Software Engineer (Backend)

Department: Engineering

Location: New York

Compensation: $120K – $160K • 0.02% – 0.1%

Employment Type: FullTime

About SkyLink

SkyLink allows travelers to book and manage travel through chat or email as if they're talking to a corporate travel agent. Through recent breakthroughs in natural-language processing and generative language, our highly trained AI models are able to take colloquial English and handle complex travel itineraries and changes. We work with enterprises and Travel Management companies to drive productivity, increase booking throughput, and streamline operations. We are revenue generating and have customers.

We are backed by Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator, Human Capital, and Fortune 50 CEOs. Our board of advisor includes former CEOs of Global Travel companies.

About the role

We’re looking for a software engineer to help us build the best-in-class AI travel management platform. An ideal candidate has 4 years of software experience building nuanced technical systems and working in shared, collaborative codebases and environments.

A great fit:

• 4+ Years of software experience building nuanced technical systems and working in shared, collaborative codebases and environments.

• Is scrappy, knows how to ship, and values progress over perfection

• Has built scalable systems

• Has strong security, relational database, and software design skills

• Can manage infrastructure across dev, staging, and production environments

• Wants to set, maintain, and adhere to great software engineering standards (comments, testing, documentation, high quality review)

• Is just as excited to code and build as they are to architect and design software

• Wants to deeply understand technical domains and work on large-scale challenges

• Has experience with or interest in AI and large language models

• Wants ownership and autonomy in a role that will supercharge your growth both professionally and personally

You will:

• Create Unified Integrations and APIs on top of complex travel systems (Sabre, TravelPort, Amadeus, etc)

• Design and implement database models that scale across our various customers and their systems

• Implement algorithms to determine ideal travel itineraries for corporate travelers.

• Implement travel purchases, rebookings, and cancellations

• Integrate our chatbot into email, slack, teams, sms, and any chat platform that may come up

• Architect an AI-driven platform to drive travel with LLMs

• Maintain and manage AWS infrastructure and internal CI/CD

Tech Stack:

• Backend: Python, Django, Celery, Redis, Postgres

• Frontend: React, Typescript

• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker

About the interview

Introduction zoom chat with a cofounder

This is an informal call for us to meet each other and get to know one another. The
conversation will cover some light technical discussion about your past projects and
your ability to code and build fairly involved systems. We would like to hear details
about those projects and both your product and technical decisions (good or bad)
which show ownership and autonomy. We also want to understand what you are
looking for in your next role and why you are interested in early-stage startups. You will get to ask us about the role and learn about what working at SkyLink will feel like.

Two technical interviews

These technical interviews will give you an ability to show off your system design and
backend programming skills. We will evaluate your ability to critically think, create
complex backends, and scale real world systems. Additionally, we will discuss your
familiarity or interest in AI and Large Language models.

SkyLink Hybrid Work Policy

At SkyLink, we value in-person collaboration and have invested in a comfortable office space with amenities such as meal expensing to facilitate teamwork. While we recognize the benefits of working from home, we also prioritize face-to-face interactions.

Office Attendance

• Employees are generally expected to be present in the office 4 days per week.

• This guideline is flexible and can be adjusted based on individual circumstances.

Benefits

• Healthcare

• New laptop of your choice.

• Paid lunch and Dinner after 7PM when at the office

• 401(K) Plan

• Unlimited PTO

• Hybrid in New York City

SkyLink provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.