Software Engineer, Back End

Who We Are
SmarterTravel is a high-growth, data-driven tech company that is on a mission to revolutionize the $1 trillion travel and leisure industry. By leveraging AI and machine learning, we are building a consumer-centric online travel experience that will offer both breadth of selection and personalized recommendations, allowing travelers to book with ease, confidence, and speed. Our goal is not just to be the next great traveltech company, but to be the destination that smart travelers go back to time and time again to book their trips.
Position Purpose
The product engineering team's mission is to deliver and maintain software solutions that drive revenue and improve the traveler experience provided by SmarterTravel products. As a key team member, this person will ensure site stability as traffic increases along with our revenue goals. We're looking for a skilled back-end developer to join our team of creators who are consistently raising the bar for user experience. Working behind the scenes, the ideal candidate will have a unique blend of technical expertise, insatiable curiosity, and analytical mindset. This person should be comfortable working independently as well as with a team in the design and development of mission-critical websites, applications, and layers of infrastructure.
Role & Responsibility

• Collaborate with product managers, stakeholders, designers, and other engineers to plan, build, iterate, and ship new features on our React-fronted, FastAPI (Python) backed site.
• Drive full stack software engineering best practices, such as automated testing, CI/CD and documentation with a focus on maintainability, usability, scalability and performance.
• Follow SmarterTravel's development and operational standards and processes and strive to make them better.
• Create documentation for successful knowledge transfer and onboarding of new employees.
• Guide, support and mentor junior developers on modern software development procedures and methods.
• Constantly push yourself to be a better engineer and to level up all of your peers within your team and the company as a whole.
• Proactively, consistently and honestly communicate with stakeholders to avoid missteps and anticipate needs.
• Implement well-defined features with good test coverage and peer reviews.
• Provide required assistance and troubleshoot production. As needed, potentially subject to on-call responsibilities.

Education/Experience

• 4+ years of relevant work experience, especially in full-stack web development.
• Experience leading a project(s) from start to finish
• A passion for personal growth and a demonstrated ability to learn quickly.
• Experience with the technologies commonly used in our environment is required: Python, GO, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, SQL, Redis, Git
• Extra credit if you have experience with or be ready to learn: Chatbots, Headless CMS architecture (GatsbyJS), FastAPI Docker, Kubernetes, Akamai, AWS, NLU/NLP

Compensation & Benefits
Our team members are the foundation of our company, and we believe in providing benefits that support the well-being of both our employees and their families:

• Competitive pay
• Insurance benefits, including medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Company events including catered lunches, and unlimited snacks, drinks in the office
• Basic life insurance

Work Location
SmarterTravel has adopted a hybrid working model combining in-office and virtual work.
SmarterTravel is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.