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Our flagship product is an AI corporate travel agent that lives directly in Slack and Microsoft Teams, helping enterprises book and manage travel faster and more intelligently while integrating with their existing policies, systems, and travel management companies.\nNow part of the Amadeus family, SkyLink is building the next generation of AI-powered travel products for companies and travelers worldwide. We are backed by Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator, Human Capital, and Fortune 50 executives, with advisors including former CEOs of leading global travel companies.\nAbout the Role\nWe’re looking for a senior software engineer with deep frontend expertise to help build the best-in-class AI travel management platform.\nYou will lead the development of SkyLink’s web experience, creating a seamless extension of our AI agent across Slack, Microsoft Teams, and the browser. Travelers will be able to begin a trip in chat and move naturally into rich web/mobile interfaces when needed-or start directly on the web.\nYou will build intuitive traveler experiences, operational tools for travel management companies, and administrative dashboards for corporate customers. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience building polished, user-friendly frontends while also understanding the APIs, data models, and workflows that power them.\nA Great Fit\n5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building complex frontend applications in React and TypeScript\n\nHas built polished, responsive, and performant user experiences for nuanced workflows\n\nIs comfortable working across the stack, from UI components and application state to APIs and relational data models\n\nCan understand complex orchestration and translate backend workflows into simple, intuitive user experiences\n\nThinks critically about product and design rather than simply implementing mocks\n\nProactively identifies ways to simplify workflows, reduce engineering effort, and improve maintainability\n\nIs scrappy, knows how to ship, and values progress over perfection\n\nHas strong software design, security, testing, and relational database fundamentals\n\nWants to set, maintain, and adhere to high engineering standards across testing, documentation, code review, and architecture\n\nEnjoys using the latest AI coding tools and development harnesses to build production systems\n\nWants ownership and autonomy in a role that will accelerate their professional and personal growth\n\nYou Will\nBuild SkyLink’s web-based traveler experience, including flight and hotel search, comparison, booking, trip management, rebooking, and cancellation\n\nCreate seamless handoffs between SkyLink’s Slack and Microsoft Teams experiences and richer web interfaces\n\nBuild dashboards and operational tools for corporate travel administrators and travel management companies\n\nDevelop reusable frontend components for complex travel content, including itineraries, fares, policies, approvals, traveler profiles, and booking workflows\n\nWork closely with product and design to challenge unnecessary complexity and propose simpler, more scalable solutions\n\nUnderstand SkyLink’s orchestration, APIs, and data models to design frontend systems that accurately represent complex travel workflows\n\nDesign and implement APIs and database models needed to support new user experiences\n\nImprove frontend performance, reliability, accessibility, observability, and testing\n\nHelp define the architecture and engineering standards for SkyLink’s growing web platform\n\nWork directly with customers and internal teams to understand how travelers and administrators interact with the product\n\nTech Stack\nFrontend: React, TypeScript\n\nBackend: Python, Django, Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL\n\nInfrastructure: AWS, Docker\n\nAbout the interview\nIntroduction zoom chat with a cofounder\nThis is an informal call for us to meet each other and get to know one another. The\nconversation will cover some light technical discussion about your past projects and\nyour ability to code and build fairly involved systems. We would like to hear details\nabout those projects and both your product and technical decisions (good or bad)\nwhich show ownership and autonomy. We also want to understand what you are\nlooking for in your next role and why you are interested in early-stage companies. You will get to ask us about the role and learn about what working at SkyLink will feel like.\nTwo technical interviews\nThese technical interviews will give you an ability to show off your system design and\nbackend programming skills. We will evaluate your ability to critically think, create\ncomplex backends, and scale real world systems.\nSkyLink Hybrid Work Policy\nAt SkyLink, we value in-person collaboration and have invested in a comfortable office space with amenities such as meal expensing to facilitate teamwork. While we recognize the benefits of working from home, we also prioritize face-to-face interactions.\nOffice Attendance\nEmployees are generally expected to be present in the office 4 days per week.\n\nThis guideline is flexible and can be adjusted based on individual circumstances.\n\nBenefits\nHealthcare\n\nNew laptop of your choice.\n\nPaid lunch and Dinner after 7PM when at the office\n\n401(K) Plan\n\nUnlimited PTO\n\nHybrid in New York City\n\nSkyLink provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. 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