Job Application for Staff Backend Engineer at FLYR

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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 quickly unlock modern retailing capabilities, improve revenue performance and modernize the e-commerce experience.

Flight Itinerary (About The Role)

We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Legacy Translator team, where you'll play a crucial role in enabling seamless transitions for airlines. Our team is focused on ensuring backward compatibility with existing systems, allowing airlines to innovate at their own pace without disruption as they migrate to our Offer & Order platform. You'll be instrumental in developing services that help migrate airlines from legacy systems that use Passenger Name Records (PNRs) and tickets to modern retailers.
Our services are built in Golang, with Postgres and Redis for data storage, and we host our services on GCP. As an engineering team, we're committed to fostering an intellectually stimulating environment that supports your career growth and provides ample opportunities for significant impact. We'd love to have you on board!

What Your Journey Will Look Like (Responsibilities)

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll work on complex, wide-ranging issues and exercise significant judgment in selecting appropriate methods for obtaining results.

Lead the design and development of new product capabilities for our Legacy Translator, utilizing Golang and other cutting-edge technologies.
Architect and implement robust, scalable integrations between existing legacy services and our modern architecture, ensuring smooth data flow, compatibility, and long-term maintainability.
Apply strong architectural thinking to comprehensively analyze problems, develop strategic solutions, and proactively prevent repetitive issues across our systems.
Provide technical expertise, leadership, and mentorship in product design, development, and delivery, upholding the highest coding standards, requirements, and quality. You will help others understand the organization's strategic goals and how their work contributes to them.
Accurately estimate upcoming work, clearly communicate complex technical solutions to diverse audiences, and report progress effectively.
Collaborate strategically within a product-focused scrum team to deliver against a roadmap managed by a dedicated product owner, often coordinating activities of other team members.

What To Pack For This Trip (Qualifications)

8+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
Deep expertise in Golang and at least one other language like Python, C/C++, Java, etc., with a profound understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).
Proven leadership skills with a track record of mentoring and guiding new team members, cultivating an engineering-excellence culture, and influencing larger engineering organizations.
Extensive familiarity with both SQL and NoSQL storage solutions, understanding their respective strengths, weaknesses, and optimal use cases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis).

Optional Carry-On (Preferred Qualifications)

Extensive experience with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), security best practices, and advanced observability tools.
Deep familiarity with modern CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based containerized development.
Prior engineering experience designing, building, and running high-load, high-uptime, and mission-critical services in production environments.
Extensive experience with Quality Assurance (QA) methodologies and fostering a quality-first mindset within teams.
Significant engineering experience with data-intensive systems and data-driven products, demonstrating an ability to draw sound conclusions based on analysis and experience.

First-Class Amenities

Regular employment contract
Equity in Series D 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
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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Staff Backend Engineer