Fora Travel · 3 weeks ago
Senior/Staff Backend Engineer
Fora Travel is a modern travel agency that empowers individuals to transform their passion for travel into a successful business. They are seeking a seasoned Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to build and enhance their products and infrastructure, focusing on high-quality software development for their advisor portal and other systems.
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Responsibilities
Partner with Product Managers and Designers to define and prioritize the roadmap
Alongside your fellow engineers, build the travel advisors application that is responsible for new advisors on boarding, searching and booking travel, and manages the advisor’s itineraries and interactions with their clients
Focus on performance, architecture, clean design and clean code principles of development
Collaborate with other engineers in order to define end to end engineering solutions
Own epics and be responsible for the entire solution - design, implementation and delivery
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
6+ years experience in backend web development
3+ years experience with Python, using Django / Flask / Alternative
High API and distributed systems design skills
Experience with relational database ORMs
AWS experience, a plus
Kubernetes experience, a plus
Ability to be a team player, with strong communication and collaboration skills
An entrepreneurial mindset
Benefits
Unlimited vacation
Health Insurance (including an option completely covered by Fora HQ)
Dental & Vision Insurance
Wellhub Memberships
401k plan with company match
Commuter Benefits
Supplemental Life Insurance
Stock Options
Company
Fora Travel
Fora is the modern travel agency.
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$78.5MKey Investors
Insight PartnersForerunner
2025-01-01Series C· $40M
2023-01-01Series B· $20M
2022-08-11Series A· $13.5M
Recent News
2025-10-13
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