[Remote] Software Engineer, Flights and Loyalty
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Taekus is a fintech and travel startup building a next generation premium financial services brand. They are seeking a flights focused full-stack or backend engineer to help scale their flight routing & booking engine, which includes working with airline loyalty programs. The role involves driving core feature delivery and integrating with external airlines and GDS partners.
Responsibilities
- Driving Core Feature Delivery: Taking ownership of major feature releases across the entire flight booking funnel, from flight search to booking creation and post-booking fulfillment
- Building logic for award ticket inventory pricing & point transferring to our partners
- Integrating with external airlines and GDS partners and navigating their complex communication protocols and data schemas
Skills
- 6+ years of engineering experience, most recently writing production-grade Python
- Experience with GDS systems, such as Amadeus or Sabre
- Technical experience in: Python / Django, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, AWS
- You're into credit card points/travel hacking and book yourself many flights with points — and you can play all those pesky airline rewards search engines like an instrument
- You've considered building your own flight inventory scrapers, have multiple credit cards, and have history with FlyerTalk
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock option plan
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with 5% company match
- Flexible vacation policy
- Fully remote work environment
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