Software Engineer (Backend)

About the role

ABOUT SKYLINK

SkyLink builds AI products for the travel industry. Our flagship product is an AI corporate travel agent that lives directly in Slack and Microsoft Teams, helping enterprises book and manage travel faster and more intelligently while integrating with their existing policies, systems, and travel management companies.

Now part of the Amadeus family, SkyLink is building the next generation of AI-powered travel products for companies and travelers worldwide. We are backed by Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator, Human Capital, and Fortune 50 executives, with advisors including former CEOs of leading global travel companies.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for a software engineer to help us build the best-in-class AI travel management platform. An ideal candidate has 2 years of software experience building nuanced technical systems and working in shared, collaborative codebases and environments.

A GREAT FIT:

- 2+ 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.