Backend Engineer
Who am I?
- Current job Scala Engineer at Vrbo (EG)
- My career & me
- Mostly backend Engineer
- ~ 4 year as Scala Engineer
- ~ 4 years as Java Engineer
- >1 year of motherhood
- Mostly backend Engineer
Scala & Java
Programming languages mainly used to build backend features
Backend Engineer work
- Work that users can't directly see
- Add an item to a shopping cart
- Call to an external service (e.g. delivery service)
- Very important for a business
Why is it important? I
- Implement the functionality of the business, aka, business logic
- Store safely the information
- Manage that information to follow a process/workflow
- Send information to other services
- Call to other services to gather information
Why is it important? II
- A business need to compete with other similar business. Therefore we want to have:
- Good performance
- Good reliability
- Be the most of the time available
A Vrbo Use Case
Google Hotels Ads
What this project is about?
- Send information to Google so it get displayed in Google so you can directly search in their website
- Information sent:
General information about the Vacation Rental, Prices, availability, user reviews
Backend Engineer