Recent Graduate - Full Stack Engineer

-- This position is for prospective 2023 graduates and with start date September 2023--

OTA Insight is a commercial platform for the hospitality industry (our clients are AirBnb property owners, individual hotels and major chains like Hilton, Accor, etc.). These are exciting times at OTA Insight: we recently raised another round of funding ($80 million) and we have welcomed two new companies, Transparent and Kriya, to our organisation that will expand our product portfolio! To accomplish our ambitious plans we are growing our Engineering team and Frontend Engineering has a crucial role to play. So, are you ready to have a big impact in a fast-growing scale-up?

Are you passionate about creating clean single-page applications and rendering large and complex amounts of information in a glanceable way - all to deliver one of the best BI solutions in the hospitality industry? Great, then read on!

About the position

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer who is passionate about creating clean single-page applications and rendering large and complex amounts of information in a glanceable way, and wants to see their work translated into real life applications that impact 100.000’s of hotels worldwide.

In a fast-growing scale-up priorities might shift from time to time. You’ll gain experience and ownership in different domains depending on your ambition, but here are some general topics:

• Creating complex single-page MVC applications, which are able to render large amounts of data
• Implementing data dashboards, with a focus on UX and making insights glanceable
• Iterate on our design system
• Code, test and maintain existing & new Python API backends
• Deploy and monitor applications in a reproducible and scalable way
• Experiment, think about and take ownership of a piece of our tech stack/infrastructure and find ways to improve it
• Provide support to your team members and other teams in the company. We have a very open and flat structure and have a very short feedback loop on both internal and customer questions

Technologies you’ll work with:

Ember.js, Sass, Stencil.js, Storybook, Lerna, Gitlab, Docker, Google Cloud

(feel free to ask us why these are the best fit for us)

About the team

The OTA Insight Frontend team in Ghent is the most visible part of what our engineering team does. Its mission is to build a reliable and performant BI application that’s being fed by our data APIs. The challenge lies in managing the large and complex amounts of data that we’re crunching on the fly, and at the same time offering a simple and actionable experience to our end user. The team works in close collaboration with our Product team, as well as a highly talented group of software engineers, devops engineers, and project managers to drive initiatives forward.

Today we process billions of data points and +100TB of data on a daily basis, containing hotels' pricing information, search data, hotel bookings, etc. All of that using modern technologies. Being a growth company enables us to regularly attract new and interesting datasets, which can unlock new product directions. 

About OTA Insight

OTA Insight is a scale-up within the hotel industry. Founded in 2012, with a vision to provide user friendly tools to hoteliers. Today we are considered the global leader in hotel BI and are working with 55,000+ hotels worldwide in 185 countries. As there are more than 1 million hotels worldwide, we are still filled with ambition to grow further.

We generate value to our customers by visualising actionable insights out of our vast datasets. Our tools help hotels to analyse their competition’s room pricing, analyse their hotel revenue, and find out where and when guests are looking and booking. Our products have a profound impact on the day to day activities of our customers, taking away guesswork and simplifying their routines. This has allowed us to grow rapidly over the past few years, adding new products as we solve new problems for our users.

We are not looking for existing knowledge, but rather for the right mindset and potential:

• Bachelor or Master degree in a software engineering field or design-oriented education
• Experience with modern and scalable front-end architectures
• Interest in visualising large amounts of data
• You set a high bar for yourself, and expect others to do the same. You’ll find we have an exceptionally talented team and are constantly looking for the best people to join
• You are passionate about what you do. What unites us is our passion to do great work that our users benefit from.
• You are creative, entrepreneurial and open for innovation. We strongly believe that everything can be improved. We expect you to think and learn about new technologies, and take initiative to try and suggest new things
• You are a critical thinker who understands that perfect is the enemy of the good. We don’t over-engineer, but we do whatever it takes to achieve our goals.
• You work well in a team, but don’t mind getting your hands dirty. You’ll quickly learn that we have a very open culture where everyone can be reached out to for help, ideas, feedback and much more. But everyone takes responsibility for their own work.
• Fluent in English

We welcome:

• Experience with a frontend framework - we use EmberJS
• Experience with any cloud platform
• Good software engineering practices, e.g. use of version control