Backend Developer - AI native (m/f/x)

Intro

You don't just want to talk about AI – you want to build with it?
Do you love travelling and extraordinary hotels and are ready to combine your passions?
We believe that AI is currently changing everything about how software is built and evolved. We're looking for someone who shares this conviction – and lives it within the team.
Would you like to be part of an ambitious team in an internationally active company, that offers you attractive benefits and excellent development opportunities?

With us you´re in the right place!

Start your career at Travelcircus as:

Backend Developer - AI native (m/f/x)

from July 2026 on

Your responsibilities

In this role, you’ll take on a key position within our dev team: becoming our in-house expert for AI-supported development and helping elevate the productivity of the entire team. You're the person who flips the switch to AI-powered development inside our IT team – through your own work, through tooling, through knowledge transfer.

Things you will work on

• You build with AI as a co-worker. Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, agentic workflows – you use the tools that deliver the biggest leverage today, and you actively experiment with what's coming next

• You make others faster. You establish patterns, prompts, MCP integrations and internal skills that make the entire dev team more productive. You document, run hands-on sessions, and create those "aha" moments

• You automate. Hotel onboarding, content enrichment, customer service processes, internal reporting – manual processes are everywhere today that can disappear with the right LLM pipelines

• You ship real code. You contribute to production features, ideally in PHP/JavaScript stacks. AI doesn't replace an understanding of clean code – it amplifies it

What we offer

• FLEXIBLE WORKING HOURS thanks to part-time and flexitime models as well as 2 days remote work a week
• ATTRACTIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT in a stylish loft office with start-up flair, cooking together, fun & cohesion in a varied working environment and regular team events
• TRANSPARENT COMMUNICATION thanks to flat hierarchies, fixed feedback cycles and weekly company and team meetings
• OPTIMAL CAREER OPPORTUNITIES thanks to a comprehensive onboarding program and individual induction, continuous on-the-job training, optimal promotion and further development opportunities
• ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION & DISCOUNT on the BVG company ticket (local public transport) and discounts with over 800 other providers
• PERSONAL TRAVEL BUDGET of €1080 per year to spend freely on our entire product portfolio
• WORK LIFE BALANCE with 28 vacation days, increasing per year of service, with up to 35 days of vacation entitlement as well as company health management and a pension plan

Your profile

• At least three years of experience as a backend developer with productive code output (Frontend experience would be a nice to have)

• You use current LLMs and AI tools in your daily life and improve your own workflows

• A strong interest in AI tools and their application in the development process

• Understanding of prompt engineering, context management, tool use, RAG from a hands-on practice

• You understand modern software architectures and design principles.

• C lean code, maintainability, and good teamwork are very important to you.

• You have very good German and/ or English skills (C1 level)

• A university degree in computer science or a comparable field rounds off your profile

Do you still have questions or do you want to apply immediately?

If you want to develop yourself further and take on responsibility, then you've come to the right place. Please send us your application, including your salary expectations and your earliest possible start date , exclusively via our online application system.

Our People Manager will be happy to answer any questions you may have:

Katharina Müllers
recruiting@ travelcircus.de
+49 (0) 157 5099 9587

Team Travelcircus

Over the past few years, Travelcircus has developed into an international company with over 100 highly motivated and committed employees who form the basis of our success. If you would like to get to know our team, then take a look at our Instagram Career page - there you will get a first impression of your future colleagues.

We expressly declare that we welcome everyone, regardless of gender, nationality or ethnic origin, religion or ideology, disability, age or sexual identity.

We look forward to meeting you!

About us

Travelcircus, the online booking platform for event travel experiences, was founded by Bastian Böckenhüser in Berlin in 2014. By combining internationally popular events (e.g. theme parks, musicals, exhibitions or concerts) with quality-tested premium hotels, Travelcircus puts together unique packages at attractive prices for its customers. Over 1 million travellers have trusted us since the company was founded.

Since the beginning of 2022, Travelcircus has entered other European markets in addition to the DACH markets. Dutch, Belgian, French, Italian, Spanish, Danish and British travellers can now also book the unique packages. Through the Travelking brand acquired in September 2022, Travelcircus is also represented in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. True to the motto ‘by travellers for travellers’, the Travelcircus team shares a common vision of presenting the hottest events and most sought-after weekend destinations to travel enthusiasts online at the best value for money.