Flight Centre Travel Group

Backend Engineer

Flight Centre Travel Group  •  Barcelona, ES (Onsite)  •  15 days ago
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Job Description

Who We Are

WhereTo is a business travel startup from San Francisco that evolved into an agile development and design studio within the Flight Centre family. We build travel solutions used by some of the largest companies on the planet - we have just one goal: making business travel better for everybody.

WhereTo provides an AI-powered travel platform for corporate travel. Our platform uses machine learning algorithms to recommend personalized travel options based on a traveller's preferences, company policies, and budget. Our technology also allows for real-time travel tracking, reporting, and cost analysis, enabling companies to optimize their travel programs and reduce costs.

We are looking for a Back End focused engineer to be a pivotal member of our engineering team. You will be working closely with product managers and developers who like to use lots of interesting technologies to develop core features used across the WhereTo platform. A great fit for this role is someone who is always intrigued by new technology, is constantly finding better ways to write beautiful, shareable, scalable and solid code, is comfortable working in a fast paced remote environment, and is a team player.

What You'll Do

  • Responsible for creating high quality user-focused software while working in a fast-moving domain team.
  • Help define, implement and reinforce architectural + implementation best practices
  • Assist Team Lead in facilitating technical planning for team’s projects.
  • Assist Team Lead in communicating progress, roadblocks, concerns, and
  • successes to engineering management.
  • May be required to organize and lead meetings with external stakeholders as needed.
  • Provide technical guidance to more junior engineers
  • Assist Team Lead in code review for your team.
  • Help your team members debug issues and solve complex tasks.
  • Provide mentorship to junior engineers.
  • Assist in onboarding process for your team.
  • You will live and breathe asynchronous I/O, Typed JavaScript and horizontal scalability.
  • Help cultivate a safe, inclusive, and accessible work environment for team members of all backgrounds including people who are racialized, have disabilities (invisible or visible), require faith accommodations, and/or are LGBTQ2+
  • Help to foster an inclusive and accessible team environment for all Flighties, regardless of their identities and cultural backgrounds

What We're Looking For

  • More than 6+ years experience in a software development role
  • Experience with building and architecting high quality software from scratch
  • Strong Node.js and JavaScript skills (ES6, Babel) - experience with TypeScript and/or FlowType is a bonus
  • Strong understanding of asynchronous I/O
  • Excellent software architecture skills and a passion for maintainable, organized code
  • Experienced with AWS, EC3, S3, RDS, CloudFront/CDNs
  • Expert with Linux, Ubuntu/Debian (BASH scripting a plus)
  • Experience with CI platforms (Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis, etc)
  • Experience with REST-based Web Service API implementation
  • Experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL (or similar) and understanding of how they work internally
  • Experience with Algorithms and Data Structures
  • Experience with NoSQL databases is desirable (i.e MongoDB, Cassandra)
  • Experience with memory cache systems (Redis, Memcached)
  • Experience with other systems programming languages is a bonus (Go, C/C++,
  • Rust, etc), and/or scripting languages (Python) and/or JVM-based languages (Scala, Java, Groovy)
  • Experience with pure functional programming and/or functional programming
  • libraries and concepts is a bonus (Haskell, Scala, F#, Ramda, Lo-Dash FP etc)
  • Strong experience in designing and implementing highly horizontally-scalable architecture

What You'll Enjoy

  • Tick destinations off your bucket list with our discounts on travel and accommodation.
  • Enjoy 25 Days Off per year plus 5 Compensation days!
  • Learn a new language with our free language learning platform (Global Exam).
  • Employee Retention Share Scheme through Equate Plus.
  • Various social events to promote networking, the celebration of wins, and sometimes just for fun! (Global Gathering 2024 - Portugal).
  • Enjoy our discounts with GymApp.
  • Complementary coffee, drinks, snacks and fruits at our Barcelona office location.
  • A strong focus on professional development to support you in the evolution of your career.

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Flight Centre Travel Group

About Flight Centre Travel Group

Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) is one of the world’s largest travel companies, employing 15,000 like-minded individuals – known as ‘Flighties’.

Our story dates to 1973, when founder Graham Turner (aka “Skroo") and friend Geoff “Spy” Lomas buy a double-decker bus and take off on their first tour around Spain, Portugal and Morrocco, 3 years later forming the first business, Top Deck. After flight deregulations in the 80s our first retail "Flight Centre" stores opened in Australia in 1982, London in 1984, and NZ in 1987.

1987 was also the year we held our first “Global Gathering” awards event celebrating our amazing people, a tradition that continues to this day.

And in 2025 we launched our very first loyalty program, World360 Rewards! Our Australian customers now able to earn and redeem points across Flight Centre, Travel Associates, and Cruiseabout.

We’re in our 40s now and a lot has changed! With global headquarters in Brisbane, Australia, our company owned leisure and corporate travel businesses span three major regions: APAC, The Americas and EMEA.

Our flagship corporate travel management brand, FCM, extends our reach even further through a network covering over 100 countries via both company-owned operations and independent licensees.

With 30 brands across our global footprint, our team spans from customer-facing to internal support roles. The opportunities just as diverse – from a Travel Consultant at Flight Centre or Envoyage, to a Machine Learning Scientist in one of our tech pillars.

Together, we live and breathe our number one philosophy, Our People, driven by our purpose ‘To open up the world for those who want to see’.

Our values are simple and powerful - Ownership, Egalitarianism and Irreverence.

We support our people with opportunities to help you thrive, connect, give, move and be rewarded. Our people have access to a suite of curated benefits to ensure holistic wellbeing – from mental and physical health to financial freedom. 

Industry
Travel & Hospitality
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
South Brisbane, AU
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
fctgl.com
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