Backend Engineer

**Can you help us change the world?**:
Yes, you read that correctly. It sounds grand, but we've got big ideas at Mews. We're transforming the world of hospitality, re-imagining the industry with a best-in-class cloud-based property management solution for hotels, hostels, apartments, and so much more.

We're on the lookout for ambitious, tenacious and passionate people who want to join the next generation of innovators and disrupt the hospitality industry with us. Sound good so far? Keep reading and tumble down the Mews rabbit hole...

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**About the role**:
We are looking for Backend Engineers to help us build our products, which is an intuitive, best-in-class cloud-based property management solution for hotels, hostels, apartments, and so much more.

We have several openings for these roles, and we are looking for both levels of experience - intermediate and senior developers.

For a high-level overview of engineering culture at Mews, check our results of Pragmatic Engineer test. For more information, have a look at our developer blog, YouTube channel with recordings of events we talked at, GitHub FAQ about life at Mews or Twitter with all the latest news.

Our tech stack includes C#,.NET, Azure SQL, Azure App Service, Azure DevOps, Cosmos DB, Redis, Pulumi, GitHub, React, Redux, TypeScript, Robot Framework

**Your mission**
- Partner with other backend and frontend engineers, QA, UX designer and a Product Manager to deliver features for dozens of thousands of our users world-wide:

- Design and implement these features using C#,.NET, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Redis
- Design and expose APIs to be used by frontend engineers.
- Design and implement scalable high availability solutions with a strong focus on quality, performance and security
- Own quality of your product - write unit/API tests, agree with QA what needs to be covered by E2E automated tests
- Collaborate with teammates to ensure business success of your product (for example through roadmap planning, improving quality, proposing & implementing usability improvements,...)
- Follow agile methodology with your team to deliver small end-to-end functionality increments to production several times a day.
- Perform code reviews for your colleagues and learn from code review feedback given by others
- Care about the technical state of your product, propose and implement technical improvements

**Requirements**:

- Strong knowledge of C# and.NET. Knowledge of Git.
- Either commercial experience with software development or experience with a larger personal or open-source software project
- You care about writing and maintaining a high-quality code, but also can make compromises when needed.
- You are passionate about technology, and you look for innovative solutions to common problems.
- You are a team player that is not afraid to help your colleagues.
- You can effectively communicate in English.

**What's in it for you?**:
Did you know that Mews has been voted the Best Place to Work in Hotel Tech for 3 years running? You do now. Most of that is down to our inspiring team, but part of it is because of some pretty amazing perks. As well as awesome colleagues and stimulating work, you'll get:

- Participation in Company shares program
- Best-in-class Parental Leave Policy. At Mews, the primary caregiver gets 6 months fully paid parental leave, the secondary caregiver gets 2 months fully paid. (No matter your location, can be used during the 1st year of your newborn, covers birthing, adoption and surrogate, applies if you're employed for at least 1 year at Mews)
- Flexible Benefits via the ThanksBen platform (pay for things like your Netflix, Spotify or other streaming services, for instance)
- Unlimited paid holiday (no, this is not a typo)
- Wellness Wednesday's (where every last Wednesday of the month, the whole company enjoys a paid day off to attend to your own well-being)
- Remote/flexible working (we're 100% hybrid-proof, but we cannot hire from anywhere in the world unfortunately, so feel free to reach out and check with us)
- Monthly working from home allowance and a monthly healthcare insurance allowance (we want you to be happy & healthy)
- Regular team events, socials and a legendary annual in-person company gathering called MewsCon (the only con that's actually a pro)

**Who is Mews?**:
We want to get to know you, so it's only fair we tell you a little bit about ourselves first. Mews has been transforming hospitality since 2012. What began in a single hotel in Prague now powers thousands of hotels around the world, as they pursue their mission to develop transformational solutions for brands and create remarkable experiences for guests.

Since the beginning, Mews embraced being different. Mews is not simply a property management system, but a connected hospitality cloud with products across the hotel ecosystem and more integrations than anyone else.

From global hospitality brands to independent properties, hoteliers join Mews because they reco