Pollen is on a mission to have all the best experiences in one place. With Pollen+ you can pick from a highly curated selection of world class festivals and events such as Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits and Wireless festival. With Pollen Presents you can discover experiences only available through us, where we bring every major category of entertainment including music, sport and lifestyle to the most exciting destinations in the world such as Las Vegas, Ibiza and Los Cabos.

Pollen

London, GB

Senior Backend Engineer

£75,000-£100,000 / YEAR

We're looking for software engineers of all calibres with a keen interest in Python, Django & GraphQL to work on the expansion of our experiences marketplace. At Pollen, our vision is to be responsible for 3/5 of people’s top memories. By the end of 2021, we expect hundreds of thousands of people to be finding and purchasing experiences through the Pollen marketplace. We’re on plan to 2x our 350 strong headcount in the next 12 months with offices in London, Los Angeles, Toronto, Vegas & Wroclaw, and backing from some of the most exciting VC's in the world, this is an exciting time to be at Pollen.

  • Contribute towards our company success by growing our existing platform using Python 3, Django 2.0 and GraphQL on top of multiple internal services and including external APIs (including integrate various ticketing providers and payment processing platforms)
  • Collaborate with product, design and other teams to gain sufficient business understanding to serve the needs of our clients, customers and colleagues and to support your team members in delivering solutions
  • Balance the trade-offs of delivering sustainable code that provides an excellent customer experience in a fast-paced startup environment
  • Model good leadership behaviour by engaging in peer to peer feedback and code reviews to foster a healthy, collaborative engineering culture as measured by Spotify-style squad health checks
  • Use test automation and agile practices to deliver features continuously to production, measured by feedback and daily releases going smoothly
  • Be trusted with access to all of our production systems and improve our DevOps culture by participating in daily releases and technical customer support rota