Senior Software Engineer

About our company

Triptease. We are a disruptive force in the tech space for online travel. Never one to shy from big challenges, we built our reputation on empowering hotels to stand up to the might of Online Travel Agents.

We are uniquely positioned to help hotels in their greatest time of need. The world class data set we've been building, combined with a new set of digital marketing tools has positioned us to accelerate our impact to Hoteliers.

With offices in London, NYC, Barcelona and Singapore, we drive over £1bn in revenue for hoteliers around the globe. As we gear up for our next stage of growth, now is an ideal time to join our fast-growing and well funded technology business.

Inclusion is how we unleash the power of diversity. It is how we build our teams, cultivate our leaders and ensure Triptease is the right fit for every person. Come join us on our journey; be comfortable bringing your authentic self to work. Be you!

The Team

• You will be working in a small squad with between 2 and 6 people responsible for building, growing and maintaining different parts of the Triptease stack.
• We have both frontend and backend components, with a lean towards backend.
• All our teams are small, empowered and autonomous: we own the strategy and actions we need to take to be successful.
• We embrace honest and open discussion. We truly value collaboration and are invested in maintaining a team that encourages everyone to contribute.
• We run daily standups, weekly planning and frequent retros and feedback sessions.
• We embrace pair programming the vast majority of the time.
• We practice trunk based development and continuous delivery.
• At the end of each week, we join the rest of the company to showcase what we've accomplished and share our pride in the work we have done with our colleagues.

Where Are We

Our Product-Engineering team is mostly based in London, but we work with and are happy to consider remote candidates (UK Preferred). The team is remote-first, which means we conduct all team meetings or pairing on video calls. You can come into the Soho office or work from home, whatever works for you each day. We get together for social events as often as possible, both remote and in-person. We have a quarterly departmental meet-up where everyone comes to London for a couple of days to build alignment between squad development plans and to have fun together.

The Tech Stack

The Triptease tech stack consists of TypeScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, Mongo, Google Cloud Run / Kubernetes, BigQuery, Pub/Sub.

We frequently work together with other squads, all squads use a similar stack which is great for building up expertise and having other engineers to support you.

We're looking for

• You are collaborative, open-minded, and looking to continue to develop your craft.
• You're comfortable with pair programming all day.
• Experience writing distributed, high availability, high throughput systems maintaining data consistency.
• You are proud of the code you produce; it's obvious, concise and rarely needs to be commented. You always like to leave the code better than you found it, and are experienced with refactoring techniques, in fact, it's how you code every day.
• You see writing tests as an integral part of the development process and understand the benefit of writing code and tests in small increments.
• The applications you build are modular and functional.
• Excellent skills in developing a solution all the way from client-side through to server-side.
• You love shipping code and seeing how it performs in production and therefore are passionate about delivery pipelines, A/B testing, real-time analytics and monitoring tools like DataDog.
• You are customer-centric and work well with product managers.
• You have a solid understanding of HTTP and how the internet works.
• Expert knowledge at using tests to drive the design of the application.
• You have experience with building deployment pipelines and continuous delivery on cloud platforms (we use Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Terraform and Kubernetes).

• You have an entrepreneurial streak, with some great examples of how you saw an opportunity and made it happen.
• Working in cross-functional teams practising XP and Kanban techniques.
• You have experience in multiple different programming languages and understand the value in bringing ideas from other ecosystems into your current environment.

What's in it for you

Our start-up culture means everybody's contribution matters and is celebrated. We set ourselves ambitious goals and are proud of our ability to deliver those through smart working. Pace. We're growing. Get on board fast and be part of the journey. Having a real impact on an award-winning and fast-growing company.

• 22 Days holiday (Increase to 23 after 1st year and 24 after 2nd year).
• Working abroad for 4 weeks a year (within a -/+ 3 hours time zone of the UK).
• Ben benefits (£50 per month health and wellbeing budget) You can use this for gym membership, private healthcare, massages, therapy, cinema etc.
• Learning budget - £250 per calendar year
• Life Event leave (marriage, divorce, moving house, child's first day at school, ceremony or graduation).
• Make a Difference (volunteering) day.

Subject to passing probation.
We also offer

• Quarterly review socials.
• Remote working.
• Refer a Friend policy.
• Flexibility with childcare.
• Sabbaticals (from year three onwards).

We do not require external agency support for the recruitment of this role. Thank you.

Our Operating Model & Culture

• In Product-Engineering, we hire people we trust, and then trust them to make their own choices on how they want to work, and how they want to reach a goal. This sounds simple but it requires a lot of investment in the right company culture. Our team is made up of autonomous squads who decide what they work on, how they work and within them have all the skills they need to complete their mission. That means we have no centralised teams (Ops, QA etc).
• We think that we are doing a good thing for hotels and guests and believe in our mission! We are working on a highly scaled platform that hotels use to build direct relationships with their customers and cut out middlemen. In terms of scale, our software operates on around 10k hotels and collects 30M guest events a day, and growing. That's a big opportunity to positively impact a lot of people. And we could all use a bit of travel in our lives right now!
• We engage with our customers to validate assumptions and test new features. We like to go crazy deep on the problem. 'Start with the problem' is one of our three core principles, and beyond tools like FullStory, Intercom and Analytics that help us learn about users, each squad has friends in CS and Sales and even hoteliers themselves to help build that knowledge. Pandemic permitting, hotel visits and travel research budgets are also a big plus.
• We care deeply about diversity and inclusion. Within Prod-Eng we have a dedicated D&I squad who meet regularly to work on and propose actions to improve D&I within the team and wider biz. Outside of hiring activities, we work hard to foster an environment of psychological safety. We truly value collaboration and are invested in maintaining a team that encourages everyone to contribute.
• We optimise for learning. We regularly provide each other with feedback and reflect on the ways we work. We use Notion to bring efficient transparency and create a home for everything we do. We have initiatives like 'Discovery Days', 'Field Trips' and 'Coding Dojos' to bring new people together and create more learning and development opportunities.
• We celebrate our progress. At the end of each week, we join the rest of the company to showcase what we've accomplished and share our pride in the work we have done with our colleagues.

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Triptease is proud to be an equal opportunity employer with an active cross-functional 'diversity squad' devoted to addressing diversity challenges in the company and industry. We welcome applications from diverse and non-traditional backgrounds. Applicants will not be discriminated against on the basis of any protected characteristic(s) in terms of the Equality Act (2010).