Senior Backend Engineer (Amadeus)
Combine Global Recruitment · Remote - Buenos Aires City, Argentina | La Paz, Bolivia | Sao Paulo, Brazil | Santiago, Chile | Bogota, D.C., Colombia | San Jose, Costa Rica | Havana, Cuba | Quito, Ecuador | San Salvador, El Salvador | Managua, Nicaragua | Panama City | Asuncion, Paraguay | Mexico City | Distrito Central, Honduras | Guatemala | Caracas, Venezuela | Montevideo, Uruguay | Lima, Peru · 2026-08-31
Job description
Senior Software Engineer (Travel Tech / Booking Engine) — Remote, LATAM Preferred
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join a fast-growing travel technology company building its own end-to-end booking platform. This is a high-impact, hands-on role where you will help evolve the product from a proposal and itinerary tool into a fully integrated booking engine.
You will work directly with a globally distributed team (India + US), contributing to core product development and bringing real, hands-on expertise in the travel domain and GDS integrations — Amadeus in particular.
This is a new position, created to expand domain expertise inside the engineering team and improve timezone coverage with the U. S.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain integrations with Amadeus APIs (and other GDS systems as the platform expands)
- Develop and enhance a booking engine supporting flights and hotels, with car rental to follow
- Own the reservation lifecycle end-to-end: search and pricing, booking, ticketing, cancellations, changes, refunds
- Handle the hard parts: price and availability changes mid-flow, PNR handling, multi-destination itineraries, room and rate combinations
- Work on backend services and APIs powering travel workflows
- Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and QA teams across timezones
- Take ownership of features end-to-end, from design to production
- Ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of integrations and systems
- Contribute to improving engineering practices (code quality, testing, architecture maturity)
Must-Have Requirements
- Hands-on experience building travel products against GDS APIs — not just working near them. Amadeus is the priority; Sabre or Travelport experience is equally welcome
- Demonstrable understanding of the reservation lifecycle: booking flows (air and hotel), ticketing, cancellations, reschedules, refunds and exchanges
- Practical fluency with core distribution concepts (PNR, fare rules, negotiated/private fares, availability and pricing behaviour)
- Solid backend engineering experience (5–10+ years, or equivalent depth — relevance matters more than years)
- Experience building API integrations and distributed systems
- Experience with PHP (Laravel), or strong backend experience in another language with a genuine willingness to work in PHP
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL or similar)
- Resourcefulness: comfortable reading imperfect vendor documentation, running your own investigation when the API doesn't behave as documented, and proposing a path forward instead of waiting
- Ability to work autonomously in a senior IC capacity
Nice to Have
- Exposure to NDC / direct airline distribution
- Experience with Python or other backend languages
- Experience with AWS (or GCP / Azure)
- Exposure to NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB)
- Experience in scaling products or startup environments
- Familiarity with improving CI/CD, testing, and engineering processes
Frontend experience is not required — the team covers that side.
What We're Looking For
- Real domain expertise in travel tech — this is the critical filter
- A product-minded engineer, not a specialist confined to one narrow area: someone who has seen how a booking product fits together
- Someone who understands not just the code, but the business logic and the impact on the traveller and the agent
- Ability to ramp up fast in a complex, niche domain
- Proactive, ownership-driven mindset
- Comfortable in a small, highly collaborative team
- Strong communication skills across distributed teams
Team & Collaboration
- Small engineering team ( Direct collaboration with the CTO and product leadership in the U. S. (Miami)
- High level of ownership and direct contribution
Location
- Fully remote
- LATAM preferred, for meaningful overlap with U. S. (Miami) working hours
Why Join
- Build a core booking engine from the ground up
- Work on real-world travel systems with genuine complexity
- Direct exposure to product and business decisions
- High ownership in a growing product