Remote Senior Software Engineer (Python)

Join Pelago as a Senior Software Engineer (Python)

Are you passionate about building great products? Do you want to redefine the way travelers explore the world? If so, Pelago is the place for you! We are looking for ambitious and motivated talents who are excited about staying on the cutting edge of technology and always keen on innovating new ways to drive growth and take our startup to new heights.

About Pelago

Pelago is a travel experiences platform created by Singapore Airlines Group. Think of us as a travel magazine that you can book - highly curated, visually inspiring, with the trust and quality of Singapore Airlines. We connect you with global, local cultures and ideas so you can expand your life.

What We Offer

• A unique opportunity to take end-to-end ownership of your workstream to deliver real value to users.
• Platforms to solve real user problems concerning travel planning & booking with innovative products/services.
• An amazing peer group to work with, and the ability to learn from the similarly great minds around you.
• An opportunity to be an integral part of shaping the company’s growth and culture with a diverse, fun, and dynamic environment with teammates from different parts of the world.
• Competitive compensation and benefits - including work flexibility, insurance, unlimited annual leave, remote working, and more!

Your Role

• Write code as part of a diverse and multi-skilled development team.
• Design and architect innovative, modern architectures and follow best practices.
• Champion a focus on software qualities such as testability, security, scalability, operability, etc.
• Work with state-of-the-art technologies to solve genuine, real-world problems.
• Champion good agile practices that provide a foundation for iterative product development.
• Build strong relationships with product managers, designers, and business teams.
• Enjoy working in a diverse, dynamic, collaborative, transparent environment where everyone's ideas and opinions are equally valued.
• Demonstrate and communicate a passion for implementing highly scalable and maintainable backend services.
• Share technical solutions and product ideas through design review, pair programming, code review, and technological discussions.

Required Expertise

• 6+ years of hands-on development and delivery experience with a broad mix of languages and technologies.
• Experience working with Agile, Lean, and Continuous Delivery approaches, such as Continuous Integration, TDD, Infrastructure as Code, etc.
• Deploying your own code to production with a CI/CD pipeline.
• Working with relational databases and interacting with ORMs.
• Experience building cloud-native scalable software architectures.
• API design and structure, especially in collaboration with the frontend team.
• Building software in a security-conscious way, especially keeping in mind things like the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities.
• Strong people skills that contribute to an open and collaborative environment.
• Experience in communicating ideas and decisions to a variety of team members.
• Working closely and proactively with product managers and designers to deliver high-quality user experiences.

Preferred Skills

• Infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Experience working in the travel industry or with B2C platforms.

Technologies We Use

• Languages / Frameworks: Python, GraphQL, Open AI
• Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services, AWS Lambda

This role is fully remote and based in India. If you’re as excited as we are about this journey, apply directly with a copy of your full resume and portfolio (if any). We'll reach out to you as soon as we can!