About Tripstack We are travel tech entrepreneurs, changing the way millions of people travel. Our proprietary virtual interlining technology provides access to billions of travel itineraries by combining flights from different airline carriers that don’t traditionally work together. We take our customers from point A to B via C, including land transportation, at the lowest possible price. We are impacting the way people travel and provide higher margin opportunities to our partners that are some of the largest online travel agencies in the world. We pride ourselves on the performance-driven environment we have created for our teams to prosper and excel in. We come to work ready, to challenge and be challenged. We’re big enough to give our teams support but small enough that every person makes a difference. There are still plenty of challenges to champion.

The Role

We are looking for a Software Architect to join our development team. You will be responsible for designing a large-scale distributed system, APIs that provide unique travel (flights and more) content to our customers. We are looking for someone with strong experience in complex systems architecture, that is detail-oriented and can work both independently and collaboratively in a fast paced environment. This role will help with analyzing, designing, developing, testing, and deploying our Product.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, building, and maintaining cost-efficient, scalable cloud environments for the organization with main focus on the booking engine solution (travel reservations)
• Hands on software development experience - prototyping, investigating complex issues at scale
• Understanding business objectives of the company and creating solutions to facilitate those objectives
• Moving legacy or inefficient systems to the new solutions
• Designing environments secure and preventing downtime or security breaches
• Creating solutions that covers cloud services, edge computing, consumer devices
• Building and maintaining architectures for real-time high availability travel reservation systems
• Keeping up to date on best practices in cloud computing and making improvements
• Making hardware and software recommendations for the organization, based on needs of the project and organization
• Working with top executives and the architecture board to set strategic directions in technology
• Actively mentor the team on new and existing technology used within our product landscape.
• Work cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, to deliver high quality products.
• Evangelize TripStack products internally and externally

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical field
• Proven track record of designing/architecting scalable, high availability distributed systems that serve internet traffic direct to consumers or businesses at scale
• Proficient knowledge of the operation and development designs of agile software
• 8+ years of experience in C#, .Net, Golang, and Swagger would also be acceptable
• 8+ years of experience and understanding of CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis (time and space)
• 6+ years of experience and understanding databases such as Postgres
• 6+ years of experience and understanding of highly scalable caching/no-sql offerings like Redis, Bigtable, DynamoDB.
• 3+ years of experience and understanding of event processing platforms like Apache Kafka
• 3+ years of experience building large scale, high-performance systems in a complex, multi-tiered, distributed environment
• 6+ years of design and architecture knowledge as well as familiarity with object-oriented analysis and design patterns (OOA/OOD)
• Proven track record of taking ownership and successfully delivering results
• Experience with Restful API development
• Experience working in a Linux environment
• Understanding of performance trade-offs, load balancing and operational issues
• Broad understanding of coding and programming languages
• Experience with database design and data modeling
• Extensive knowledge of the software development process and corresponding technologies
• Excellent understanding of design patterns and architectural styles
• Strong soft skills, including attention to detail, problem-solving and communication skills
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization

Additional experience that would be considered an asset:

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform/AWS or other cloud providers & cloud native architecture
• Experience with Machine Learning concepts and model development. Experience with Docker, Container Orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• Experience with code analysis tools like SonarQube
• Experience in the travel domain (airline/global reservation systems)

What it takes to succeed here Ambition and dedication to make a difference and change the way people travel. Where we always play to each other's strength in a high performing team reaching for our common goal. We hold ourselves to the highest expectations, and move with a sense of urgency and hold ourselves accountable and win by staying true to what we believe in. Benefits We offer an opportunity to work with a young, dynamic, and a growing team composed of high-caliber professionals. We value professionalism and promote a culture where individuals are encouraged to do more and be more. If you feel you share our passion for excellence, and growth, then look no further. We have an ambitious mission, and we need a world-class team to make it a reality. Upgrade to a First Class team!