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Junior Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

Travelcircus · Berlin

On-siteJuniorPosted 9 Aug 2026

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Übersicht Do you love traveling and are you ready for new challenges in an ambitious, fast-growing and committed company? Then you've come to the right place! Start your career with us as: Junior Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

Was Du bei uns machst Travelcircus is seeking a  Junior  Backend Engineer (m/f/x)  to join the development team. We're looking for someone who's passionate about building robust & scalable technology platforms, systems and APIs. You'll be an integral part of the engineering team and will work closely with others throughout our company to deliver the best possible product to our customers. Ideal candidates will have experience with PHP, API development and Service-Oriented Architectures.

Deine Verantwortung bei Travelcircus Building and extending our Platform Services and Booking Systems

Designing, developing, and maintaining a robust transactional API platform, that will be used internally and directly by 3rd parties

Participating in code reviews and pair programming

Improving our existing platform codebase which is used by tens of thousands of users on a daily basis

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Addressing bugs and performance issues

Das kannst Du von uns erwarten FLEXIBLE WORKING HOURS thanks to part-time and flexitime models as well as remote work

ATTRACTIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT in a stylish loft office with start-up flair, cooking together, fun & cohesion in a varied working environment and regular team events

TRANSPARENT COMMUNICATION thanks to flat hierarchies, fixed feedback cycles and weekly company and team meetings

OPTIMAL CAREER OPPORTUNITIES thanks to a comprehensive onboarding program and individual induction, continuous on-the-job training, optimal promotion and further development opportunities

ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION & DISCOUNT on the BVG company ticket (local public transport) and discounts with over 800 other providers

PERSONAL TRAVEL BUDGET of €1080 per year to spend freely on our entire product portfolio

WORK LIFE BALANCE with 28 vacation days, increasing per year of service, with up to 35 days of vacation entitlement as well as company health management and a pension plan

Das wünschen wir uns von Dir Experience building web applications and distributed web services

Knowledge of PHP / OOP, relational databases and data modelling

Good understanding of SQL and the ability to write and debug queries

Experience with Linux/macOS command line

Experience using message queues and Elasticsearch is a plus

Strong visual, verbal and written communication skills

Experience working in Agile environments

Hast Du noch Fragen oder willst Du dich gleich bewerben? If you want to develop yourself further and take on responsibility, then you've come to the right place. Please send us your application, including your salary expectations and your earliest possible  start date , exclusively via our online application system.  Our Team Lead People & Operations will be happy to answer any questions you may have: Ines Krawczyk Team Travelcircus Over the past few years,   Travelcircus   has developed into an international company with over 100 highly motivated and committed employees who form the basis of our success. If you would like to get to know our team, then take a look at our  Instagram Career page   - there you will get a first impression of your future colleagues.  We expressly declare that we welcome everyone, regardless of gender, nationality or ethnic origin, religion or ideology, disability, age or sexual identity. We look forward to meeting you!

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