WhereTo - Senior Node.JS Engineer

WhereTo is a business travel startup from San Francisco that evolved into an agile development and design studio within the Flight Centre family. We build travel solutions used by some of the largest companies on the planet - we have just one goal : making business travel better for everybody.

WhereTo provides an AI-powered travel platform for corporate travel. Their platform uses machine learning algorithms to recommend personalized travel options based on a traveler's preferences, company policies, and budget. WhereTo's technology also allows for real-time travel tracking, reporting, and cost analysis, enabling companies to optimize their travel programs and reduce costs.

About The Opportunity

We are looking for a Back End focused engineer to be a pivotal member of our engineering team. You will be working closely with product managers and developers who like to use lots of interesting technologies to develop core features used across the WhereTo platform. A great fit for this role is someone who is always intrigued by new technology, is constantly finding better ways to write beautiful, shareable, scalable and solid code, is comfortable working in a fast paced remote environment, and is a team player.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for creating high quality user-focused software while working in a fast-moving domain team.
• Help define, implement and reinforce architectural + implementation best practices
• Assist Team Lead in facilitating technical planning for team’s projects.
• Assist Team Lead in communicating progress, roadblocks, concerns, and
• successes to engineering management.
• May be required to organize and lead meetings with external stakeholders as needed.
• Provide technical guidance to more junior engineers
• Assist Team Lead in code review for your team.
• Help your team members debug issues and solve complex tasks.
• Provide mentorship to junior engineers.
• Assist in onboarding process for your team.
• You will live and breathe asynchronous I / O, Typed JavaScript and horizontal scalability.
• Help cultivate a safe, inclusive, and accessible work environment for team members of all backgrounds including people who are racialized, have disabilities (invisible or visible), require faith accommodations, and / or are LGBTQ2+
• Do your part to encourage an inclusive and accessible work environment for all Flighties, regardless of age, gender, disability, ethnicity, faith, and LGBTQ+ identity
• Participate in maintaining an inclusive and accessible work environment for all Flighties, regardless of their identities and lived experiences
• Help to foster an inclusive and accessible team environment for all Flighties, regardless of their identities and cultural backgrounds

Experience & Qualifications

Work Perks! - What’s in it for you :

FCTG is renowned internationally for having amazing perks and an even better culture. We understand that our people are our most valuable asset. It is the passion and dedication of our teams that keep the company on top of the industry ladder. It’s also why we offer some great employee benefits and perks outside of the norm.