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Senior Software Engineer, Backend
At TripWorks, we’re a fully remote team powering the experiences industry. We’re hiring a Sr Backend Engineer to design and scale resilient services and APIs, ship reliable supplier integrations, and harden performance, security, and observability.
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At TripWorks, we believe work should be meaningful, fast-paced, and a little bit adventurous. We're a fully remote team powering the experiences industry—helping tour and activity operators grow their businesses with tools that actually work.
We’re not big on fluff or hierarchy. We value progress over perfection, action over ego, and results over buzzwords. Our team is small, scrappy, and serious about helping our customers win.
If you’re the kind of person who sees a problem and grabs a shovel, who thrives on feedback, and who’s always looking for ways to level up—you’ll fit right in.
We’re hiring a Sr Backend Engineer to design and scale resilient services and APIs, ship reliable supplier integrations, and harden our platform’s performance, security, and observability. You'll be joining a team that ships fast, supports each other, and isn’t afraid to challenge the status quo.
What You’ll Do
- Design, implement, and evolve backend services/APIs for bookings, commissions, desk-level controls, waivers, and reporting.
- Ship robust integrations and data pipelines with retries and observability.
- Own performance at scale with caching, async jobs, dashboards.
- Lead design reviews, mentor peers, and shape long-term architecture.
- Harden CI/CD and on-call with alerts, runbooks, and SLOs.
- Partner with Product on analytics and revenue insights operators use.
What You Bring
- 5–8+ years building production backend systems with reliability and speed.
- Experience integrating third-party platforms/APIs and resilient ingestion.
- Database expertise (relational + NoSQL), profiling, indexing, tuning.
- Fluency in a modern backend stack (PHP, Rails, Python, Go, or Java), containers, AWS, CI/CD, monitoring.
- Strong testing discipline (unit, integration, e2e) with proven stability gains.
Why Join TripWorks?
- Fully remote team: Work where and how you’re most productive.
- Top-Tier Health Benefits: 100% of your medical premium covered + dental/vision.
- Equity: All employees are owners in the business.
- Generous PTO to recharge.
- Great People: Smart, kind, low-ego teammates who value impact.
- Values-Driven Culture: Fast growth, fast feedback, customer obsession.