Senior Software Engineer, GraphQL - API Platform
GetYourGuideResponsibilities
- Own and evolve the GraphQL API layer supporting search, discovery, checkout, and other critical customer-facing experiences.
- Design GraphQL schemas and query patterns for flexibility, performance, and reliability at scale.
- Define and enforce API Platform standards covering schema governance, deprecation, federation, and query complexity controls.
- Identify and resolve production performance issues such as N+1 patterns, over-fetching, and slow resolvers.
- Partner with product engineering teams as an internal platform owner to unblock and onboard teams and improve engineering quality.
- Drive observability through query tracing, latency analysis, and SLA monitoring.
- Mentor engineers across the organization on GraphQL best practices.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of backend software engineering experience, including at least 3 years focused on GraphQL in production.
- Deep hands-on GraphQL expertise with schema design, federation such as Apollo 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 work and manage stakeholders, with strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience mentoring and sharing technical knowledge, along with a proactive and customer-centric mindset.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Preferred qualifications include GraphQL caching experience, internal developer platform or API product experience, e-commerce experience, and startup experience.
Benefits
- Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs.
- Work from anywhere in the world for 30 days per year.
- Hybrid work with three in-office collaboration days per week and two optional at-home focus days.
- Quarterly team events and annual company-wide events.
- Monthly transportation and fitness budget.
- Discounts on GetYourGuide activities for employees, friends, and family.
- Language reimbursement program.
- Health and wellness benefits.
- The role is based at the Berlin headquarters or another local company office.
About GetYourGuide
GetYourGuide is a leading global online marketplace to discover and book experiences worth traveling for. Travelers can use GetYourGuide to find things to do in more than 18,000 cities, including tours from local experts, exclusive access to must-see attractions, as well as immersive bucket-list experiences. More than 50,000 supply partners leverage GetYourGuide’s easy-to-use platform to grow their businesses, offering 200,000 experiences to travelers around the world. If you share our passion for travel and tech, check out our open positions at careers.getyourguide.com or take a look behind the scenes of GetYourGuide on our blog: inside.getyourguide.com. Important notice: Protect yourself from recruitment scams. To ensure your safety during the application process, please be aware of potential scammers impersonating GetYourGuide recruiters. Remember, GetYourGuide will never request your payment or sensitive personal information during recruitment. All official job opportunities are exclusively posted on our Careers page. If you suspect fraudulent activity, report it to jobs@getyourguide.com.