Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

About SkyLink

SkyLink is building AI products for the travel industry, starting with an AI corporate travel agent that lives directly in Slack and Microsoft Teams. We help enterprises make booking and managing travel faster, easier, and more intelligent while integrating with the systems, policies, and travel management companies they already use.

SkyLink is now part of the Amadeus family, and together we are working to deliver the next generation of AI-powered travel products to companies and travelers around the world. We were backed by Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator, Human Capital, and Fortune 50 CEOs. Our board of advisors includes former CEOs of Global Travel companies.

About the role

We’re looking for a senior software engineer to help us build the best-in-class AI travel management platform. An ideal candidate has 5 years of software experience building nuanced technical systems and working in shared, collaborative codebases and environments.

A great fit:

5+ Years of software experience building nuanced technical systems and working in shared, collaborative codebases and environments.

Is scrappy, knows how to ship, and values progress over perfection

Has built scalable systems

Has strong security, relational database, and software design skills

Can manage infrastructure across dev, staging, and production environments

Wants to set, maintain, and adhere to great software engineering standards (comments, testing, documentation, high quality review)

Enjoys using the latest AI coding technologies and harnesses to develop production systems

Wants to deeply understand technical domains and work on large-scale challenges

Wants ownership and autonomy in a role that will supercharge your growth both professionally and personally

You will:

Create Unified Integrations and APIs on top of complex travel systems (Sabre, TravelPort, Amadeus, etc)

Design and implement database models that scale across our various customers and their systems

Implement algorithms to determine ideal travel itineraries for corporate travelers.

Implement travel purchases, rebookings, and cancellations

Integrate our chatbot into email, slack, teams, sms, and any chat platform that may come up

Architect an AI-driven platform to drive travel with LLMs

Maintain and manage AWS infrastructure and internal CI/CD

Tech Stack:

Backend: Python, Django, Celery, Redis, Postgres

Frontend: React, Typescript

Infrastructure: AWS, Docker

About the interview

Introduction zoom chat with a cofounder

This is an informal call for us to meet each other and get to know one another. The

conversation will cover some light technical discussion about your past projects and

your ability to code and build fairly involved systems. We would like to hear details

about those projects and both your product and technical decisions (good or bad)

which show ownership and autonomy. We also want to understand what you are

looking for in your next role and why you are interested in early-stage companies. You will get to ask us about the role and learn about what working at SkyLink will feel like.

Two technical interviews

These technical interviews will give you an ability to show off your system design and

backend programming skills. We will evaluate your ability to critically think, create

complex backends, and scale real world systems.

SkyLink Hybrid Work Policy

At SkyLink, we value in-person collaboration and have invested in a comfortable office space with amenities such as meal expensing to facilitate teamwork. While we recognize the benefits of working from home, we also prioritize face-to-face interactions.

Office Attendance

Employees are generally expected to be present in the office 4 days per week.

This guideline is flexible and can be adjusted based on individual circumstances.

Benefits

Healthcare

New laptop of your choice.

Paid lunch and Dinner after 7PM when at the office

401(K) Plan

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid in New York City

SkyLink provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.