Senior Software Developer
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Job Description
About Us
G Adventures is the worlds largest smallgroup adventure travel company and weve been making epic travel memories happen on all seven continents for over 30 years.
Our mission is simple: to change lives through travel. And not just our travelers either. Since day one our tours have been built to establish meaningful relationships with local communities directly benefiting the people and places we visit at every step of our tours.
With the demand for travel coming back strong we are set up and excited for this next chapter in our companys story and wed love for you to be a part of it.
Our DNA revolves around building nurturing and developing a diverse culture of people and a true sense of belonging where everyone is encouraged to bring their authentic self to work each and every day. Youll have the opportunity to grow your career and yourself alongside a passionate talented and welcoming community that works hard to spread goodness around the world.
If all that sounds like your kind of thing well we cant wait for you to join us.
About Us
Our team is excited to work at G Adventures because we love tech we love travel and we love changing peoples lives. We enjoy working in an open source environment with the ability to select the right tools for the job. Adventure travel is fun and there are many challenges for curious software engineers with space to disrupt the industry standard. Youll join an environment that is focused on learning and growth. Youll join a team that coordinates heavily with stakeholders both within Technology and externally allowing you to experience working with a wide range of people and ideas.
About the Role
Youll be joining the Tour Systems team within the Technology department at G Adventures. You will help create and improve applications for our Tour Leaders so they can focus more on running great trips! That means writing debugging and deploying software for our Python and Django based applications. Youll work on the tools our Tour Leaders Tour Staff Managers Local Operations Finance and Revenue Management teams use to manage our trips including but not limited to financials trip inventory scheduling reservations and payroll. Youll play a key role in building and maintaining a collection of applications that work in cohesion with other systems such as our API booking engine and financial reporting systems. Youll work in a small remoteled team where communication collaboration empathy and support of each other are key to our success in our peoplefirst culture.
This role reports to the Manager Operational Systems and the role is a hybrid role based out of South Africa where a minimum number of days as set by the region is required in the Cape Town office. Before you apply please consider whether this aligns to your location.
What Youll be Doing
Collaborate with the team to design and launch new features
Write unit tests for the new code that you craft. Improve test coverage follow development standards
Ensure your code is designed with maintainability and scalability in mind; be familiar with PEP8 standards
Nurture the applications and tools through working with stakeholders and understanding their needs and requirements; be serviceoriented
Architect and implement flexible data models that can reflect complex product requirements
Mentor junior team members; take on leadership opportunities
Take responsibility for technical decision making within the team and empower those around you to make strong decisions with a solid foundation; have a strong sense of ownership autonomy
Work with other software teams to improve system communications perfomance and documentation
Desired Skills and Experience
5 years of Python experience
4 years of Django experience
Understanding of the full web stack from server to browser front and backend knowledge
Programming experience in an open source environment
Knowledge of web standards; comfortable with frontend design languages such as HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript and related tech
PostgreSQL familiarity; digging in when addressing performance issues can wrangle SQL queries
A strategic thinker with strong technical and analytical skills
Ability to work both as project lead or project team member in business projects as appropriate
Ability to plan and report development progress. Ability to manage own workload effectively
Excellent communication skills written and verbal. Ability to write documentation clearly and
concisely and to communicate well with nonIT personnel
Interest in emerging technologies; innovative thinker
What do we offer you
Competitive salary commensurate with the role
Competitive benefits package
Birthday day off
Vacation time for you to recharge
Enhanced Parental Leave
Learning and growth opportunities
Employee Resource Groups
*Applicable based on location*
G Adventures is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
