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The proprietary technology platform aims to simplify the demands of the complex world of global travel by seamlessly connecting the highly distributed travel buyers and travel suppliers at scale.\n\nThe TBO journey began in 2006 with a simple goal – to address the evolving needs of travel buyers and suppliers, and what started off as a single product air ticketing company, has today become the leading B2A (Business to Agents) travel portal across the Americas, UK & Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, and Asia Pacific.\n\nToday, TBO's product range from air, hotels, rail, holiday packages, car rentals, transfers, sightseeing, cruise, and cargo. Apart from these products, our proprietary platform relies heavily on AI/ML to offer unique listings and products, meeting specific requirements put forth by customers, thus increasing conversions.\n\nTBO's approach has always been technology-first and we continue to invest on new innovations and new offerings to make travel easy and simple. TBO's travel APIs are serving large travel ecosystems across the world while the modular architecture of the platform enables new travel products while expanding across new geographies.\n\nWhy TBO:\n\nYou will influence & contribute to Building World Largest Technology Led Travel Distribution Network for a $ 9 Trillion global travel business market.\nWe are the emerging leaders in technology led end-to-end travel management, in the B2B space.\nPhysical Presence in 47 countries with business in 110 countries.\nWe are reputed for our-long lasting trusted relationships. We stand by our eco system of suppliers and buyers to service the end customer.\nAn open & informal start-up environment which cares.\n\nWhat TBO offers to a Life Traveller in You:\n\nEnhance Your Leadership Acumen. Join the journey to create global scale and World Best.\nChallenge Yourself to do something path breaking. Be Empowered. The only thing to stop you will be your imagination.\nPost pandemic: travel space is likely to see significant growth. Witness and shape this space. It will be one exciting journey.\nAs a fastest growing B2B platform our priority is purpose-building scalable systems.\nAdopting industry leading technologies to support best-in-class business capabilities for high performing and scalable solutions.\nFast response to the evolving regulatory environment and helping to meet the firm's regulatory commitments by addressing internal and external commitments.\n\nTop Sights During Your Role Stay (Key Expectations):\n\nWe are building an AI-native travel platform for our travel advisors and partners hence we are looking for a highly entrepreneurial AI product builder with a Computer Science background from a premier engineering institute, who can take end-to-end ownership of the product's technical foundation and work directly with the business.\n\nStrong programming experience with good grasp of scalability and performance\nStrong full stack engineering skills\nHands-on experience with LLM-based applications\nDesign the end-to-end architecture of the AI-native platform.\nTranslate customer and advisor workflows into AI-driven product experiences.\nBuild systems that understand intent, preferences, and traveller context.\nDesign agentic flows that can search, reason, compare, recommend, trigger actions and determine where AI should automate, assist or hand off to humans.\nExperience with RAG, embeddings, vector search and tool calling\n5 to 8 years of experience building consumer facing platforms.\nThis is IC Role\nStrong grasp of distributed systems and system design.\nHigh degree of ownership\nAbility to pick up and learn new programming languages and frameworks\nStrong problem solving ability and focus on innovation\nPrior experience with serverless technologies is desirable\nExposure to languages/ framworks like GoLang, RUST ,Java,Python, Node\nCapacity to use SQL server with ease. 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