Senior Backend Architect - AI-Powered Travel

Traveloka; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 360,000,000 - 540,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Traveloka is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Travel Activities team. You will design and ship multi-service systems, owning architecture decisions, API contracts, and performance tradeoffs that affect thousands of operators and customers across SEA.

You will mentor engineers, act as senior on-call authority, and influence the roadmap while guiding AI tool usage to accelerate delivery with mitigated risk.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of backend engineering experience.
• Designed a system spanning multiple services from scratch and run in production.
• Owns system-level tradeoffs: consistency, latency, cost.
• Can decompose ambiguous product problems into service architectures.
• Produces clear API contracts and delivery plans.
• Has led a system through scale growth or reliability turnaround.
• Mentors junior to mid-level engineers through reviews and guidance.
• Collaborates with Product to map dependencies and clean API integrations.
• Sets how the team uses AI tools in workflows to speed delivery while guarding risk.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship multi-service systems for Travel Activities, focusing on system-level consistency, latency, and cost.
• Decompose product problems into service architectures and plans that others can execute.
• Set technical standards through rigorous reviews and clean APIs.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and improve team judgment.
• Serve as senior on-call authority to address incidents with durable design.
• Influence engineering roadmap with technical proposals for future work.
• Guide how the team uses AI tools to accelerate delivery responsibly.

Skills

System design

Distributed systems

API contracts

Mentoring

On-call leadership

AI tooling guidance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Traveloka is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Travel Activities team. You will design and ship multi-service systems, owning architecture decisions, API contracts, and performance tradeoffs that affect thousands of operators and customers across SEA.

You will mentor engineers, act as senior on-call authority, and influence the roadmap while guiding AI tool usage to accelerate delivery with mitigated risk.