nWe take a pragmatic approach to building products and systems that work for our customers. Our core application is a modular CakePHP monolith - not as monolithic as you may have seen before. As we have scaled in terms of features and functionality we have built microservices in PHP, NodeJS, Python and React.\n\nWe use AWS-Cloud using MySQL, Docker, SQS, SNS, SES, PhpUnit, NewRelic, Graylog. QA has a Cypress Stack for end-to-end testing. In the Platform team we make use of Amazon Lambda for image processing to keep the scale very flexible. Payments are handled and abstracted by the finance team in their own distributed service. \n\nSince our business has complex use cases, we keep the cognitive load for our Devs as low as possible so they focus on solving problems rather than configuring tech. [Read more about our tech here.](https://career.gotphoto.com/the-tech-product-team/our-technology/) \n\n### Our Team\n\nWe are a team of 12 Engineers (on our way to 20 by the end of the year). Most of our team is based in Berlin but this role is a fully remote position based in Europe, ideally you are within a 2 hour time difference of Berlin because we want you to have a good balance with work and your personal life.\n\nYou will work with Product, QA, Engineers and report to our head of engineering. If you want to learn more about the team, [give our team page a read.](https://career.gotphoto.com/the-tech-product-team/) \n\nIf you enjoy going to an office then we would love to help you relocate to Berlin, just ask our recruiting team about it when you speak to them.\nWe follow Agile development and have synchronous and asynchronous communication. We love to collaborate, you will find us regularly sharing tips and tricks during our brown bag lunches, organising hackathons and pair coding to solve our most complex problems.\n\n### Benefits and Perks\n\n* Be part of an international team with an established brand in Europe and strong growth in the USA\n* Choose your own equipment: laptop & operating system\n* Flexible working hours: we have synchronous and asynchronous communication\n* Learning budget of 500€ annually and more for training, conferences and coaching\n* Continuous development: we help you to grow through structured process and feedback provided by our Head of Engineering and your peers.\n* Monthly lunch money after successfully completing the probationary period\n* We have regular team events, knowledge sharing and team holidays\n\n### About You\n\nYou are a technical expert who doesn’t want to manage people but manage technical decisions. You understand how to structure large scale code basis and can handle the refactoring and rewriting of large software systems. You can work with product managers and ensure you and your team can deliver things in a timely manner. You are great at choosing the right technologies, and thinking about bottlenecks in the software architecture (e.g. concurrency issues)\n\nYou care about the product you build, the code you write and helping the team around you grow.\n\n### About Us\n\nfotograf.de/GotPhoto is the market-leading workflow and sales solution for professional photographers in Europe and has a strong footprint in the US market. \n\nWe move the world of kindergarten and school - and nursery photography from analog to digital, making the life of our photographer clients easier and their business more successful. We are reviving an industry in which changes are long overdue.\n\nToday we have built a profitable business and, together with our international brand GotPhoto, we are one of the world’s most important players in school and kindergarten photography.\nWhy work with us? [Know more](https://www.fotograf.de/jobs/) \nCheck us out on [Glassdoor ](https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Fotografen-Online-Service-EI_IE1193675.11,36.htm) \nConnect with us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fde-gotphoto) \n\n/- We are trying our best to be an Equal Opportunity Employer -/\n\n/If you aren’t completely confident that you fit our exact criteria, please reach out anyway: we’re at least as interested in your character as in your talents!/\n \n\nPlease mention the words **FICTION LIMIT OUTER** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). This is a 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 $80,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n
\n\n#Location\nEurope

