Do you want to make a real impact while working for a fast-paced travel tech startup? Is the combination of the travel industry, a community platform and a SaaS-product something that raises your heartbeat? Want to build great software products from scratch and enhance a proven community platform? Does taking full technical and product ownership not scare you at all? Do you like to work together in a tight-knit team where you can be a creative inventor every day? And all of this while virtually traveling the world in your day-to-day job as you build the best travel platform on the planet!
Company & role
At Daymaker, we help travelers plan their next trip based on real experiences from like-minded travelers. Thousands of DIY travelers share authentic travel stories, itineraries and tips on our platform, inspiring each other to discover destinations in a more personal way. Cherry on top? Daymaker is free to use for our community.
That’s possible because our business model is B2B-focused. We work with (inter)national destinations and travel brands, helping them reach this highly engaged travel community through authentic, user generated content.
This puts Daymaker at the unique crossroad between the B2C traveler and the B2B travel industry, where genuine stories lead to more meaningful and effective connections.
As a full stack developer you’ll join forces with our team of 3. You will be building a new SaaS tool for travel marketeers, while continuously improving our community platform with enhancements, new features and UX improvements.
You will:
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Not *just* be a code-monkey ! You’ll work together with the rest of the team to deliver end-to-end features, managing the process from concept to delivery.
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You’ll work closely with our Content & Community manager Hannah to keep our platform bug-free and stress-test new features.
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Translating a team brainstorm session into a detailed functional and technical analysis is a reflex you were born with.
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Based on your in-depth insight of our upcoming SaaS-tool, you write well designed, testable and efficient code. You’ll integrate data from various back-end services and databases, and you’ll design and develop API’s.
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Your tech-curiosity keeps you on top of emerging technologies and industry trends, and you apply these into your day-to-day work.
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Your born feeling for front-end design helps your code-magic really come to life.
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Accelerating and shortening development sprints via AI-coding is your second nature. And you are proudly showing this off to the rest of the team.
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Of course creating solid documentation is also part of your work. But we promise we’ll leave you some time to do your actual dev work.
Our Technologies
With the renewal of our platform in December 2024 we have chosen a full-stack JavaScript focus. We primarily use React, Next.js, and Node.js as the core of our platform. Our backend stack includes other technologies such as Postgres, Redis and GraphQL. We're always seeking ways to improve our technology stack, and we love to see you contribute your input to these discussions.
Are you hyped? Then we are hyped to meet you!
Smash that apply button and we’ll be in touch, real soon!
Who we are looking for
Are you sitting on the tip of your chair? Then chances are that we’ll be a great fit for each other . Here are some more pointers:
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You (obviously) have a strong experience in Javascript (Typescript) and React and have an understanding of Node.js
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You have a proven track record in connections with AWS S3 and serverless Postgres databases (like Supabase or Neon)
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You can show us examples of previous work in image conversions via Next.js
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You have experience with developing API’s (GraphQL or Rest)
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You have a thorough insight in how web applications work (including security and session management), and in network protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, TCP/IP) and architecture
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Your heart beat rises - and you have a strong experience - when we ask you about AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Open Code, Codex, Antigravity, etc.
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You would get a bonus point if you have worked with data/product analytics using Posthog
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You get a kick out of getting to the core of a problem and swiftly finding elegant and creative solutions
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You can organize your work like a boss and work within the constraints of timelines and budgets. Fast paced environment, remember
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You are not scared of taking ownership for the technical side of our start-up
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You are great in working together constructively with colleagues
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You love learning, keeping your knowledge state of the art and trying out new stuff
What your month could look like
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Nespresso to start the week while checking the weekend monitoring reports
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Reporting past week’s accomplishments and this week’s planning during the weekly all-hands meeting
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Bug fixing the platform and implementing the enhancements that you prepared last week.
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Building a brand new SaaS-tool for travel marketeers that includes AI image recognition & search, a loyalty reward system, SaaS subscription model, payment implementation, etc.
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Booking your tickets for the Future Travel Summit in Barcelona to join the team for a 3-day trip mixing innovation & tech talks during the day with team pleasure in the evenings
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Brainstorming with the team to create a detailed functional analysis of a brand new section on the platform.
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Logging off at 1pm on a thursday for a fun teambuilding activity somewhere in between Brussels-Antwerp-Hasselt.