About FareHarbor

At FareHarbor, our mission is to make experiences better for everyone. Founded in 2013 in Hawaii and acquired by Booking Holdings in 2018, FareHarbor creates powerful tools that enable our clients (think boat rentals, museums, food tours, events and more!) to operate and grow.

With over 20,000 clients across 90+ countries—we’re the largest in our industry and shaping the future of travel, together.

Our team is an ‘Ohana of 700+ people around the world. We’re passionate about pioneering an industry, embracing challenges with open arms, and delivering value to the experiences industry.

FareHarbor Core Values:

• Think Client First
• We Are One ‘Ohana
• Be Curious and Learn
• Own It.
• Act With Integrity
• Embrace the Challenge

Why FareHarbor?

Founding FareHarbor required unwavering passion. Turning a start-up into the world’s leading and largest reservation software for tours, activities, and attractions required relentless dedication and vision. To date, we’ve helped over 20,000 global businesses operate successfully and are proud to have played a role in enabling business owners to live their dreams.

And since day one, we’ve known that our real success lies in our people—the Ohana.

With each new feature launched and new client onboarded, there is a team of incredible people behind the scenes who are full of dedication, passion, energy, and the will to succeed. We encourage everyone to bring their whole selves to  work—to  believe in their abilities, to freely express their creativity, and to contribute with their own uniqueness by wearing their true colors. We take care of one another and always prioritize health and wellbeing. We give our people the space and trust to learn, to try, to succeed, to collaborate, to think outside of the box, to make mistakes, and even to fail. And then we come together to try again.

From the minute you join, you have a voice. You find your space. You make an impact. We celebrate our victories, shout our successes, and are always eager to tackle new challenges. And we can’t wait to see all that’s to come.

 

What you’ll do here: 

FareHarbor, a Booking holding Company, is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team in Amsterdam. This role focuses on solving shared challenges across Product Teams, delivering reusable tools/components, and improving developer productivity, with scalability and security best practices as a key consideration.

Our platform supports tens of thousands of businesses daily, and our external APIs integrate with major partners such as Viator, TripAdvisor, and VELTRA, helping our clients expand their reach. We are looking for a software engineer first and foremost, but one who also has a strong understanding of scalability, distributed systems, performance and security fundamentals to help ensure that our systems remain high performing, secure and resilient.

 

Key responsibilities:

• Design and implement complex backend systems with a strong focus on performance, scalability and security.
• Build reliable, maintainable, and well-documented infrastructure and tooling that empowers internal developers and ensures high system availability.
• Contribute to the evolution of our platform architecture, identifying areas to improve developer experience, system performance, and code maintainability.
• Write clean, well-tested, production-quality code and reusable libraries that enhance engineering velocity across the organization.
• Collaborate closely with security, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to identify and mitigate risks while balancing performance and usability.
• Proactively drive initiatives around observability, performance tuning, API optimization, and CI/CD improvements.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems to continually improve system robustness and reliability.
• Advocate for best practices in system design, performance-aware development, and secure coding across engineering teams.
• Mentor and support other engineers in adopting scalable and maintainable development patterns.

 

Requirement:

• 6+ years of experience working with large-scale, production systems and mission-critical codebases.
• Proficient in Python with strong experience in Django or similar frameworks.
• Demonstrated expertise in addressing performance bottlenecks, improving scalability, and optimizing developer workflows.
• Familiarity with secure coding principles and ability to design APIs and services that are both performant and secure.
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and modern authentication mechanisms (OAuth, JWT, etc.).
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and release engineering.
• Comfortable working across the stack and collaborating across teams in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly.
• Bonus: hands-on experience with platform security practices or operational security (e.g., Red/Blue/Purple team work).

 

Benefits 

• Global leave benefit 
  • 22 weeks paid parental leave 
  • 2 weeks paid grandparent leave 
  • Extended care and bereavement leave
  • Life insurance policy 
• Pension Plan
• Central Amsterdam Location
• Discount CZ insurance
• Working in a multicultural environment - 45 different nationalities 
• Commuting allowance for public transport & subsidized lunch
• Wellness benefits (Headspace subscription & wellness webinars) 
• Hybrid friendly
• Work-from-home assistance
• Educational Opportunities
• Social hours & events and team-building 
• 26 vacation days per year

FareHarbor is committed to creating a diverse environment, and we are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status. We welcome talent that can offer us new insights and perspectives on challenges that we face, and we take measures to eliminate unconscious bias throughout the interview and hiring process. In tandem, we work to cultivate an inclusive culture in which all of our employees can be their authentic selves.

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