Lead Software Engineer – Travel Tech
2 weeks ago
Lead Software Engineer – Travel Tech (Backend)
Remote | Full-Time | Build the future of corporate travel
About Travellez
Travellez is an intelligent corporate travel platform bringing flights, hotels, car rentals, payments, policy controls, and automation into one unified experience. Our platform is already built and launching, now we are focused on scaling, performance, reliability, and enterprise readiness as we grow globally.
If you've worked in travel tech, you know travel is not "normal SaaS."
High transaction volume, real-time inventory, volatile supplier APIs, complex ticketing rules, and zero tolerance for downtime.
That's the engineering challenge here.
Role Overview
We are hiring a Lead Backend Engineer with real travel-tech experience to own, evolve, and scale our production travel platform.
This is a hands-on leadership role focused on stability, performance, resilience, and continuous improvement, not building from scratch.
You will work closely with founders and engineering to ensure Travellez remains fast, reliable, secure, and scalable as we onboard enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve backend architecture for scale and global growth
- Optimize flight & hotel search, pricing, booking, ticketing, and post-ticketing workflows
- Strengthen integrations with GDS / NDC / airline / hotel / rail APIs
- (Sabre, Amadeus, Travelport, Duffel, Mystifly, Travelgate, etc.)
- Improve platform reliability, resilience, failover, and observability
- Implement caching, queueing, retries, fallback routing, and rate-limiting strategies
- Enhance payments, policy engine, user management, and system security
- Lead engineering best practices CI/CD, monitoring, logging, testing
- Mentor engineers and help shape strong engineering culture
- Collaborate with leadership on architecture & product direction
Required Qualifications
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, system design)
- Expert backend engineering skills using Java / Python / Node / Go
- Proven experience building high-availability, high-transaction platforms
Travel-tech experience is required, including at least one of:
- GDS / NDC / Airline systems
- OTA / Corporate travel platforms
- Hotel / rail booking systems
- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, queues & caching
- Strong production reliability mindset (performance tuning, monitoring, SLAs)
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers
Preferred Experience (Nice to Have)
Bonus points for experience with:
- Travel Tech (GDS, NDC, hotel/flight APIs, rail)
- Payments, billing, fraud, or financial systems
- Large-scale transactional platforms
- Knowledge of PNR lifecycle, ticketing, exchanges & refunds
- Experience with payments / VCC / reconciliation
- AWS/GCP, DevOps, CI/CD experience
Why Join Travellez
- Work on real travel infrastructure not just CRUD SaaS
- Platform already built focus on scaling, excellence, reliability
- Massive ownership and meaningful impact
- Remote-first culture
- Competitive compensation + meaningful equity
Important
This role requires real travel-tech experience.
Candidates without GDS / NDC / airline / hotel / booking systems experience will not be considered.
Location
Remote - open to global candidates
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $70,000.00-$85,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Stock options
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Oakville, ON
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