Change the way the world travels
Join the GetYourGuide journey to connect people with unforgettable travel experiences around the world. Millions look to us for unique activities they can trust, and it’s all powered by our commitment to make every single journey extraordinary - including yours. Ready to unlock your potential with a community of fellow explorers? Find your next role at our Berlin HQ or one of our local offices around the globe, from New York to Bangkok. Head to getyourguide.careers to take the first step.
Team mission
The Central Services group is a strategic unit that develops and maintains foundational platform capabilities essential to GetYourGuide's global operations and customer experience.
This group drives efficiency and consistency across the business by centralizing critical technical services & capabilities in three key areas: visual optimization, localization, communications and merchandising. By consolidating these fundamental services, the group enables GetYourGuide to deliver relevant, seamless, localized, and visually engaging experiences to travelers worldwide while empowering internal teams with robust, scalable solutions.
Your team - Communications Platform - is in charge of developing and maintaining GetYourGuide's centralized communication infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of critical customer comms & touchpoints across multiple channels. The team owns the technical foundation for all customer communications (transactional and non-transactional), including email, push notifications, SMS and emerging communication channels.
Your mission
- Work in a cross-functional mission team with highly skilled engineers, product, and data
- Continuously improve our code base, systems and processes
- Design and develop efficient solutions that can continue to scale
- Help to enable your team to iterate fast and learn about our customers by designing, launching and iterating on experiments, internal solutions and user capabilities
Your toolkit
- 6+ years of software development experience
- High proficiency in Java and Spring Boot
- Experience designing architecture and deployment of web applications & services
- Experience with distributed systems and asynchronous messaging
- Experience in operating at scale, CI/CD pipelines and a cloud DevOps / infrastructure mindset
- Experience with stakeholder management, technical leadership and cross-team collaboration
- Ability to turn ideas into fast, reliable, and maintainable code
- Positive, proactive team player who is passionate about their craft
- Customer-centric prioritization and data-driven decision-making
- Hands-on experience leveraging and experimenting with AI
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to others
Extras that give you an edge
- Experience developing internal SDKs and libraries, providing API documentation and developer tooling for other internal teams.
- Experience with communication platforms and services (Sendgrid, Twilio, Postmark, Braze and related services)
- Experience with GraphQL ecosystems
- Experience with SLO/SLA management and Platform Reliability
- Experience with security and scalability of asynchronous flows
- Experience in migrating a monolithic application to a services-oriented architecture.
- Prior experience working in the e-commerce space
- Prior experience in start-up environments
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
- Language reimbursement program
- Health and wellness benefits
And more…
How to apply
Submit your CV/resume in English using the form below. For tips and insights into our hiring process and culture, check out ‘how we hire’ and ‘life at GetYourGuide’. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at jobs@getyourguide.com.
We’re an equal opportunities employer
Our commitment is that every qualified person will be evaluated according to their skills, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion. Please refrain from including your picture and age with your application.