Staff Engineer, Supply Tech (Backend Focused)

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Team mission

The Supply Tech group enables every supplier to deliver great experiences at scale—so travelers can always discover and book the highest‑quality activities with confidence. We build the core platform and product capabilities that help supply partners grow on their terms: expanding reach, maximizing revenue, differentiating their offering, streamlining operations through powerful tools and support, and protecting a trusted marketplace through fairness and transparency.

We’re an AI-forward, platform-minded group that partners closely with Product, Design, Data, and Business teams to ship reliable systems that scale across a complex supplier ecosystem. We empower engineers with high autonomy and ownership, making pragmatic trade-offs while raising the bar on quality, integrity, and long-term market leverage.

Your mission

Set technical direction for Supply Tech: define target architecture, quality bars, and multi-quarter technical bets that unlock supplier growth (self-serve onboarding, optimization, and integrity/quality gates).
Lead cross-team execution on complex initiatives: drive alignment, sequence work across teams, and deliver measurable outcomes while managing dependencies and tradeoffs.
Design and evolve scalable, maintainable systems powering supplier-facing workflows (onboarding, catalog quality, and optimization loops), with strong emphasis on simplicity, resilience, and long-term leverage.
Raise engineering craftsmanship and operational excellence: improve reliability, observability, and incident readiness; reduce systemic tech debt; and ensure our services run safely at scale.
Translate business needs into technical strategy: work tightly with Product, Design, Data, and Commercial stakeholders to clarify outcomes, propose solution options, and land decisions that balance speed, correctness, and strategic flexibility.
Build effective “how we build” mechanisms for the group: drive reusable patterns (platform primitives, guardrails, templates), improve how teams collaborate, and create force-multiplying clarity through docs and technical RFCs.
Champion AI-forward product delivery where it creates real leverage (e.g., category-smart onboarding and an AI performance coach), ensuring safe deployment, clear evaluation, and responsible guardrails.
Mentor and grow technical leaders: coach engineers, strengthen decision-making across the org, and set a high bar for architecture, delivery, and accountability.

Your toolkit

8+ years of software development experience, including ownership of complex, business-critical backend systems (Staff scope).
Proven strength in technical leadership: setting direction, aligning stakeholders, and driving execution across teams through influence.
Proficiency in Java/Spring and the ability to design and ship backend features end-to-end (from concept/RFC to production).
Strong background in designing and implementing scalable service-oriented / distributed architectures, with a solid understanding of design patterns and pragmatic tradeoffs.
Experience building and operating production microservices in distributed, cloud, and Kubernetes-based environments, with modern observability practices and a high bar for reliability.
Hands-on experience with relational databases such as Postgres and MySQL (data modeling, migrations, performance, and operational maturity).
Experience designing and evolving APIs, including GraphQL, with a strong focus on correctness, versioning, and developer experience.
Ability to work effectively end-to-end (backend-leaning), including collaborating across APIs, workflows, and supplier-facing product surfaces when needed to ship outcomes.
A positive, proactive, team-oriented mindset, and a passion for mentoring and raising the bar on engineering craftsmanship.
Be excited to experiment with and leverage AI (in product delivery and your day-to-day development workflow).
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Extras that give you an edge

Experience building backend platforms/primitives that create leverage across teams (shared services, guardrails, workflows, templates).
Experience with workflow-heavy B2B/partner domains (onboarding, catalog/configuration, quality gates, operational tooling).
Experience building and shipping AI-assisted backend capabilities (e.g., evaluation/guardrails, safe rollouts, human-in-the-loop workflows), ideally applied to onboarding/optimization use cases.
Experience improving products via experimentation and measurement readiness (instrumentation, baselines, iterative delivery).
Comfortable contributing to the frontend codebase when needed (TypeScript + Vue.js) to unblock delivery or improve end-to-end quality.

How we’ll make your career journey extraordinary

Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs for continuous learning and development
Work from anywhere in the world for 30 days per year
A hybrid working approach with three days of in office collaboration (Mon, Tue, Thur) and two days of optional at home focus time.
Opportunities to collaborate and socialize with team members through quarterly team events and yearly company-wide events
Monthly transportation and fitness budget
Discounts for you, your friends, and family on GetYourGuide activities
Health and wellness benefits

How to apply

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Monthly allowance for transport (Deutschland ticket)
Bonuses for successful employee referrals
Virtual shares so you can be part of our success
Company contributions to personal pension plans
30 days per year for telecommuting
20% discount for friends & family on GetYourGuide activities
25 vacation days; +1 for each additional year up to a cap of 28
Discounted Urban Sports Club membership
Mental wellbeing services with nilo.health
In-house gym and fitness classes
Annual flu shots
1,000€ yearly for courses and training
Regular meetups, workshops, and hackdays
Access to AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot
10 days of paid educational leave every 2 years
Weekly catered brunches, lunches, and snacksExtra days off when winter holidays land on weekends
Annual GetYourGuide Summits.
Partner discounts including FutureBens, Plant Club, and more

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