[Remote] Software Engineer, Flights and Loyalty

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Taekus is a fintech and travel startup building a next generation premium financial services brand. They are seeking a flights focused full-stack or backend engineer to help scale their flight routing & booking engine, which includes working with airline loyalty programs. The role involves driving core feature delivery and integrating with external airlines and GDS partners.

Responsibilities

• Driving Core Feature Delivery: Taking ownership of major feature releases across the entire flight booking funnel, from flight search to booking creation and post-booking fulfillment
• Building logic for award ticket inventory pricing & point transferring to our partners
• Integrating with external airlines and GDS partners and navigating their complex communication protocols and data schemas

Skills

• 6+ years of engineering experience, most recently writing production-grade Python
• Experience with GDS systems, such as Amadeus or Sabre
• Technical experience in: Python / Django, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, AWS
• You're into credit card points/travel hacking and book yourself many flights with points — and you can play all those pesky airline rewards search engines like an instrument
• You've considered building your own flight inventory scrapers, have multiple credit cards, and have history with FlyerTalk

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock option plan
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with 5% company match
• Flexible vacation policy
• Fully remote work environment

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