Senior Fullstack Engineer, Exoticca
Trip Management
Travel tour & package provider
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Travel tour & package provider
201-500 employees
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To help travellers worldwide fulfil their dreams.
Role
Who you are
- Strong problem-solving mindset — you enjoy ambiguous problems and figuring out the best path forward
- Highly effective use of AI in daily work (coding, debugging, designing, analyzing, automating)
- Product-oriented thinking: you care about why you’re building something, not just how
- Comfort working across multiple technologies and learning new ones as needed
- Solid knowledge of RESTful API design, development, and integration best practices
- Experience working with event-driven architectures (EDA) and message-based communication between services
- Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and clean architecture principles
- Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control best practices using Git (GitHub Actions or similar)
- Strong emphasis on testing (unit, integration) and commitment to code quality, scalability, and maintainability
- Familiarity with observability practices — including logging, monitoring, and tracing — to ensure visibility and reliability across distributed services
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively within cross-functional teams
- Backend: PHP
- Frontend: React, React Native
- We don’t expect you to know everything, but experience in some of the following is important:
- APIs, integrations, and system design
- AI tools, LLMs, automation workflows
- Data-informed decision making
- Proven ability to design and integrate RESTful APIs with attention to performance and reliability
- Knowledge of testing practices (unit and integration) and a strong focus on code quality
- Familiarity with observability principles, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Back-end Software Engineer who is first and foremost a problem solver. Someone who uses engineering as a toolbox to solve real customer and business problems
- This role sits within our Trip Management System domain, the team that empowers our travel specialists to design extraordinary journeys at scale. We build the systems that transform destinations, itineraries, flights, hotels and pricing strategies into structured, sellable travel products
- By enabling seamless product configuration and ensuring accuracy, flexibility, and scalability, we directly impact revenue, operational excellence, and the quality of the experiences we bring to our customers
- Technology choices matter, but impact matters more. You’ll work across PHP, Node.js and modern AI tooling, choosing the right approach for each problem rather than being constrained by a single stack
- Build and evolve the systems that enable travel specialists to design, configure, and launch complex travel products at scale
- Transform destinations, itineraries, flights, hotels and services into structured, reliable, and sellable products
- Ensure flexibility and accuracy in product configuration while maintaining operational efficiency and long-term scalability
- Develop and improve capabilities that support smart departures, pricing strategies, booking breakdowns, payments, refunds, and wallet flows
- Safeguard financial correctness across the full product lifecycle, from configuration to checkout and post-booking operations
- Design systems that directly impact revenue performance and margin optimization
- Build internal platforms and tools that empower Product, Finance, and Operations teams to work autonomously and efficiently
- Increase reliability and reduce manual intervention in calendar management, flight configuration, and payment-related processes
- Continuously improve system robustness, reducing operational risk and scaling complexity without increasing overhead
- Work closely with the whole team to refine problems before writing code
- Use data to validate assumptions, measure business impact, and continuously improve solutions
- Actively participate in shaping product decisions, not just implementing tickets
Our take
Booking travel tours and package holidays in exotic locations lead many people to seek logistics help from travel agents. However, the complexity of these packages often means there is little variety available at local branches with extremely high prices, raising the question as to why there is not a more modern and innovative solution available online.
Exoticca provides an online platform for the booking of holiday packages and tours, with a focus on curating luxury destinations that are chosen by travel experts and provided at heavy discounts negotiated through airlines and hotels. The company also aims to provide a frictionless end-to-end travel experience by covering insurance, ABTA and ATOL guarantees, free cancellation, and COVID-19 protection. After renewed funding in 2025, Exoticca is expanding its international presence as well as deepening its commitment to AI-driven technology, so it can stay ahead in the ever evolving market.
Online travel agents have been around since the dawn of the internet, but Exoticca stands out with its focus on providing curated packages for travel enthusiasts at exclusive locations. Furthermore, the company’s emphasis on convenience and inclusivity ensures that every formality is handled, removing the complexity of travel packages and tours to open the market to a wider audience.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
49% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2024
$69.8m
SERIES D
Jul 2021
$29.4m
SERIES C
Total funding: $126.1m
Company benefits
- Unlimited tea & coffee: Enjoy a cup of "Good News" coffee while connecting with colleagues
- Referral bonus: Bring people as talented as you are to earn a nice bonus!
- Exoticca events: Enjoy regular afterworks, plus bi-annual parties and team lunches
- Language courses: Improve your Spanish or English with free language courses
- Exoticca packages: Travel packages at reduced prices for employees and family/friends!
- Flexible compensation: Use part of your salary for food/transportation with Cobee or get private health insurance with DKV
- Multicultural team: Learn from a diverse team with different backgrounds and perspectives
Company HQ
Sant Gervasi - Galvany, Barcelona, Spain
Leadership
Pere Valles
(CEO)Pere is the co-founder and General Partner at Smartech Capital. Previously, they served as the CEO of Scytl Innovating Democracy for 14 years.
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