HotelTonight
makes it remarkably easy to book great hotels at amazing last-minute
rates on your mobile device, for tonight, tomorrow and next week. Our
mission is to make people feel more alive by delivering the unexpected
and we're looking for a Platform Engineer to help do just that.
At
HotelTonight, we believe that simplicity is one of the pillars of great
user experiences. To keep things simple, our customers see a max of 15
hotels at a time. Your role will be to make sure that only the best
hotels, offering great deals, are making it to the top 15.
When
you join HotelTonight, you will be working on our scoring algorithm
that ranks hotels based on real-time and historical data, user location
and behavior, price, and many other factors. You will also experiment
with different setups of the algorithm by running A/B tests to find the
sweet spot between conversion and revenue because we like to make
decisions based on data!
To accomplish this, you’ll have access to the best tooling and work with a best of class team.
Follow our Technology Blog at
BuildTonight to learn about the Engineering Team's challenges, goals and everything in between.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build
our A/B testing platform, contributing to both design and
implementation of A/B tests to improve the booking conversion funnel
- Implement new algorithm components or modify existing ones
- Maintain
the algo, help to troubleshoot issues and answer internal questions,
always keeping a critical eye out for ways to prevent issues before they
come up
- Contribute to platform evolution, support existing features, and recommend new ones and optimizations
- Participate
in code reviews, improve our software development processes, and
deliver high-quality software in a fast-paced environment
- Work
on scaling infrastructure to support massive data demands within a
constantly changing real-time marketplace servicing millions of requests
per day with 99.99% uptime
- Keep an eye on the platform and infrastructure on rotating pager duties, responding to issues promptly
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IN YOU
- 3+ years experience in software development in Ruby, working as an Engineer at a startup or mid-sized company
- Familiar with major technologies from our stack - Ruby, Rails, Rspec, MySQL
- Interest in other languages, (e.g. Go, Elixir, Scala)
- Background in statistical mathematics and/or experience with ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka / Kinesis preferred
- Dependable, hands-on problem solver
- Broad interest in technology trends and keen to learn new things
- You enjoy working as part of a team and strive for continuous improvement
- Strong English communication skills to communicate effectively with the team
WHAT YOU'LL GET FROM US
- The opportunity to define mobile commerce and change the way people book travel
- The partnership of a driven, agile team that is building something disruptive
- Camaraderie
of an amazing team that is working tirelessly to build the world's
favorite hotel app, supported by top-tier investors
- Competitive monthly salary + stock options in one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups
- Fun
stuff: Quarterly travel stipend, weekly catered lunches, unlimited
coffee and snacks, and the opportunity to spin the HT Roulette wheel to
spontaneously win airfare and a hotel stay anywhere in the world!
Additional Information: You must be an EU citizen or have documentation demonstrating your right to work in Germany.