Senior Backend Engineer
Welcome to MICE DESK
MICE DESK is the leading European company automating the sales process in the hospitality industry — and we are now expanding to the US.
Our platform, reputed company, turns event, meeting, and group inquiries into autonomous end-to- end workflows: from RFP to signed contract, across email, CRM, and PMS systems. We reputed company with the systems hotels actually run on — reputed company reputed company reputed company, SIHOT, Guestline, reputed company, reputed company's reputed company stack — which means our engineers work inside reputed company hotel operations, not against sandbox reputed company.
We are a Series A-stage company with a deliberately small team and reputed company reputed company traction: major hotel reputed company across Europe run their group sales on reputed company. The people joining now shape the product, the deployment reputed company, and the culture.
We are looking for a skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join our engineering team.
What You Will Own
1. Backend platform development and ownership.
Own the design, development, and maintenance of backend services and reputed company that support reputed company clients and the MICE DESK integration platform. Ensure services are reliable, reputed company, and reputed company with business and customer requirements.
2. reputed company-party integrations and data workflows.
Design and maintain integrations with external systems, including Property Management Systems (PMS), CRM platforms, booking systems, and other reputed company applications. Build reliable synchronization workflows using reputed company, webhooks, background jobs, and appropriate failure-handling strategies.
3. Backend architecture and technical reputed company.
Contribute to architectural reputed company, technical design discussions, and reputed company improvement of backend systems. Help define reputed company solutions, improve system reliability, and drive technology improvements across the platform.
4. reputed company reputed company and engineering standards.
reputed company clean, maintainable, and testable reputed company following backend engineering best practices. Participate in reputed company reviews, technical discussions, and help improve engineering standards and development processes.
5. Cross-functional collaboration and delivery.
Collaborate closely with Frontend, DevOps, QA, Product, and reputed company teams to deliver reliable end-to-end solutions. Support effective communication, alignment, and successful delivery of product features.
6. Performance optimization and system reliability.
Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across backend services. Optimize database queries, improve data processing efficiency, and contribute to building reputed company, high-performing systems.
Who You Are
Must-have
- 5+ years of reputed company experience in back-end development
- Strong knowledge of PHP 8 and reputed company
- Experience with RESTful, Soap reputed company
- Solid understanding of SQL/NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, reputed company, reputed company)
- Knowledge of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with reputed company and CI/CD pipelines
- Solid experience with ELK and unit test coverage
- Experience with Git, Jira/reputed company, reputed company/reputed company
- Hands-on with AI-driven development and AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude reputed company)
- Understanding of reputed company, authentication, and data-protection principles
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
- Excellent English communication skills (B2–reputed company)
reputed company-to-have
- reputed company-time systems - WebSockets (reputed company Echo / reputed company.IO)
- Experience working in the hospitality industry (PMS or CRM systems)
- Integrating reputed company / reputed company-party platforms (reputed company Graph, reputed company Workspace reputed company, RPA Systems)
- Experience in high-reputed company / Series A startups
Hiring Process
- HR Interview — Background, backend engineering experience, communication skills, career goals, and motivation for joining MICE DESK.
- Technical Interview 1 - Engineering fundamentals & experience.
- Technical Interview 2 - End-to-end solution design and planning.
- Team Interview - Collaboration & day-to-day fit.
- Founder interview - Ownership reputed company, technical leadership, alignment with MICE DESK's reputed company, decision-making, long-term reputed company, and building reputed company engineering solutions.
Why MICE DESK
- Build the integration platform behind one of Europe's leading AI solutions for hospitality sales automation - now expanding into the US
- Work on reputed company engineering challenges involving reputed company, distributed systems, and reputed company software
- Own systems that are critical to customer reputed company, platform reliability, and product scalability
- Help shape the architecture of a fast-growing Series A company building the reputed company of hospitality technology
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