Senior Backend Developer - NodeJS/Javascript

AirFi is a market leader in providing portable Onboard Passenger Entertainment and Mobile Crew Sales Solutions to various passenger travel segments. Headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands - AirFi is the world's fastest-growing company in the mobile InFlight Entertainment space and in providing ancillary sales solutions to enterprise customers.

What will you be doing :

- Responsible for ideating, designing, developing, and supporting the backend services of AirFi web apps for different modes of passenger transport including major airlines across the world.

- Manage your components independently, including but not limited to: gather requirements; communicate design decisions to cross-functional teams including data science, engineering, analytics, and operations; proactively seek user feedback.

- You will help AirFi to quickly iterate and scale web app development to different segments of customers with standard processes, automation, monitoring, and rapid quality assurance.

- Proactively monitor the web apps space for continuous improvements and optimizations, looking for new opportunities and challenges.

What we look for :

- Exposure to product development, self-driven, highly motivated and you must be independent in managing on your own components or features

- You must be extremely collaborative and enjoy working cross-functionally with other engineers, designers, and stakeholders

- You must possess an affinity for metrics and analytics - You must be proactive and must move fast or pivot to meet the changing needs of the product

- You are a problem solver and can use everything from front end to command-line tools to help you identify and fix issues

- You should be diligent, thoughtful, have an eye for detail and have great oral and written communication skills

- You care deeply about writing quality/testable/modular code and have a passion to suck every bit of performance of the code

- Work with product and engineering teams on different data driven products and help drive/implement the Data flows for the same.

- Designing, integrating and documenting technical components for seamless data extraction and analysis

Must have technical skills :

- MUST: Experience in Javascript or any modern-day JS frameworks - 5+ years

- Experience in MEAN/MERN stack, NodeJS, ReactJS, etc - 4+ years

- Experience on building RESTful services and MVC patterns - 4+ years

- Experience in database design (NoSQL preferred)

- Expertise in designing scalable and modular applications and microservices

- Linux, shell scripting skills (we run on embedded Linux)

You get bonus points for:

- Responsive web-frameworks (e.g. Foundation, Bootstrap)

- Experience with Git (GitHub), automatic deployments, continuous integration

- Expertise Cloudant, AWS, GCP, etc.

- Exposure to Video streaming, Payments, video transcoding

- Affinity with airlines, the most exciting industry in the world (travel may be required at some point) and have an affinity for metrics and analytics.

What you can expect :

AirFi has a unique culture that values employee freedom and responsibility. We promise to provide opportunities that not only satisfy your creative instincts but also let you make a significant impact on the products that we create and ultimately the business we are in. We also encourage a work culture where - no idea is a bad idea and the team can shout it out to be heard!

Job Perks

AirFi benefits include flexible work timing, work from home, open-door policy, healthy breakfast, snacks & fruits, regular engagement activities with occasional beers are also some of the things that makes AirFi an interesting place to work!