Travel Tech Software Engineer - Big Data Equity

Roberts Recruiting, LLC; Cambridge (MA); On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading travel technology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts is seeking a Software Engineer to join their dynamic team. The role involves working on mobile apps, backend microservices, and data processing. Candidates should be driven and eager to learn new technologies. The company offers competitive compensation, including equity in a growth-stage startup.

Qualifications

• Recent graduates or experienced engineers welcome.
• Fundamental requirement is a drive to learn.
• Ability to design and write beautiful, efficient, maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Join a growing team of engineers to deliver impactful products.
• Collaborate directly with product teams on feature development.
• Work with large datasets and distributed systems.

Skills

Drive to learn

Collaborative problem-solving

Experience with distributed systems

Proficiency in multiple programming languages

Tools

RxJava

ReactiveSwift

Scala

Apache Spark

Kubernetes

AngularJS

Job description

We are a new kind of travel company that is reinventing the way people plan travel and book flights by leveraging the power of mobile conversation and big data in the form of trillions of flight prices. Today, we are one of the fastest growing travel apps ever, with over 10 million installs since our launch in 2015, and behind it all is a team of 40-some passionate developers, designers, data scientists, growth hackers, creatives, travel junkies — and one dog.

As aSoftware Engineeryou'll be part of a growing team of Engineers and Product Designers with big ambitions: delivering a delightful and powerful product that empowers travellers. We’re always looking for driven, versatile, autonomous yet collaborative engineers to help us build great things throughout our stack, which includes:

• Join a team that's won Apple's App Store Best of 2015 and Google Play's Best Apps of 2016
• Leverage RxJava and ReactiveSwift to write immutable and typesafe code
• Collaborate directly with the product team to prototype and test experimental features
• Work with distributed systems and write RESTful Scala-based microservices using Finagle
• Interface with large, distributed no-SQL databases

Data Processing and Analysis

• Work with Apache Spark (python and Scala) to analyse trillions of data points
• Work on pipelines ingesting billions of data points daily with Kafka and Spark Streaming
• Build novel, often very large databases to support new app features

Monitoring and Operations

• Work on ourservice monitoring and orchestration using Mesos and Kubernetes
• Help manage ourown datacenters using Ansible

All of the Above?

• Not sure what you’d work on? Don’t worry! When you join, we’ll figure out the best fit which may very well be working on all of these

REQUIREMENTS

We're looking for engineers of diverse backgrounds, from recent graduates to engineers with years of experience building distributed systems. Our fundamental requirements are a drive to learn and a shared engineering philosophy:

• Design and write beautiful code: simple, testable, efficient and maintainable
• Learn new languages, technologies and frameworks from one project to the next
• Collaborate with others to solve tough technical and product problems

BENEFITS

Compensation will be competitiveincluding equity in a growth-stage startup backed by top-tier VCs

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.