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As a profitable fintech with a $70M revenue/yr and new carrier partnerships, we’re entering a new stage of growth-significant expansion of our loyalty engine.\nWe’re seeking a flights focused full-stack or backend engineer to help scale our flight routing & booking engine. This includes working with airline loyalty programs to build our partnerships out for flight search and booking. You will be joining our resident flights expert in shaping the Flights & Loyalty team.\nHelp us tackle this $3.2T opportunity to innovate in the true super-premium market since the inception of rewards credit cards.\nInterview Process\nCandidates must be able to travel to San Francisco, New York, Chicago, or Austin for an onsite interview. All required travel will be paid for by Taekus.\nYour Responsibilities\nDriving Core Feature Delivery: Taking ownership of major feature releases across the entire flight booking funnel, from flight search to booking creation and post-booking fulfillment.\n\nBuilding logic for award ticket inventory pricing & point transferring to our partners.\n\nIntegrating with external airlines and GDS partners and navigating their complex communication protocols and data schemas.\n\nWhat You Bring to the Table\n6+ years of engineering experience, most recently writing production-grade Python\n\nExperience with GDS systems, such as Amadeus or Sabre\n\nTechnical experience in: Python / Django, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, AWS.\n\nYou’re into credit card points/travel hacking and book yourself many flights with points - and you can play all those pesky airline rewards search engines like an instrument.\n\nYou’ve considered building your own flight inventory scrapers, have multiple credit cards, and have history with FlyerTalk\n\nYou'd Love This Job If\nYou want to be in a scaling startup that is experiencing exponential growth.\n\nYou’re excited by building foundational work and enjoy making an impact.\n\nTraveling is in your DNA and you get to apply your passion into your work.\n\nYou thrive in growing high-caliber teams and want to influence both technical and strategic direction.\n\nAbout Taekus\nTaekus is a 6-year-old luxury financial services company offering premium checking, credit, and debit accounts-paired with an exclusive travel rewards ecosystem. We serve an affluent, global customer base that expects excellence in both experience and execution. 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