Responsibilities
- Ramp up on Going’s backend services, architecture, codebase, and deployment pipelines.
- Contribute to core travel systems including APIs, GDS integrations, and async workflows.
- Lead development of backend features in collaboration with product, data, and mobile/web engineers.
- Propose and implement performance, reliability, or maintainability improvements in existing services.
- Pair with and mentor engineers across the team to share best practices and raise technical quality.
- Help shape the future of our system design through thoughtful, pragmatic engineering contributions.
- Own and evolve core components of our backend architecture, especially around travel systems integrations.
- Lead greenfield development of scalable systems that support Going’s backend and data capabilities.
- Drive improvements in service observability, fault tolerance, performance, and data integrity.
- Collaborate with other engineering leaders to shape technical strategy, service boundaries, and system evolution.
- Mentor engineers and champion engineering best practices in design, testing, documentation, and incident response.
- Influence engineering-wide standards, helping us scale while maintaining technical excellence and joy of development.
Benefits
- 100% remote work environment
- Annual team retreats, with past destinations including Washington D.C., Vancouver, and Mexico City. We’re heading to Scottsdale in October and will be excited to meet you there!
- Open vacation policy, with a 15-day minimum
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance
- 401(k) with a 5% match
- $750/quarter remote work, wellness, and wisdom stipend
- Up to 12 weeks of paid family leave
- Meetup stipend when you cross paths with a co-worker
- Continuing education & development reimbursement
- Challenging problems to solve and an awesome team to collaborate with every single day
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
Additional Information
- You’re able to work US hours
- You’re legally authorized to work in the United States
- Going is an E-Verify employer
- If you require a reasonable accommodation or assistance for any part of the interview and employment process, please contact us at careers@going.com and let us know the nature of your request.
