Backend Engineer

Our Vision

We believe in a world where travel companies can innovate freely, growing and accelerating their business, while delivering the experience travelers want and the change the industry needs.

FLYR is a technology company that unlocks freedom to innovate for the travel industry – eliminating legacy constraints to enable real-time decision making and create the experiences travelers seek. With FLYR, businesses are able to improve revenue performance and modernize the e-commerce experience through accurate forecasting, automation, and analytics.

Flight Itinerary (About The Role)

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Offer Team composed of full-stack and backend engineers. You will be working on our new Offer Product which will combine flight and ancillary services into personalized offers for travelers and enable the distribution of offers through all channels.

Our new services will be built in Golang with Redis, Postgres, and BigQuery as data storage platforms.

As an Engineering team, we strongly believe in fostering an environment for intellectually interesting work that advances your career progression on this journey. Let’s get you on board soon.

What Your Journey Will Look Like (Responsibilities)

• Build out new product capabilities for our Commerce Engine / Offer product with the utilization of Golang and other technologies.
• Integrate existing legacy services into new architecture
• Think in patterns and quickly evaluate and make decisions regarding products, frameworks, platforms, APIs, and other technologies.
• Provide technical expertise and leadership in product design, development, and delivery, while adhering to coding standards, requirements, and quality.
• Make accurate estimates for upcoming work, communicate technical solutions effectively, and report progress.
• Work in a product-focused scrum team to deliver against a roadmap managed by a dedicated product owner.
• Provide technical expertise and leadership in product design, development, and delivery, while adhering to coding standards, requirements, and quality.

What To Pack For This Trip (Qualifications)

• 3+ years of software engineering experience in languages like Golang, Python, C/C++, Java, etc. and OOP.
• Proven leadership skills with the ability to mentor and guide new members, grow the engineering-excellence culture, and influence larger engineering organizations.
• Familiarity with SQL / NoSQL storage, and their strengths and weaknesses (PostgreSQL, Redis)

Optional Carry-On (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experienced with Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), Security, and Observability.
• Familiarity with modern CI/CD and cloud-based containerized development.
• Past engineering experience running high-load and high-uptime services in production
• Past experience with QA
• Past engineering experience with data-intensive systems and data-driven products.

First-Class Amenities

• Regular employment contract
• Equity in Series C startup with high growth potential
• Flexible working hours
• Complimentary Breakfast/Lunch (in-office)
• Gym in the office building
• Pension Plan
• Top-quality tech equipment
• Annual educational fund
• LinkedIn Learning access
• Many more!

Our Commitment to Equality

Here at FLYR, we’re committed to growing with intention, having our teams better reflect the world around us. We strive to create an environment of inclusion and even more importantly, belonging, where psychological safety, empathy, and human connection are at the center of our leadership principles. Not only does this enable us to create better products and have a better work environment, it’s good for the bottom line and it’s the right thing to do.

FLYR provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetics, marital or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, FLYR complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates.

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