Senior Backend Engineer - System Integration

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.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

7+ years of experience building consumer-facing platforms or distributed backend systems; 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

Nice to have

Travel / OTA experience strongly preferred; Experience with flight or hotel domains is a strong advantage: availability, fare rules, rates & inventory, ranking/relevance, caching strategy, or booking orchestration

Benefits

Career growth opportunities to take on greater challenges that help you realise your ambitions; Be part of a winning team on a journey to global scale; Competitive compensation based on performance; Candid, open, and collaborative culture where feedback is valued