Senior Software Engineer, GraphQL - API Platform
GetYourGuide1 day ago
Berlin, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the GraphQL API layer serving critical search, discovery, and checkout experiences.
- Design schemas and query patterns that balance consumer flexibility with performance and reliability at scale.
- Establish API Platform standards covering schema governance, deprecation policies, federation patterns, and query complexity controls.
- Identify and resolve production performance bottlenecks such as N+1 patterns, over-fetching, and slow resolvers.
- Partner with product engineering teams as an internal platform owner by unblocking and onboarding teams and improving engineering quality.
- Drive query tracing, latency analysis, and SLA monitoring for the GraphQL layer.
- Mentor engineers across the organization on GraphQL best practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, including at least 3 years focused on GraphQL in production.
- Deep hands-on GraphQL expertise in schema design, federation, resolvers, DataLoader patterns, persisted queries, and query cost analysis.
- Experience operating high-throughput, customer-facing GraphQL APIs where reliability and latency affect user experience.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and designing observable, resilient services that operate under load.
- Fluency in at least one of Java, Go, or Node.js.
- Ability to prioritize, manage stakeholders, communicate effectively, and collaborate across teams.
- A proactive, positive, customer-centric, and data-driven approach with an interest in mentoring and knowledge sharing.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Familiarity with GraphQL caching strategies, including CDN-level caching, persisted queries, and response caching, is preferred.
- Experience building internal developer platforms or managing APIs as a product is preferred.
- Prior e-commerce or startup experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs.
- Work from anywhere in the world for 30 days per year.
- Hybrid work with three days of in-office collaboration and two optional work-from-home focus days.
- Quarterly team events and yearly company-wide events.
- Monthly transportation and fitness budget.
- Discounts on GetYourGuide activities for employees, friends, and family.
- Language reimbursement program.
- Health and wellness benefits.
About GetYourGuide
GetYourGuide is an online marketplace where travelers discover and book tours, attractions, and local activities from professional operators. It monetizes via commissions on bookings and provides suppliers a platform to manage inventory and fulfillment across web and mobile. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Berlin, it operates globally and supports the post-booking journey from ticket delivery to on-trip assistance.