Junior Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

Travelcircus is seeking a Junior Backend Engineer to join the development team. The role involves building and extending platform services, APIs, and using AI tools. Ideal candidates have experience with PHP, API development, and Service-Oriented Architectures.

• 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
• Using AI tools to enhance the development process
• 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
• Addressing bugs and performance issues

• 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 common AI agents like Claude or Codex
• Experience with Linux/macOS command line
• Experience using message queues and Elasticsearch is a plus
• Strong visual, verbal and written communication skills, fluency in english, german is a plus
• Experience working in Agile environments