Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

Location - Epitome Building 5,Tower C, 22nd Floor, DLF Phase 3, Sector 25, DLF Cyber City, Gurgaon

TBO(www.tbo.com)

TBO is a global platform that aims to simplify all buying and selling travel needs of travel partners across the world. The proprietary technology platform aims to simplify the demands of the complex world of global travel by seamlessly connecting the highly distributed travel buyers and travel suppliers at scale.

The TBO journey began in 2006 with a simple goal – to address the evolving needs of travel buyers and suppliers, and what started off as a single product air ticketing company, has today become the leading B2A (Business to Agents) travel portal across the Americas, UK & Europe, Africa, Middle East, India, and Asia Pacific.

Today, TBO's product range from air, hotels, rail, holiday packages, car rentals, transfers, sightseeing, cruise, and cargo. Apart from these products, our proprietary platform relies heavily on AI/ML to offer unique listings and products, meeting specific requirements put forth by customers, thus increasing conversions.

TBO's approach has always been technology-first and we continue to invest on new innovations and new offerings to make travel easy and simple. TBO's travel APIs are serving large travel ecosystems across the world while the modular architecture of the platform enables new travel products while expanding across new geographies.

Why TBO:

• You will influence & contribute to Building World Largest Technology Led Travel Distribution Network for a $ 9 Trillion global travel business market.
• We are the emerging leaders in technology led end-to-end travel management, in the B2B space.
• Physical Presence in 47 countries with business in 110 countries.
• We are reputed for our-long lasting trusted relationships. We stand by our eco system of suppliers and buyers to service the end customer.
• An open & informal start-up environment which cares.

What TBO offers to a Life Traveller in You:

• Enhance Your Leadership Acumen. Join the journey to create global scale and World Best.
• Challenge Yourself to do something path breaking. Be Empowered. The only thing to stop you will be your imagination.
• Post pandemic: travel space is likely to see significant growth. Witness and shape this space. It will be one exciting journey.
• As a fastest growing B2B platform our priority is purpose-building scalable systems.
• Adopting industry leading technologies to support best-in-class business capabilities for high performing and scalable solutions.
• Fast response to the evolving regulatory environment and helping to meet the firm's regulatory commitments by addressing internal and external commitments.

Top Sights During Your Role Stay (Key Expectations):

We are building an AI-native travel platform for our travel advisors and partners hence we are looking for a highly entrepreneurial AI product builder with a Computer Science background from a premier engineering institute, who can take end-to-end ownership of the product's technical foundation and work directly with the business.

• Strong programming experience with good grasp of scalability and performance
• Strong full stack engineering skills
• Hands-on experience with LLM-based applications
• Design the end-to-end architecture of the AI-native platform.
• Translate customer and advisor workflows into AI-driven product experiences.
• Build systems that understand intent, preferences, and traveller context.
• Design agentic flows that can search, reason, compare, recommend, trigger actions and determine where AI should automate, assist or hand off to humans.
• Experience with RAG, embeddings, vector search and tool calling
• 5 to 8 years of experience building consumer facing platforms.
• This is IC Role
• Strong grasp of distributed systems and system design.
• High degree of ownership
• Ability to pick up and learn new programming languages and frameworks
• Strong problem solving ability and focus on innovation
• Prior experience with serverless technologies is desirable
• Exposure to languages/ framworks like GoLang, RUST ,Java,Python, Node
• Capacity to use SQL server with ease. Exposure to Redis / MongoDB/ PostgreSQL is desired.
• Should have worked with cloud platforms like AWS / Azure.
• Lead the design, development, and implementation of complex software systems.
• Ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and maintainability.
• A flair for creating well-presented software that is technically sound.
• Outstanding analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Self-driven, flexible, and innovative.