Senior Backend Engineer - Travel Product

Your Adventure Ahead

• Lead and deliver large-scale travel platform components such as flight/hotel search, pricing/availability aggregation, booking flows, or content systems.
• Contribute to ideation, technical design, implementation, and testing of high-impact travel product features.
• Design and build robust, scalable distributed systems capable of handling real-time travel inventory and pricing.
• Architect clean, well-structured APIs used by client applications for search, booking, and trip management.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Data, and UX teams to shape the future of the ShopBack Travel experience.
• Work with external partners (OTAs, GDS, suppliers) to integrate APIs, understand domain constraints, and improve reliability.
• Drive engineering best practices, mentor other engineers, and elevate technical standards within the team.
• Analyze complex requirements, propose pragmatic solutions, and articulate trade-offs clearly.

Essentials to Succeed

• 7+ years of experience building consumer-facing platforms or distributed backend systems.
• Travel / OTA experience strongly preferred. Ideal candidates have prior experience working within the travel or OTA ecosystem - such as flight metasearch, hotel aggregation, activity marketplaces, travel content platforms, or GDS/LCC/API integrations - and understand the complexities of pricing, availability, and supplier systems.
• Experience with flight or hotel domains is a strong advantage: availability, fare rules, rates & inventory, ranking/relevance, caching strategy, or booking orchestration.
• Hands-on experience working with Node.js (preferred) or other backend technologies.
• Experience deploying applications into cloud environments (AWS highly desirable).
• Strong understanding of API design, microservices, and event-driven architecture.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, complex technical environment with high ambiguity.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and third-party partners.
• Demonstrated use of Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude) to develop new or improve workflows, enhance productivity, and drive efficiency at scale
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field

Technologies We Use & Love

• Cloud: AWS
• Infra: Kubernetes
• Programming languages: NodeJS / Typescript
• Relational database: Postgres
• Message queue: Kafka, SQS
• Continuous Integration: Gitlab
• Monitoring: DataDog
• Big Data: Redshift, Spark, S3, etc.
• Communication: Slack
• Project Management: JIRA / Confluence
• Other technologies:
• Knative Eventing / Serving
• Debezium + Kafka Connect