Software Developer - Javascript & Integrations

About Smartness

We are Smartness, and we support small and medium-sized accommodation providers with solutions to help them fight back against the huge hotel chains. We started in 2020 by providing these companies with a dynamic pricing solution  which increase revenue by on average 30%. Last year, we were named one of Italy’s top start-ups, and are the fastest growing B2B SaaS company in the accommodation space in both revenue and number of clients. Today we are working with over 4000 companies in over 20 countries, and steadily growing. Yet, this is only the start of our journey.
Beyond Smartpricing, we've launched a suite of products over the past few years that is growing by more than 10% month-over-month. Our goal is to become one of the leading global players in our industry.

What Will You Do?

Our technology team is developing a range of innovative solutions to help service providers optimize the management of their businesses. We are making significant investments in R&D with the goal of doubling the number of products offered by the end of the year, and to achieve this, we are expanding our engineering team.

As a Backend Developer specializing in integrations within our team, your main responsibility will be developing and maintaining seamless connections between our platform and our Partners. You'll be working with JavaScript and TypeScript to build scalable and reliable backend services. While integrations are key, your work will primarily focus on writing clean, efficient code to handle high volumes of data and ensure smooth communication between systems.

Your contributions will be crucial in unlocking new features and capabilities for our users, ensuring that our platform is capable of operating at scale. You’ll be exposed to a variety of external systems and technologies, and you’ll need to integrate them seamlessly into our existing architecture.

You will be responsible for:

• Developing and maintaining integrations that communicate with Partners using JavaScript and TypeScript.
  
  

• Independently building and maintaining backend services to ensure smooth data flow and interactions between systems.
  
  

• Writing clear, maintainable, and high-quality code for integrations and backend systems.

• Working on extensive and multi-functional integration libraries, as well as core libraries with inherited methods and endpoints within a microservices architecture connected via Kafka
  
  

• Troubleshooting integration challenges, with a focus on backend services, to improve system performance.
  
  

• Willingness to learn new partner technologies, especially in authentication, and act as technical point of contact in international meetings.
  
  

• Ensuring that all code is scalable and handles high traffic volumes efficiently.

What Are We Looking For?

• 3+ years of experience as a Backend Developer with a bold focus on JavaScript and TypeScript.
  
  

• As this is a purely backend position, solid understanding of backend development, including writing and maintaining scalable, efficient code.
  
  

• Experience with RDBMS, preferably Postgres.
  
  

• Ability to read and work with an existing codebase efficiently.
  
  

• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving complex backend integration challenges.
  
  

• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to propose and implement improvements autonomously.
  
  

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and high-pressure environment.
  
  

Ability to collaborate effectively with external Partners and internal teams to ensure seamless integrations.

What do we offer?

• Work in a small and top-performing team that moves extremely fast where you are extremely important.

• Work without having to deal with jerks and ego-maniacs.

• The opportunity to join one of the best travel-tech sales teams in Europe.

• A place where your talent can blossom.

• An environment where mistakes are allowed – we make bold choices to achieve ambitious goals, learn from mistakes, and move forward.

• A place where your voice matters – meetings provide space for new ideas and projects, regardless of your role or seniority.

• Continuous growth – we challenge the status quo, renewing our sales processes and approaches to meet challenging goals.

• We have fun while working! We are easygoing people. 

• Leverage state-of-the-art software and automation frameworks to optimize devel