\nOUR MISSION In today’s world we experience a global shift to offline experiences over products. Following this trend, bookingkit is set to digitise and develop tours&activities industry in Europe. Our API partners include connections to top-tier providers such as Google, GetYourGuide and TripAdvisor. Due to our market position we have the possibility to set and influence industry standards and are actively engaged in committees steering this development.\n\nWe are actively looking for a new Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d) to join our team as soon as possible. You will have the chance to not only work on a SaaS system, but also shape the eCommerce experience of thousands of our customers and thus millions of consumers. Your work will have a direct impact on the future success of our product.\n\nIN A NUTSHELL\n\nLevel - \n\nOur Tech Stack - PHP (Yii1, Laravel), Golang, JavaScript (jQuery, Vue.js), MySQL, Redis, git, Gitlab, AWS , PHPUnit, Cypress. io\n\nYour future gear - Mac or Windows laptop (private use allowed)\n\nRemote option - Work from wherever you are in Germany, while enjoying quarterly team events with all bookingkids in Berlin\n\nPerks - Flexible work time, pet friendly office, breakfast, snacks & fruits 24/7, Company BBQs, Team events, Sport leagues, relocation support… and more!\n\n\nTasks\n\n\nMORE ABOUT YOUR DAY-TO-DAY\n\nYour role\n\n\n* As a Software Engineer (mainly PHP and Golang) you are reporting directly to our Head of Product.\n\n* You are part of the Engineering team at bookingkit and will be working closely together with product managers and UX designers to conceptualize and build innovative and scalable software for our customers.\n\n* You will build scalable services in Golang, as well as improve existing systems in PHP (Laravel and Yii).\n\n* Based on your experience, your knowledge in DevOps processes, AWS environments, ReactJS/VueJS or ReactNative will come in handy.\n\n\n\n\nYour mission\n\n\n* bookingkit is building the leading infrastructure for tours & activities in Europe. Thus, at our core we are a B2B2C company, driven by SaaS and APIs. You will have the chance to not only work on a SaaS system, but also the eCommerce experience of thousands of our customers and thus millions of consumers.\n\n* Our API partners include connections to top-tier providers such as Google, GetYourGuide and TripAdvisor. Due to our market position we have the possibility to set and influence industry standards and are actively engaged in committees steering this development. We are in the unique position to be the market leader for infrastructure technology and now need to develop our platform in that direction as well.\n\n* Your role is to be part of the change from a mostly monolithic PHP driven structure to a (micro-)service driven structure using state of the art technology, like Golang.\n\n* In order to succeed on that mission we are recruiting top tier engineers to support us on our path.\n\n\n\n\nYour tasks\n\n\n* Build and launch scalable, production-ready software.\n\n* Collaborate with product managers & UX designers during product exploration to give context on feasibility.\n\n* Contribute to the product, software architecture, infrastructure, tech stack, as well as the user experience.\n\n* Share your knowledge and experience with other engineers.\n\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\n\n\n* Working experience of at least 4 years.\n\n* You are experienced in Golang and PHP and frameworks like Laravel or Yii.\n\n* You have worked with RESTful APIs and have a sound understanding of MySQL.\n\n* You strive for high code quality, are no stranger to design patterns and love to write automated tests.\n\n* You are fluent in English and communicate with internal and external stakeholders on a high level.\n\n\n\n\nNICE-TO-HAVES\n\n\n* Experience with AWS/DevOps would definitely be a plus.\n\n* Knowledge of frontend technologies would also be beneficial.\n\n\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n\nWe invest in your future: We care about individualized personal and professional development. After 6 months, we provide you with a development budget of up to 1000 € plus an extra day off for training and development purposes. Frequent feedback and coaching sessions with your Team Lead help you to achieve your career goals.\n\nWe live our values: Flat hierarchies and #transparency are no empty promises! Share your ideas and #bookingkidness with us and contribute to our #growth. We #trust you to do a great job at your own pace: flexible working hours and home office prove it.\n\nWe believe in work-life-balance: You will work with the best in the industry - 70 great colleagues from +10 nations are waiting for you to join us. We love to share our knowledge in bookingkit university, but of course there is always time for fun team events- our monthly Barbecues are legendary!\n\n\n\nPlease state your earliest starting date and salary expectation when applying. We are looking forward to hearing from you! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, English, JavaScript, Laravel, PHP, API, SaaS, Golang and Ecommerce jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n