This is a full-stack role with a strong backend focus. The ideal candidate is highly comfortable across the stack and capable of contributing to frontend development when needed.
About Holiwise
Holiwise is an AI-powered platform, leveraging in-house machine learning models to reinvent the premium travel experience. Holiwise is looking for a Founding Software Engineer to join its rapidly growing team. This is an opportunity to work directly with the founding team in an environment that offers significant growth and leadership potential as the company scales. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping Holiwise’s technical foundations and will have a tangible impact on the company’s vision of revolutionising the premium travel industry.
The founding team brings experience from Goldman Sachs, Spotify, Microsoft and Barclays Investment Bank. Holiwise recently raised $1.7M from senior executives at Google, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, Barclays and others.
Key Responsibilities
* Architect, build and scale backend services and infrastructure
* Design secure, efficient and scalable data models, APIs and microservices
* Develop high-performance systems with strong emphasis on reliability, logging and observability
* Manage integrations with third-party data providers, travel platforms and internal ML pipelines
* Implement and maintain cloud infrastructure, CI/CD workflows, monitoring and deployment processes
* Collaborate with ML engineers to productionise models and build robust data pipelines
* Build and maintain frontend development using React, Next.js, and NodeJS when required
Qualifications
* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent experience
* Strong expertise in backend engineering, with focus on Python
* Serious work ethic and attitude
* Exceptional teamwork, communication and analytical skills
* A strong desire to learn and explore new technologies
* Familiarity with GCP, Docker and CI/CD pipelines; comparable tooling experience also considered
* Excellent debugging, testing and optimisation abilities
* Experience working with RESTful and streaming APIs
Why Join Holiwise?
* Opportunity to play a founding role in one of the fastest-growing AI companies in travel, backed by world-class investors
* Competitive salary and meaningful equity incentives
* Significant scope for career progression and leadership as the company scales
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
* Software Development
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