tiket.com is a travel and lifestyle platform for booking travel tickets and accommodation. Its work spans travel services and related customer experiences, supported by teams across hospitality, logistics, and marketing. The company describes a workplace focused on collaboration, performance, and employee development, including learning through tiketAcademy.
Senior Software Engineer, Accommodation — tiket.com (On-site, India)
Lead backend architecture and engineering for tiket.com’s Accommodation domain, serving a travel platform with more than 50 million users. Guide integrations, migrations, and engineering practices across distributed services.
Description
- Build and improve reliable, high-performance services using SOLID principles and clean code.
- Take ownership of services from design and delivery through observability, on-call support, and incident follow-up.
- Design partner-facing APIs and measure and improve their performance and scalability.
- Choose schema, indexing, caching, and event-flow approaches for high-volume rate, availability, and inventory updates.
- Improve code quality through reviews, testing practices, and ongoing refactoring.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, design records, and runbooks.
- Support engineers through pairing, code reviews, and design feedback.
- Work with Product, QA, Data, and partner-facing teams to turn business needs into technical solutions.
- Lead the technical design and delivery of team features and services.
- Turn complex problems into manageable work and guide engineers through implementation.
- Find and address technical debt, performance constraints, and reliability risks.
- Set technical direction and architecture for the Accommodation domain.
- Lead cross-team designs and integrations with pricing, inventory, order, and partner systems.
- Write and review RFCs and architecture proposals, and build agreement among stakeholders.
- Set and advance a multi-quarter technical roadmap covering refactors, rewrites, and migrations.
- Define engineering standards for testing, observability, releases, and design reviews that support growth.
- Represent engineering in cross-functional planning and explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- At least 6–8 years of backend development experience, including substantial work designing distributed systems at scale.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; