Zurich

Zurich Engineering

Our office in Zurich is the birthplace of GetYourGuide and second biggest office next to the headquarters in Berlin. It’s home to a rapidly growing team of roughly 25 developers - almost one third of our engineering organization - whose work focuses on backend systems and infrastructure.

Office to inspire

In November 2017, we moved into our new office at Stampfenbachplatz (3min from the main station). The interior was designed to foster an engaging and collaborative environment empowering us to build a digital platform for travel experiences that customers will love.

Features in Zurich

Focus and time out spaces

Experimentation culture

Git workshop and internal lectures

Mountains and the great outdoors

Born at ETH

Everything started back in 2007 with a venture challenge course at ETH Zurich. Johannes, Tao and Pascal created the first business plan for GetYourGuide. Shortly after, Martin and Tobias joined and built the first prototype. This was just the beginning of an amazing journey. We’ve spent eight years in Technopark and recently moved back to the city center, just around the corner from where we were founded. We interact with student organizations from ETH and offer internships on a regular basis:

ETH Entrepreneur Club
VIS - Verein der Informatik Studierenden
ETH Internships (see blog post from Marilou Beyeler)

Driving Change: Road Trip to Secure Code

From project counts to granularity, Senior Security Engineer Philipp Sieber discusses the pros and cons of Snyk Code, and how the developer security platform fits GetYourGuide’s Shift Left approach.

Sharing the How, Why, and When of Database Engine Migration

Senior Backend Engineer Maggie Slukova recently led the Catalog team in migrating one of their databases to PostgreSQL. From hidden benefits to the value of deadlines, here’s what she learned.