Senior Software Engineer, Selfbook
Integrations
$140-180k
Payments software for hotels
Be an early applicant
Payments software for hotels
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-180k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To supercharge direct bookings, increase conversions, and eliminate chargeback disputes for hotels, by offering the most intuitive payment experience for guests.
Role
Who you are
- Our ideal candidate is sharp, enthusiastic, and believes in our mission to fundamentally disrupt the status quo in the hospitality industry. If you are passionate about tech, travel, and teamwork, this role is for you!
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate and recommend alternative technical approaches
- Experience working with Ruby in a professional setting
- Clear and effective communication skills, including the ability to work with senior stakeholders
Desirable
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- Background in building or integrating with payment systems
- Good experience with non relational databases
- Understanding of microservices architecture, particularly GRPC
- Experience designing and maintaining high-performance APIs and platforms
- Project management or team leadership experience
What the job involves
- We're looking for a seasoned Back-End Engineer to help build and scale a fast, secure, and resilient booking and payment platform. In this role, you'll shape the architecture, drive high-impact projects, and collaborate across teams to deliver seamless booking experiences
- Develop and maintain reliable, high-performance APIs, with a primary focus on Ruby
- Integrate third-party services to enhance and extend platform functionality
- Optimize existing infrastructure to ensure scalability, performance, and security
- Serve as a technical leader and subject matter expert by:
- Establishing and promoting engineering best practices
- Partnering with cross-functional teams to drive complex, high-impact initiatives
Our take
Slick, minimal-click payments interfaces like Apple Pay have become the norm in most industries. However, the hospitality industry, especially independent properties, are lagging behind in this respect and losing out to online travel agents and large aggregators as a result. Selfbook is changing that by providing payments software that enables more seamless booking flow, merchandising, and one-click payments for hotels.
Until now, Selfbook has been focused on boutique or independent hotels or small groups that would represent anywhere from five-25 properties. The company is now in a position to serve larger chains through partnerships with more established fintech providers.
The difficulty for Selfbook will be upgrading an industry that is characterised by the use of inefficient, analogue systems which do not easily allow modern integrations. Overcoming these hurdles will guarantee the long-term value of Selfbook as a company.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2022
$15m
SERIES A
Oct 2021
$25m
SERIES A
Total funding: $40m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- 401K Match
- Comprehensive health coverage: Medical, dental, vision and life
- Remote/virtual work environment
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Monthly reimbursement towards cell phone bill
Company HQ
Tribeca, New York, NY
Leadership
Khalid Meniri
(CEO)Studied Applied Data Science at Stanford before working as a Data Architect at Siemens. Thereafter, founded SIXAGENCY prior to co-founding Selfbook in 2018.
Ilyas Djeddou
(CTO)Worked at Unilever in Mobile payments from 2015 to 2017. Also worked as CTO for SIXAGENCY.
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