Senior Software Engineer - Rockhopper Squad

Triptease; España; A distancia; EUR 50.000 - 70.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A travel tech company is seeking a backend engineer to develop and maintain its pricing intelligence systems. This remote-friendly role involves building scalable backend services and collaborating with cross-functional teams to empower hotels with pricing data. Applicants should have experience in TypeScript, Node.js, and cloud platforms like Google Cloud.

Servicios

Remote-friendly and flexible work

Paid vacation

Yearly learning allowance

Paid training and conferences

Monthly wellness budget

Formación

• Experience with backend services and integrations.
• Strong knowledge of continuous delivery practices.
• Comfortable with pair programming.

Responsabilidades

• Build and maintain backend services at scale.
• Collaborate with product managers to develop solutions.
• Implement pricing data collection systems.

Conocimientos

Collaborative

Open-mindedness

Experience with distributed systems

Proficient in TypeScript

Knowledge of A/B testing

Herramientas

Node.js

React

Google Cloud Platform

Docker

Terraform

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Join Triptease — Where Travel Tech Meets Impact

At Triptease, we’re building technology that helps hotels thrive in a digital world dominated by Online Travel Agents. Our products empower hotels to increase direct bookings, regain profitability, and build closer relationships with their guests.

Already helping generate over £1 billion in direct revenue annually, we’re scaling fast across 100+ countries with offices in London, New York, Barcelona, and Singapore. It’s a fantastic time to join us as we grow our impact and expand our engineering teams.

About the Role

We’re a team that values authenticity, ownership, inclusion, and delivering meaningful work — together.

The Team

• You will be working in a squad of 6 engineers, 1 product manager, and 1 designer responsible for building, growing and maintaining different parts of the Triptease stack.
• We have both frontend and backend components, with a strong lean towards backend.
• All our teams are small, empowered and autonomous: we own the strategy and actions we need to take to be successful.
• We embrace honest and open discussion. We truly value collaboration and are invested in maintaining a team that encourages everyone to contribute.
• We run daily standups, weekly planning and frequent retros and feedback sessions.
• We embrace pair programming the vast majority of the time.
• We practice trunk based development and continuous delivery.
• On Wednesdays, we join the rest of the company to showcase what we’ve accomplished and share our pride in the work we have done with our colleagues.

About the Rockhopper Squad

Rockhopper owns Triptease’s modern pricing intelligence and connectivity infrastructure, and is responsible for maintaining the pricing promotion engine known as Price Match. We design and operate systems and data pipelines that support large-scale web scraping and pricing data collection. Our mission is to empower hotels with pricing data and the tools to compete against OTAs on price.

Day to day we build backend services, integrations with booking engines and Google Travel, and features within Parity Monitoring that give hoteliers accurate, actionable pricing insights.

Our main challenges stay ahead of the fast-changing Google ecosystem and ensuring that we have an accurate and reliable pricing data feed. We value collaboration, continuous learning, autonomy and product thinking. Every engineer has a point-of-view and shares it, contributing ideas and helping shape the squad’s direction, not just writing code.

Our Tech Stack

• Languages: TypeScript (primarily)
• Backend: Node.js
• Frontend: React
• Infrastructure: Google Cloud Services, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloudflare, Docker
• Data: BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Spanner
• Integrations: Google Travel API, various booking engine APIs
• CI: GitHub Actions

We frequently work together with other squads; all squads use a similar stack which is great for building up expertise and having other engineers to support you.

What You’ll Bring

• You are collaborative, open-minded, and looking to continue to develop your craft.
• You are comfortable with pair programming all day.
• You form insightful product opinions and proactively share these with the team.
• You are experienced in writing distributed, high availability, high throughput systems maintaining data consistency.
• You are proud of the code you produce; it’s obvious, concise and rarely needs to be commented. You always like to leave the code better than you found it, and are experienced with refactoring techniques; in fact, it’s how you code every day.
• You see writing tests as an integral part of the development process and understand the benefit of writing code and tests in small increments.
• The applications you build are modular and functional.
• You have excellent skills in developing a solution all the way from client-side through to server-side.
• You love shipping code and seeing how it performs in production and therefore are passionate about delivery pipelines, A/B testing, real-time analytics and monitoring tools like DataDog.
• You are customer-centric and work well with product managers and designers.
• You have expert knowledge at using tests to drive the design of the application.
• You have experience with building deployment pipelines and continuous delivery on cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Terraform and Kubernetes).

Bonus Points for :

• You have an entrepreneurial streak, with some great examples of how you saw an opportunity and made it happen.
• You have experience working in cross-functional teams practising XP and Kanban techniques.
• You have experience in multiple different programming languages and understand the value in bringing ideas from other ecosystems into your current environment.

Perks & Benefits

Remote-friendly and flexible work: We’re a remote-first Product & Engineering team, working across the UK and Europe (London ±1h GMT). You can work from our London office, from home, or a mix of both. We meet regularly in person for team and company events (Madrid trip is a recent example).

What we offer:

• We’re committed to your career development; most of our staff have seen considerable learning and progression. There is space to take dedicated learning time out each week to improve your craft. Triptease will also fund training and conferences if you justify why.
• We offer share options to give all employees a stake in our success.
• Paid vacation (increasing with tenure)
• Work from anywhere: 4 weeks abroad annually (±3 hour time zone)
• Monthly wellness budget – gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you at your best
• Yearly learning allowance – invest in your growth
• Enhanced maternity & paternity leave
• 10 "Discovery Days" per year to explore innovative ideas with colleagues from around the business
• Fun events for Tripteasers – global retreats (e.g., Madrid)
• Equipment to help you do your job

Something important to you that's not on this list? Talk to us!

Our Operating Model & Culture

• We hire people we trust and empower them to choose how they work and how to reach goals. Autonomous squads own their work; there are no centralized Ops or QA teams.
• We believe we are doing a good thing for hotels and guests, and work on a highly scaled platform used by hotels to build direct relationships with customers. Our software operates on over 10k hotels and collects ~30M guest events per day.
• We engage with customers to validate assumptions and test new features. We start with the problem; squads have cross-functional support from CS, Sales, and even hoteliers. Hotel visits and travel research budgets are a plus.
• We care deeply about diversity and inclusion. We have a D&I squad and foster psychological safety. Collaboration is valued and everyone is encouraged to contribute.
• We optimise for learning; regular feedback and reflection; Notion is used for transparency; initiatives include Discovery Days, Field Trips and Product Management Dojos.
• We celebrate progress; Wednesdays are for company-wide demos of what we’ve accomplished.

Triptease is proud to be an equal opportunity employer with an active cross-functional diversity squad. We welcome applications from diverse and non-traditional backgrounds. Applicants will not be discriminated against on the basis of any protected characteristic(s) in terms of the Equality Act (2010).

No external agency support required for this role.

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