Scala Engineer for Travel Tech Platform

Nezasa is one of the most innovative start-ups in travel technology. Our SaaS solution empowers travel brands globally to combine all planning and booking related actions into one seamless end-to-end experience.

We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our team in Lisbon.

Our multinational team is distributed yet collaborative, based around offices in the hearts of Zurich, Switzerland and Lisbon, Portugal. We pride ourselves on being a close-knitted group of highly motivated, diverse and fun-loving professionals that are passionate about working on a game-changing product together. Your success is our success, that is why we love to see you grow and put our focus on empowering everyone to reach their fullest potential. As a part of Nezasa you will be immersed in a start-up vibe with lean processes and flat hierarchies.

Join us to improve and extend our leading, cloud-based planning and booking platform and revolutionize the travel industry together with us!

We offer...

• The opportunity to actively shape a product that will change travel technology
• The possibility to work with a modern tech stack, to learn from world-class engineers and to grow with the team
• A hybrid work model with a mix of home-office and office days
• A modern office in the heart of Lisbon for your office days
• Great perks: Apple (or Linux) notebook, flexible working hours, health insurance for you and your family, travel booking at reduced rates via our platform, public transport pass, learning & development program, conference visits, free coffee & snacks and more

Our techies...

As one of our techies you will be embedded in one of Nezasa’s cross-functional and agile engineering teams (squads) that run on a 2-week sprint schedule. To drive the development of our web application forward we believe in choosing the best possible technology stack, that is why we work with a myriad of modern technologies. Our goal is for you to have all the tools you need to focus on creating and implementing features that enhance our platform. Code quality, system reliability, maintainability and scalability are key drivers for our engineers and they are fired up by the complexities of the platform. As we strive to give the best to our customers, our engineers challenge the status quo to develop outstanding solutions.

Our tech stack…

• Scala
• Ember (yes we know...we are looking at React in the long-run)
• MongoDB
• Github
• Terraform
• Jenkins
• AWS
• Atlassian (Jira/Confluence)
• GSuite
• Slack
• and many more...

As a Backend Software Engineer at Nezasa you will…

• Work in an agile environment with your product team to advance our industry-leading TripBuilder platform
• Add more exciting features and improve the scalability and modularity of the product
• Carry out maintenance and bug fixes such that our customers have the best product experience
• Work with Ember.js, Scala, Play!, Akka, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and an infrastructure running on AWS

You have…

• Experience in Scala; or deep Java/.NET expertise and a strong desire to learn Scala
• Excellent knowledge of object-oriented programming
• Good understanding of all relevant web technologies (JSON, REST, AJAX, HTTP)
• Passion for clean, high quality, maintainable and performant code
• A curious nature and a desire to stay up to date with the newest programming practices
• Excellent communication skills in English
• Experience with NoSQL databases is a plus

Sounds like your thing? Apply now to revolutionize the travel industry together with us!