Software Engineer

VistaLink; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

VistaLink is building the software that powers travel platforms, reading rates directly from hotel sites and enabling bookings via a white-label API. The team is responsible for both building and running the software, with a strong emphasis on reliability and end-to-end ownership.

You will develop browser automation to collect rates and complete bookings, design data pipelines to turn raw rates into searchable data, and ship features across the stack.

Qualifications

• Three to six years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong in Python or TypeScript; some services in Go.

Responsibilities

• Build and run browser automation to collect rates and complete bookings on hotel sites, using Playwright and Puppeteer.
• Keep automation reliable through anti-bot measures, site redesigns and flaky sites.
• Create pipelines that turn raw rates into clean data for searching.
• Ship features across the stack, from partner API to internal tools.
• Own production work, fixing issues when they arise.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Go

Browser automation

Web scraping

API design

Data pipelines

Production ownership

Job description

Travellers are starting to hand the search to software. VistaLink builds what that software runs on: rates read straight off hotels' own websites, and bookings made on those same sites. Travel platforms use it through a white-label API, and hotels work with us directly.

There's no platform team to hand things over to. What you build, you also run, and you'll have a real say in how it's built.

What you'll do

• Build and run the browser automation that collects rates and completes bookings on hotel websites, mostly with Playwright and Puppeteer.
• Keep it reliable through anti-bot measures, redesigns and sites that are just flaky.
• Build the pipelines that turn raw rates into clean, fresh data we can search.
• Ship features anywhere in the stack, from the partner API to internal tools.
• Own your work in production, which includes fixing it when it breaks.

What we're looking for

• Roughly three to six years of professional software engineering.
• Strong in Python or TypeScript and happy working in both. Some of our services are in Go.
• Real experience with browser automation or scraping at scale.
• Comfortable designing APIs and data pipelines.
• You can take a loose problem, scope it and ship it without hand-holding.

Nice to have

• Go in production
• Travel, booking or payments systems
• LLMs in a real product
• Early-stage startup experience