WhereTo is a business travel startup from San Francisco that evolved into an agile development and design studio within the Flight Centre family. We build travel solutions used by some of the largest companies on the planet - we have just one goal: making business travel better for everybody.
WhereTo provides an AI-powered travel platform for corporate travel. Their platform uses machine learning algorithms to recommend personalized travel options based on a traveler's preferences, company policies, and budget. WhereTo's technology also allows for real-time travel tracking, reporting, and cost analysis, enabling companies to optimize their travel programs and reduce costs.
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About The Opportunity
WhereTo (now part of Flight Centre Travel Group) is looking for a passionate, motivated and skilled Back End Engineer to join our growing Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to be an integral part of the team leading the return to travel and work with some of the largest and most powerful travel programs in the world. We are looking for a self-motivated team player who is also willing to mentor others and contribute to our culture of engineering and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
• As a Back-End Engineer with WhereTo, you will be responsible for creating high quality user-focused software while working in a cross-disciplinary fast-moving team.
• You will partner with product-leaders to shape the future of the platform
• You will help define, implement, and reinforce architectural and implementation best practices
• You will build pipelines that handle billions of transactions per day
• Strong knowledge of asynchronous I/O. Typed JavaScript and horizontal scalability
Requirements
• 6+ years of professional software development experience (internships and personal projects not included)
• 2+ years experience with Node.js
• Experience with building and architecting high quality software from scratch
• Strong JavaScript skills (ES6, Babel) – experience with TypeScript and/or FlowType is a bonus
• Strong understanding of asynchronous I/O
• Excellent software architecture skills and a passion for maintainable, organized code
• Experienced with AWS, EC3, S3, RDS, CloudFront/CDNs
• Expert with Linux, Ubuntu/Debian (Bash scripting a plus)
• Experience with CI platforms (Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis, etc)
• Experience with REST-based Web Service API implementation
• Experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL (or similar) and understanding of how they work internally
• Experience with Algorithms and Data Structures
• Experience with NoSQL databases is desirable (i.e MongoDB, Cassandra)
• Experience with memory cache systems (Redis, Memcached)
• Experience with other systems programming languages is a bonus (Go, C/C++, Rust, etc), and/or scripting languages (Python) and/or JVM-based languages (Scala, Java, Groovy)
• Experience with pure functional programming and/or functional programming libraries and concepts is a bonus (Haskell, Scala, F#, Ramda, Lo-Dash FP, etc)
• Strong experience in designing and implementing highly horizontally-scalable architecture
• Strong understanding of Git fundamentals
Benefits Include:
• Paid Time Off *
• Up to 15 Vacation Days accrued per year - prorated upon hire and increased by tenure after 2 years of employment (up to 25 days)
• 5 Sick Days accrued per year
• 3 Personal Days
• 1 Diversity Day
• 1 Volunteer Day
• 8 Recognized Holidays
• Travel perks/discounts
• Health & Wellness Programs and Employee Financial Wellness Services
• National/International Award Nights and Conferences
• Health benefits including, medical, dental, vision, gender affirming care, and fertility care
• Insurance including hospital indemnity, AD&D, critical illness, long-term and short-term disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401k program with partial match
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Employee Share Plan – Ability to purchase company stock on Australian Stock Exchange with partial company match, subject to terms and conditions
• Global career opportunities in a network of brands and businesses
• Vacation, Personal, and Sick time accrual rates will vary based on full-time or part-time employee status. Recognized Holidays are either paid time off or, if required to work due to job requirements, holiday pay rate, and may vary depending on state.
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Location – Remote, USA
If this sounds like the opportunity you have been waiting for then APPLY NOW.
This role can be performed onsite or on a hybrid schedule, in compliance with the Company’s Remote and Flexible Work Policy.
For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of $112,000 - $150,000. Base salary is dependent on relevant factors, including experience, geographic location, and job requirements.
Our number one philosophy? Our people. Flight Center Travel Group USA’s promise is to provide an environment with equality of respect, dignity and opportunity for all our employees. We value an inclusive and supportive workplace which truly reflects the diversity of our society.
We are an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer committed to providing a barrier-free pathway throughout our recruitment process. We welcome accommodation requests to help make our hiring and onboarding experience as accessible as possible. Please advise us about accommodation needs at any point by contacting our Recruitment Team at careers@us.flightcentre.com
