Junior Back-end Developer

Shiji is a global technology company dedicated to providing innovative solutions for the hospitality industry, ensuring seamless operations for hoteliers day and night.

Built on the Shiji Platform—the only truly global hotel technology platform—Shiji’s cloud-based portfolio includes Property Management System, Point-of-Sale, guest engagement, distribution, payments, and data intelligence solutions for over 91,000 hotels worldwide, including the largest chains.

The best hotels run on Shiji—day and night.

Job Description

For our Barcelona office, our Engineering team is looking for a Junior Back-end Developer who is eager to learn in a collaborative environment.

What you'll do

Work with a talented team of engineers in data acquisition (scrape, process, validate and fix huge amount of data).

Maintain and create parts of a scraping platform

Take part in the modernization of a long-running platform, helping transform and improve a system that has supported our products for years.

Qualifications

Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to demonstrate practical solutions.

Proficiency in English, with the ability to work and communicate comfortably in an international environment.

Knowledge of: html, xml, DOM, xpath.

You're not afraid of adapting, learning and working with different languages and frameworks.

Ability to solve programming problems, with an understanding of the impact of solutions in terms of algorithmic time and space complexity.

Collaborative working style, involving colleagues in important decisions and contributing to a culture of shared code ownership.

Nice to Have

Knowledge of Python 3

Experience or familiarity with Java and tools/frameworks such as Spring, Scrapy, Scrapyd, and WebHarvest.

Additional Information

Challenging and creative technology environment with a great deal of freedom and responsibility.

Growth and well-being through access to platforms like Pluralsight, GoodHabitz, and OpenUp.

Flexible work schedule/hybrid working model

Free coffee, fresh fruit at the office

Brand new office located in the center of Barcelona

International team and fantastic work environment

Team building activities and charity donation programs

Our technology stack

Microservices based architecture running on Kubernetes.

Java, Python, and NodeJS.

Kafka, Elasticsearch, Mongo, Cassandra, and Mysql persistence.

MapReduce and stream-based data processing.