Backend Engineer

Tablet is how you book the world’s most exciting hotels — places where you get a memorable experience, not just a room for the night. For over 20 years we've scoured the earth to find hotels that stand out for their style, service, and personality — regardless of price. In fact, our painstaking curation led to Michelin making us the official hotel selection of their legendary MICHELIN Guide. The MICHELIN Guide has always been a benchmark in gastronomy. Now it’s setting the same standard for hotels.

Our mission is to open doors to places people will love that they might not have found on their own, extraordinary places that reflect the beauty and diversity of the world. Our team believes that travel brings people of all backgrounds together. Our hotels provide an unforgettable backdrop for that union.

Headquartered in New York City, we operate in eight languages, bringing the top 1% of hotels in over a hundred different countries around the world to our discerning clientele via our website and app. And if you really want to take it to the next level, our Plus membership program provides VIP upgrades and amenities at hundreds of our properties.

Backend Engineer

While maintaining core Tablet Hotels products, our team also leads design and development for the MICHELIN Guide. Projects are becoming increasingly ambitious as we continue to expand internationally. We’re growing in order to support an evolving product ecosystem for two brands with feature parity across three mobile apps and two websites.

Our backend team is focused on supporting and expanding the functionality of our booking engine, payment processing, and inventory management systems used by the MICHELIN Guide and Tablet Hotels platforms. Sitting on the Booking Path team, you’ll report to our lead backend engineer and work on the features that deliver and enhance hotel search and booking. The Booking Path team is critical to maintaining competitive advantage around user search, checkout, utility, and beyond. We offer opportunities for ownership, autonomy, and collaboration with various teams throughout the organization.

Current Booking Path Initiatives Include

• Improving user utility, search tools, and advancing filtering
• Transitioning from Elasticsearch to Algolia
• Migrating from Flask to Django
• Optimizing 3rd party integrations
• Optimizing queuing and computational efficiency of our most important endpoints
  
  

We’re a high retention organization with an involved and contributing management team. If you’re self-directed and do better work when trusted with freedom and flexibility, we may be an excellent fit.

Requirements

• 3+ years software engineering experience with Python
• Confidence with *nix based command-line tools
• Experience designing RESTful API services
• Experience in an OTA and/or experience with inventory management and pricing
• Experience with Stripe
  
  

This is a hybrid role requiring two days per week in our New York City office.

$110 - 125k Annual salary based on experience