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