Senior Backend Engineer - Travel Product

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; Node.js (preferred); AWS (highly desirable)

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