Software Engineer - (Mid Level)

Join Triptease — Where Travel Tech Meets Impact. At Triptease, we’re building technology that helps hotels thrive in a digital world dominated by Online Travel Agents. Our products empower hotels to increase direct bookings, regain profitability, and build closer relationships with their guests. Already helping generate over £1 billion in direct revenue annually, we’re scaling fast across 100+ countries with offices in London, New York, Barcelona, and Singapore. It’s a fantastic time to join us as we grow our impact and expand our engineering teams.

We’re looking for a Mid Level Software Engineer who thrives in solving complex problems, working closely with others, and experimenting with new technologies. You will have excellent experience with backend projects and have also worked as a full stack engineer. You’ll help us craft accessible user experiences, design scalable systems, and explore how AI and automation can make our platform smarter and more impactful for hoteliers worldwide.

About the Tamarin Squad: Tamarin looks after Triptease’s core off-site marketing channels: Metasearch, Paid Search and Retargeting. Our mission is to empower hotels with control over these channels, giving them the tools to shape strategy, reach their most valuable guests and drive direct bookings. We’re a collaborative team working mainly in TypeScript (Node.js and React) with Google Cloud Run, Kubernetes, Terraform and BigQuery. Day to day we build backend services, integrations with platforms like the Google Ads API, and features within Campaign Manager that give hoteliers both strategic control and tactical flexibility.

Our main challenges include unifying channels into a connected system, balancing automation with customer control, and staying ahead of the fast-changing Google ecosystem. We value continuous learning, autonomy and product thinking; every engineer contributes ideas and helps shape the squad’s direction, not just the code.

Our Tech Stack:

• Languages: Primarily TypeScript, with some Kotlin and Python
• Backend: Node.js, experimenting with modern alternatives like Bun
• Frontend: React for admin tools and reporting (minimal UI work)
• Infrastructure: Google Cloud Run, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Data: BigQuery, PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Integrations: Google Ads API, various metasearch and advertising platforms

Your Day-to-Day: You’ll be part of a small, empowered squad responsible for building, growing, and maintaining key parts of the Triptease stack. While the work spans both frontend and backend, there’s a strong lean toward backend systems. On a typical day, you’ll:

• Pair program with teammates for the majority of your coding time.
• Take part in daily standups, weekly planning sessions, and frequent retros to continuously improve how we work.
• Collaborate openly with colleagues — we value honest discussion and make sure everyone’s voice is heard.
• Contribute to a team that owns its strategy end-to-end, deciding together what actions to take to succeed.
• Practice trunk-based development and continuous delivery, shipping small, incremental changes to production.

What You’ll Bring:

• Comfortable with pair programming most of the day, and see test-driven development (TDD) as integral to building reliable systems.
• Strong backend experience in TypeScript with additional frontend skills for admin UIs.
• Practical experience building deployment pipelines and continuous delivery on cloud platforms.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and BigQuery.
• Experience designing and building distributed, high-availability, high-throughput systems while maintaining modularity, functionality, maintainability, and data consistency.
• You write obvious, concise code that rarely needs comments and always leave the codebase better than you found it.
• Customer-centric approach, working closely with product managers to ensure technical solutions deliver value.
• Commitment to continuous learning, autonomy, psychological safety, and developing your craft.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with online advertising or ad tech products.
• Familiarity with the Google Ads API.
• gRPC experience.
• You have an entrepreneurial streak, with examples of how you identified opportunities and delivered them.
• Experience in cross-functional teams practising XP (Extreme Programming) and Kanban techniques.
• Familiarity with multiple programming languages and the ability to bring insights and practices across ecosystems.

Perks & Benefits: We’re a remote-first Product & Engineering team, working across the UK and Europe (London +/- 1h GMT). You can work from our London office, from home, or a mix of both. Whatever suits you best. We meet regularly in person for team and company events.

What we offer: Our start-up culture means everyone's contribution really matters. It's an inclusive, outcome-orientated and fun place to work. We’re committed to your career development, most of our staff have seen considerable learning and progression. There is space to take dedicated learning time out each week to further improve your craft. Triptease will also fund training and conferences if you tell us why we should. We like to offer all our employees a stake in our success which is why we offer share options. Paid vacation (increasing with tenure), Work from anywhere: 4 weeks abroad annually (within a ±3 hour time zone), Monthly wellness budget, Yearly learning allowance, Enhanced maternity & paternity leave, 10 "Discovery Days" per year to explore innovative ideas together with colleagues from around the business.

Our Operating Model & Culture: In Product-Engineering, we hire people we trust, and then trust them to make their own choices on how they want to work, and how they want to reach a goal. Our team is made up of autonomous squads who decide what they work on, how they work and within them have all the skills they need to complete their mission. We care deeply about diversity and inclusion. We have a dedicated D&I squad who meet regularly to work on and propose actions to improve D&I within the team and wider biz. We truly value collaboration and are invested in maintaining a team that encourages everyone to contribute.

Triptease is proud to be an equal opportunity employer with an active cross-functional 'diversity squad' devoted to addressing diversity challenges in the company and industry. We welcome applications from diverse and non-traditional backgrounds.