Remote Senior Backend Engineer

About RoomPriceGenie

Founded in 2017, RoomPriceGenie is dedicated to helping hoteliers around the globe achieve optimal pricing. We understand that many small hotels face challenges with digitalization, making their operations increasingly complex and often resulting in lost revenue. This is where we come in

We have developed a powerful solution that enables hotels to set the right prices in just seconds. Our state-of-the-art algorithm analyzes both internal hotel data and market trends to recommend pricing strategies that enhance revenue and improve booking rates.

With customers spanning the globe—from the USA and Canada to Iceland, South Africa, China, Slovenia, Italy, and the UK—RoomPriceGenie has made a meaningful impact in the hospitality industry, and our clients love the results.

Now, we are excited to expand our customer base and spread the word about how we can support hoteliers in optimizing their pricing strategies. We invite you to join us on this journey We actively encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds to enrich our team and drive innovation.

Your Role

As a Senior Backend Engineer in our Customer Journey team at RoomPriceGenie, you'll build the systems that power user activation, engagement and long-term success.

You'll focus primarily on backend development using Python/Django, owning features end-to-end, from design and implementation to testing and deployment. But your impact will extend beyond the backend: you'll collaborate closely across the stack, occasionally working in our React frontend and data pipelines to keep the team moving fast.

You'll operate with high autonomy, combining technical excellence with product awareness, and you'll play a key role in helping us evolve a scalable, data-informed, growth-driven product.

In this role, you'll:

• Design, build and maintain robust backend services and APIs using Python/Django.

• Take end-to-end ownership of projects, from problem discovery to deployment, monitoring, and iteration.

• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code, applying modern testing practices across unit, integration and functional layers.

• Collaborate across disciplines (Product, Data, Design, and Frontend) to deliver full, measurable outcomes.

• Occasionally contribute to the React frontend or data pipelines (Snowflake, Airflow, dbt) to unblock progress on critical projects or improve feedback loops.

• Ensure data quality, observability and performance in systems that feed our analytics and growth experiments.

• Participate in architecture reviews, technical discussions and mentoring, helping elevate our engineering standards.

• Drive continuous improvement in how we design, test, deploy and monitor our applications.

Your Profile

• Solid professional software engineering experience, with deep backend expertise.

• Experience in a high-growth or scaling company is a strong plus. You're comfortable navigating ambiguity, driving clarity and helping teams adapt as the organization evolves.

• Advanced proficiency in Python, Django.

• Strong grasp of software design principles, testing and scalable architecture.

• Practical experience with CI/CD, AWS and modern monitoring / observability tools.

• Familiarity with React and data workflows, you're comfortable reading or extending frontend components and data pipelines when needed, collaborating when needed with specialists from that field.

• A product-minded engineer who understands trade-offs, user needs, and impact-driven development.

• High ownership mentality, you see projects through from idea to measurable results.

• Excellent communication skills, fluency in English, and a collaborative mindset.

• Based in the European time zone (UTC+0 / UTC+2).

Nice to Have

• Experience with:

  • Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, dragster, cube or similar data tools.

  • Event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, Celery).

What We Offer at RoomPriceGenie

At RoomPriceGenie, we don't just offer jobs; we offer an adventure Join us in an exciting startup atmosphere where you can grow your career while changing the world for tens of thousands of independent hoteliers. Our global and diverse team is fueled by passion and a shared mission. We thrive in a culture that's all about transparency, respect, and making a real impact together.

Here's what you can expect when you become part of our Genie family:

• Remote-First Model: You can work flexibly from anywhere. At the same time, we support co-working and you're of course welcome to work from our offices in Mannheim, Berlin, or Sydney whenever you like.

• One Team, One Vision, One Goal: We're in this together Our Genies are laser-focused on our mission, collaborating to make magic happen. It's no wonder we score a stellar 9.3 from our team members

• Epic Team Gatherings: Every year, we bring our global crew together for a week of networking, brainstorming, and fun. Plus, enjoy regular hangouts in our offices to keep the camaraderie alive.

• Growth and Development: We're all about lifelong learning Level up your skills with personal and professional development opportunities. You'll even snag up to three extra days off each year to focus on your growth.

• 5 Years? 5 Weeks Stick with us, and we'll reward your loyalty. After five years, you'll earn an incredible five weeks of bonus vacation time to recharge and explore the world.

• Birthday Celebrations: It's your day, so take it off Celebrate your birthday the way you want, guilt-free.

• Flexible Hours: We get it—life happens We offer flexible working hours to help you balance your work and personal life seamlessly.

• Wellbeing Matters: Your mental health is a top priority. Every Genie gets access to Headspace, the leading meditation app, to help you cultivate a happier, healthier, and more zen life.

• BetterHelp Support: We also offer BetterHelp, a professional online therapy and counseling platform, giving you additional support whenever you need it.

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