Software Engineer, Flights
Job description
Backend engineering role on Nuitée's Flights product, taking a working flight API product from 1 to 10 as part of a small team. The engineer owns API design, caching, data models and reliability for flight search and post-booking servicing.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · Europe
What you'll do
- Decide how Flights scales, including API design, caching, data models, and reliability
- Cache flight offers aggressively enough to stay fast and cost efficient without serving stale prices or availability
- Handle changes, cancellations, and refunds on a booking cleanly across different airlines and suppliers
- Design APIs simple enough that a partner can launch flights without learning airline retailing first
- Support NDC and offer and order based retailing (OOSD) while much of the industry still runs on legacy GDS flows
- Build low-code API infrastructure so a fintech or super-app can launch a flight product without becoming an airline expert
What we're looking for
- Have worked in the flights domain, at an OTA, airline, GDS, distributor, or flight booking platform, and understand how flight bookings work end to end
- Have hands-on experience with NDC
- Have 8+ years in software development, with deep backend and API experience
- Have real experience with Python, even if your main language is another object-oriented language like Java, Go, or Kotlin
- Are a hands-on IC and want to stay one
- Are based in Europe or work comfortably in a European time zone
Nice to have
- AWS experience at developer level
- Booking servicing
- GDS integrations (Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport)
- High-traffic systems
- FastAPI
- Redis
- Relational databases
Your team
Flights
A small team that built Nuitée's flights product from scratch; the 0 to 1 phase is done and the next stage is taking it from 1 to 10.
Benefits
World-Class Backing: backed by Accel and visionary leaders across tech and travel—including Booking.com, Stripe, and Shopify
Global Impact: infrastructure supports partners like Google, Grab, worldwide fintechs, superapps, travel companies and others
- Massive Market Opportunity: tackling the $9.9tn travel industry, starting with the $75 billion B2B hotel market
- Bootstrapped Resilience, Startup Agility: grown profitably for years without external funding
- AI-Driven Innovation: positioned to power the future of travel in the AI era
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About Nuitée
The API backbone for the global travel industry
Nuitée is building the API backbone for the global travel industry. Founded in 2017, it enables seamless connectivity between hotels, OTAs, fintechs, super-apps, and businesses, offering direct access to hotel inventory with better pricing, coverage, and technology. With teams across the globe, including hubs in London, New York, San Francisco, Palma de Mallorca and Casablanca, Nuitée has grown into a global infrastructure provider trusted by industry leaders like Hopper, Priceline, Google, and Uber.
Mission
To transform a fragmented travel ecosystem with simple, scalable, and API-first infrastructure—think "Stripe for Travel."
Key facts
- 2017
- B2B travel infrastructure / travel technology
- Founded in 2017
- Hubs in London, New York, San Francisco, Palma de Mallorca and Casablanca
- Grown 10x since 2022
- Was profitable before raising a $48M Series A led by Accel
- Tackling the $9.9tn travel industry, starting with the $75 billion B2B hotel market
Partners & customers
What they value
- Results-oriented culture with real autonomy over how you organise your work
- Little process and a lot of room to make decisions
- Supportive and easy to work with team