Senior Backend Engineer Travel Product
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Job Summary
Our Journey
ShopBack began in 2014 as a late-night spark of inspiration between Henry and Joel not just to build a Cashback platform but to reimagine how brands and consumers connect. As former advertisers they understood the limitations of traditional marketing and saw an opportunity to deliver more value on both sides. That idea quickly turned into action and the first prototype was built over a weekend with the other co-founders. Today ShopBack serves over 50 million users across 13 markets partners with 20000 merchants and powers over half a million transactions daily. Were building The Worlds Most Rewarding Way to Shop and looking for bold driven individuals to join us.
About the Role
At ShopBack our engineering teams build scalable and operable platforms serving eCommerce and travel traffic across the region delivering worldclass product experiences. You will join a diverse and talented team of engineers with strong ambitions to redefine how users discover compare and book travel products.
We are now expanding our Travel engineering team and are seeking experienced engineers who have built largescale travel or OTA (Online Travel Agency) systems. If you have worked on flight hotel or activities search platforms pricing engines realtime availability systems or GDS integrations we want to speak with you.
You are someone who is resilient selfdriven and highly motivated. You want to see the impact of your work making a difference every day. You find passion in the craft and are constantly seeking better ways to solve tough problems.
Your Adventure Ahead
- Lead and deliver largescale 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 highimpact travel product features.
- Design and build robust scalable distributed systems capable of handling realtime travel inventory and pricing.
- Architect clean wellstructured 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.
Essentials to Succeed
- 7 years of experience building consumerfacing platforms or distributed backend systems.
- Travel / OTA experience strongly preferred. Ideal candidates have prior experience working within the travel or OTA ecosystem such as flight metasearch hotel aggregation activity marketplaces travel content platforms or GDS/LCC/API integrations and understand the complexities of pricing availability and supplier systems.
- Experience with flight or hotel domains is a strong advantage: availability fare rules rates & inventory ranking/relevance caching strategy or booking orchestration.
- Hands-on experience working with (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
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems or a related technical field
Technologies We Use & Love
- Cloud: AWS
- Infra: Kubernetes
- Programming: / TypeScript
- Databases: Postgres
- Messaging: Kafka SQS
- CI/CD: GitLab
- Monitoring: Prometheus Datadog
- Big Data: Redshift Spark S3 Trino Hudi
- Eventing: Knative Eventing
- CDC: Debezium Kafka Connect
- Communication & Tools: Slack JIRA Confluence
ShopBackers DNA
Grit -We tackle all challenges head-on working together to solve problems and achieve success.
Hunger- We value hard work and having relentless drive.
Speed -We move fast and have a bias for action all to deliver maximum impact.
Impact -We focus on results always aiming for the best possible outcomes and timelines.
Growth -We embrace a growth mindset constantly striving to learn improve and excel in our roles.
Exclusively for ShopBackers
Career progression pathsand opportunities to take on greater challenges that help you realise your ambitions.
Be part of a winning teamon a journey to global scale.
Competitive compensationbased on your performance.
Candid open and collaborative culturewhere feedback is valued for everyone to grow and improve every day.
Work-From-Anywhere benefitto enable you to thrive personally and professionally.
ShopBack is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sexual orientation national origin age disability genetic information veteran status or any other protected status under applicable laws. Join our team and help us make a difference!
We are committed to protecting your data and ensuring fairness in our recruitment process. We may use automated tools including AI to help our team screen applications match candidates to roles generate interview notes and review assessments. These tools assist our recruiters and interviewers and they do not make final hiring decisions. If an assessment is part of your process we may (with your consent) capture screen activity and/or webcam images during the test to help verify test integrity. We do not use AI to infer your emotions or sensitive traits. We process personal data lawfully securely and transparently in line with applicable data-protection laws and our commitment to fair employment. You can ask questions or exercise your rights including to request human review or to challenge an outcome by contactingemailprotected.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
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