Software Engineer, Flights

Accountabilities • Help scale and evolve the existing flight product from an established production service into reliable, flexible infrastructure that partners can confidently build upon.

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality backend services and APIs that simplify access to flight search, booking, and post-booking functionality. • Make key technical decisions involving API architecture, caching strategies, data models, performance, and system reliability. • Develop efficient caching approaches for flight offers while balancing speed, cost, price accuracy, and availability freshness. • Build and improve booking servicing capabilities, ensuring changes, cancellations, refunds, and other post-booking operations flow consistently across airlines and suppliers. • Support modern airline retailing standards, including New Distribution Capability (NDC) and offer-and-order-based retailing models, while integrating with existing Global Distribution System (GDS) workflows. • Design intuitive, scalable APIs that allow partners such as fintechs, travel platforms, and super-apps to launch flight products without needing extensive airline domain knowledge. • Work closely with a small engineering team, taking ownership of technical solutions and delivering improvements directly into production. • Contribute to the performance, scalability, and resilience of high-traffic systems in a fast-moving, low-process environment.

Requirements:

• At least 8 years of professional software development experience, with deep expertise in backend engineering and API development. • Previous experience in the flight travel domain, such as working for an online travel agency (OTA), airline, GDS provider, distributor, or flight booking platform. • Strong understanding of the end-to-end flight booking lifecycle, including search, booking, and post-booking servicing. • Hands-on experience with New Distribution Capability (NDC) is required. • Practical, recent experience developing with Python in production environments, even if your primary language is another object-oriented language such as Java, Go, or Kotlin. • Strong API design skills and the ability to build scalable, reliable services that simplify complex integrations. • Experience working with distributed systems, caching, and high-volume backend workloads. • A hands-on individual contributor mindset, with a preference for technical ownership rather than people management. • Ability to work independently, make sound technical decisions, and deliver results in an environment with limited process and evolving requirements. • Strong problem-solving skills and an interest in tackling complex technical challenges. • Comfortable working remotely from Europe and collaborating effectively within European time zones.

Additional experience that would be an advantage: