Summary
A leading event registration, ticketing, and data intelligence company is looking for an experienced Backend Developer to build innovative features for millions of visitors. You will be responsible for translating requirements into features in the middleware and data layer, maintaining software on Linux and AWS. The role requires a minimum of 3 years of experience, proficiency in C++ and SQL, and professional English skills. The position is based in a historic building in a city centre, with a hybrid work setup requiring a minimum of 2 office days per week.
Highlights
Opportunity to collaborate with a talented team in a growing global organization, excellent remuneration package, professional and dedicated team in an informal and open work atmosphere, short communication lines, ability to make an impact on the product, hybrid work model.
Description
Visit, part of the GES family, is looking for an experienced Backend Developer
About Visit
Since 1992, Visit (visitcloud.com) has grown steadily to become Europe’s leading event registration, ticketing, and data intelligence company.
Today, event organisers across the globe utilise our software and services like Visit Intelligence and Visit Connect to collect, understand, and monetise their data.
Visit enables event organisers to deliver targeted, personalised visitor promotion campaigns that really work.
We have offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Romania, and Dubai, plus a network of accredited partners worldwide.
Together, we deliver cutting-edge software solutions that really work.
Visit is part of the GES (www.ges.com) family, which is a Viad enterprise (www.viad.com), listed at the NYSE as VVI and a leading global provider of extraordinary experiences, including hospitality and leisure activities, experiential marketing, and live events.
About the vacancy
Visit has experienced considerable growth in 2023 with 5.3 million registrations at 1,200 events in 51 countries, resulting in more than 3.3 million leads!
We have also introduced various engagement tools to enhance the event experience.
By streamlining the development cycle, the platform now ensures faster and more responsive updates and improvements.
The exhibitor and visitor apps recently had a major UI/UX transformation to optimize the user experience.
The development team in Haarlem, located in a historic building in the city centre, is aiming to further innovate the services and shape the future of events.
We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer to join our team to build the best and innovative features for millions of visitors and powerful functionalities for our clients.
In the position of Backend Developer, you will build the best and innovative features for millions of visitors and powerful management functionalities for our clients.
You will be responsible for translating requirements into features in the middleware and data layer of our platform.
In addition, the software that operates on the Linux operating system and AWS Cloud environment are part of the software stack that you will maintain with the rest of the team.
Key activities and responsibilities:
Translate requirements into fully functioning features using C++, MySQL, Linux and the latest techniques and common frameworks like Git, GitLab, Jira, Confluence and AWS, in cooperation with the rest of the team.
Create concepts/prototypes to be able to align project approach with selected stakeholders.
Focus on improving the Visit products by incorporating enhancements into current development and/or making proposals to the roadmap for larger enrichments.
Actively engage in continuous improvement with biweekly releases and sprint reviews, ensuring suggestions and opportunities are highlighted to your line manager.
Collaborate and provide support to the wider Visit development team consisting of front- and back-end developers, hardware and DevOps engineers, project managers, testers, and technical writers.
Skills, qualifications, and experience:
Bachelor's or Master's level of education or working experience in relevant sector/field.
Minimum of 3 years work experience in a similar role.
Professional proficiency in the English language.
Dutch language skills are a plus.
The programming language we use is C++.
Knowledge and experience of the latest C++ standard is required.
Experience with SQL and common web techniques is recommended.
Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
Why join Visit:
Opportunity to collaborate with a talented team of professionals in a growing global organization.
An excellent remuneration package with a salary that best reflects your experience and skill level.
Minimum requirement to work 2 days in the office in Haarlem.
A professional and dedicated team in an informal and open work atmosphere, with short communication lines and the ability to make an impact on the product.
Unique offer: If you are shortlisted as a candidate, we will arrange a “Visit to the Visit Team” to give you a look behind the scenes and share more information about our platform and the technology we use.