Senior Software Engineer (Travel Tech / Booking Engine) — Remote, LATAM Preferred

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join a fast-growing travel technology company building its own end-to-end booking platform. This is a high-impact, hands-on role where you will help evolve the product from a proposal and itinerary tool into a fully integrated booking engine.

You will work directly with a globally distributed team (India + US), contributing to core product development and bringing real, hands-on expertise in the travel domain and GDS integrations — Amadeus in particular.

This is a new position, created to expand domain expertise inside the engineering team and improve timezone coverage with the U.S.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain integrations with Amadeus APIs (and other GDS systems as the platform expands)

• Develop and enhance a booking engine supporting flights and hotels, with car rental to follow

• Own the reservation lifecycle end-to-end: search and pricing, booking, ticketing, cancellations, changes, refunds

• Handle the hard parts: price and availability changes mid-flow, PNR handling, multi-destination itineraries, room and rate combinations

• Work on backend services and APIs powering travel workflows

• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and QA teams across timezones

• Take ownership of features end-to-end, from design to production

• Ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of integrations and systems

• Contribute to improving engineering practices (code quality, testing, architecture maturity)

Must-Have Requirements

• Hands-on experience building travel products against GDS APIs — not just working near them. Amadeus is the priority; Sabre or Travelport experience is equally welcome

• Demonstrable understanding of the reservation lifecycle: booking flows (air and hotel), ticketing, cancellations, reschedules, refunds and exchanges

• Practical fluency with core distribution concepts (PNR, fare rules, negotiated/private fares, availability and pricing behaviour)

• Solid backend engineering experience (5–10+ years, or equivalent depth — relevance matters more than years)

• Experience building API integrations and distributed systems

• Experience with PHP (Laravel), or strong backend experience in another language with a genuine willingness to work in PHP

• Experience with relational databases (MySQL or similar)

• Resourcefulness: comfortable reading imperfect vendor documentation, running your own investigation when the API doesn't behave as documented, and proposing a path forward instead of waiting

• Ability to work autonomously in a senior IC capacity

Nice to Have

• Exposure to NDC / direct airline distribution

• Experience with Python or other backend languages

• Experience with AWS (or GCP / Azure)

• Exposure to NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB)

• Experience in scaling products or startup environments

• Familiarity with improving CI/CD, testing, and engineering processes

Frontend experience is not required — the team covers that side.

What We're Looking For

• Real domain expertise in travel tech — this is the critical filter

• A product-minded engineer, not a specialist confined to one narrow area: someone who has seen how a booking product fits together

• Someone who understands not just the code, but the business logic and the impact on the traveller and the agent

• Ability to ramp up fast in a complex, niche domain

• Proactive, ownership-driven mindset

• Comfortable in a small, highly collaborative team

• Strong communication skills across distributed teams

Team & Collaboration

• Small engineering team (<10 people) based in India: tech lead, senior developers, and QA

• Direct collaboration with the CTO and product leadership in the U.S. (Miami)

• High level of ownership and direct contribution

Location

• Fully remote

• LATAM preferred, for meaningful overlap with U.S. (Miami) working hours

Why Join

• Build a core booking engine from the ground up

• Work on real-world travel systems with genuine complexity

• Direct exposure to product and business decisions

• High ownership in a growing product