software engineer Remote
Job description
About us
Travelnest is an Edinburgh-founded travel-tech startup. We help owners of holiday vacation rental properties maximise their performance in a global guest market. Today, with our platform, a host can upload their property details once and be advertised for bookings across 30+ top travel sites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia.
Our ambition is to become the place a host markets and manages their property, providing everything from channel listings, to operational services, to facilitating direct bookings - a ”super app” for vacation rental owners.
Our team is currently working remotely. We have recently hired fully remote employees throughout the UK, and as we scale we endeavour to have a hybrid remote working environment.
The role
Senior Software Engineer
£65,000 - £85,000
Software engineers at Travelnest work in cross-functional teams and write reliable, maintainable and well-tested code to produce top quality user features and robust API integrations.
Our tech stack roughly looks like:
- React (Typescript)
- Node.js (Typescript) & Python
- jest, pytest, Cucumber
- PostgreSQL
- AWS - ECS, Lambda, SNS, SQS, RDS, Glue, Athena
Your typical week at work could include:
- Working with designers and product managers to build out user-facing features
- Building, maintaining and improving integrations with our third-party partners
- Contributing to the design of our highly asynchronous architecture
- Mentoring/coaching other members of the team as an expert in your field
- Identifying and paying down tech debt
What we're looking for
- Demonstrable programming experience in highly autonomous, cross-functional teams
- Customer-centricity; you want to solve real problems for real people
- Strong communication skills and an appetite to collaborate across the business
- Pragmatism, favouring narrow scope and frequent iteration
- Eligibility to work in the UK
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with spinning up and maintaining infrastructure in AWS (we use Terraform)
- Experience in the travel/vacation rentals industry
- Experience working in agile development teams
- Knowledge of our tech stack (we’re looking for capable people, not specific technologies!)
What we offer
- We’re at the start of an exciting journey, there are huge opportunities to shape the future of the engineering team, the tech stack, and the whole company together
- We offer a great set of benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working hours
- Share options in the company
- 5% employer pension contribution
- Unlimited holiday leave
- Monthly remote working subsidy
- A benefits package including:
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Dental Cover
- Gym discounts
- And more…
- Access to therapy sessions and virtual wellbeing resources
- The chance to solve new challenges - every day you will collaborate to innovate and adapt new ideas
- A great working environment and the opportunity to grow our product and business together
- Our team are currently working fully remotely, we’re open to hiring anyone based in the UK
Our Application process
Applying is really easy through this advert by uploading your CV. We’re not looking for perfect CVs, if you like the sound of us send it in!
We’ll then contact you for an informal chat, followed by a couple of rounds of culture and technical interviews to get to know you better. We aim to make our recruitment process a snapshot into our culture and what it's like to work here - we know interviews can be scary and often not fun, so if you take the time to come and meet us, we will aim to put you at ease!
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or age.
