Software Engineer - Flights
TravelPerk
About Us
TravelPerk is a global travel and expense management platform. Its all-in-one platform gives travelers the freedom they want whilst providing companies with the control they need. The result saves time, money, and hassle for everyone.
TravelPerk has industry-leading travel inventory alongside powerful management features, 24/7 customer support, state-of-the-art technology, and consumer-grade design.
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Barcelona, we’ve grown to over 1,800 people across Europe and North America. In 2022 we became a ‘unicorn’ and in 2025, we raised Series E funding at $2.7 billion valuation, alongside our acquisition of Yokoy, to become the leader in integrated travel and expense management.
We’ve been winning awards too. Since 2023, we’ve been voted one of the best places to work, one of the fastest-growing apps and tech companies, and a leading pioneer of business travel.
These are just some of the reasons why global brands like Wise, Red Bull, GetYourGuide, and Aesop trust us to get the most out of their travel.
Are you a Software Engineer with a passion for solving complex problems that move people around the world?
At TravelPerk, we’re on a mission to take the friction out of booking, managing, and optimizing business travel — especially flights, one of the most challenging and rewarding areas in travel tech.
We’re not hiring for a specific stack. We’re hiring great engineers who love building elegant systems, scaling real-world products, and choosing the right tools to get the job done.
🌍 What You’ll Do
You’ll join our product and engineering teams to design, build, and scale the flight booking experience that powers thousands of business trips every day. You’ll work closely with our product managers, product designers, and other engineers to:
- Build and optimize our flight booking engine on Amazon Web Services using Python and React.
- Design scalable integrations with multiple airline and GDS APIs (think Amadeus, Sabre, NDC, etc.).
- Architect systems that handle search, pricing, and availability across millions of flight combinations — fast.
- You build it, you run it - ensure reliability, observability, and testability at scale.
- Work in an agile, cross-functional team, focused on shipping clean, well-tested, and documented code.
🧠 What We’re Looking For
- A product-minded engineer who thinks beyond code to the user impact.
- A love for simplicity, efficiency, and performance in everything you build.
- Strong experience developing web-based products, ideally with a backend focus (Python, Node.js, Go, or similar).
- Full-stack experience allowing you to take end to end ownership of what you build.
- Passion for testing, code quality, and automation.
- Curiosity to learn new tools, frameworks, and travel industry tech.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
🚀 Bonus Points
- Experience integrating or building flight search and booking systems.
- Familiarity with GDS, NDC, or airline APIs.
- Experience with AI-assisted development (Copilot, Cline, etc.) or building AI-backed product features.
- DevOps experience on AWS.
- Contributions to open source or side projects that show your love for building.
How We Work
Our Vision is for a world where TravelPerk is the platform for human connection in real life (IRL). We take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in person 3 days a week. For roles in Customer Care, this can be up to 5 days per week in the office. As such, this role requires you to be within commuting distance of our hubs. We fundamentally believe in meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, and creativity, ultimately making us a great workplace.
At TravelPerk, we prioritise experience and potential over academic qualifications for this role. Talent and ability aren't always reflected in formal credentials.
TravelPerk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to ensure that the people behind our product reflect that. We're an equal opportunity employer, meaning you're welcome at TravelPerk regardless of your appearance, where you're from, or anything else that makes you.
Protect Yourself from Recruitment Scams
All official communication from TravelPerk will always come from email addresses ending in @travelperk.com, our verified social media channels, or recruiters listed on our official LinkedIn page. We will never ask you to pay for equipment, training, or fees, request sensitive personal information such as bank details early in the process, or communicate through unofficial apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal. If you receive a message claiming to be from TravelPerk that seems suspicious, please do not respond. Forward it to security@travelperk.com and we’ll confirm whether it’s legitimate.