Software Engineer
Backend-leaning full-stack engineer at a profitable AI travel startup building a platform to discover and book luxury hotels, villas, yachts and private flights. Day to day: Python/FastAPI supplier integrations, PostgreSQL data architecture, Redis/GCP infrastructure, LLM-powered search and recommendations, plus some React/TypeScript.
- Compensation
- £65K–£85K / yr
- Location
- Spain
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Backend-leaning full-stack engineer
- 4+ years' experience
- Designed and deployed production backend systems
- Confident with databases and architecture
- Enough frontend experience to build features end to end
Nice to have
- Experience from a successful startup, scaleup or high-calibre technology company
- Experience with AI-powered products, consumer platforms, marketplaces or e-commerce
Full description
Software Engineer (Python / AI / React) | £65-85k + Equity | Remote UK/EU
I'm recruiting for a profitable AI travel startup building a platform to discover and book luxury hotels, villas, yachts and private flights, with intelligent search and personalised recommendations at its core.
You' ll be joining an engineering team led by a hands-on CTO (worked for Microsoft, startups and hedge funds - build the inhouse machine learning models himself) as well as a founding engineer who built products used by millions at Spotify.
The challenge?
Building the systems that power the platform as it scales.
What you'll own:
- Python / FastAPI: Integrating multiple travel suppliers, handling real-time pricing, availability and API reliability.
- PostgreSQL: Designing the data architecture, normalising messy supplier data and matching duplicate properties.
- Redis / GCP: Caching, deployment, infrastructure and performance.
- AI search: Building retrieval and recommendation features using LLMs, embeddings and structured data.
- React / TypeScript: Contributing across the frontend when needed. It's a three-person engineering team, so everyone gets involved.
Who they're looking for:
- A backend-leaning full-stack engineer with 4+ years' experience, ideally from a successful startup, scaleup or high-calibre technology company.
- You' ll have designed and deployed production backend systems, be confident with databases and architecture, and have enough frontend experience to build features end to end.
- Experience with AI-powered products, consumer platforms, marketplaces or e-commerce is a big plus.
Not a pure frontend, ML or data engineering role.
They want someone who can own the backend architecture, write excellent code and contribute wherever the product needs them.
Paying £65-85k + equity | Fully remote anywhere in Europe!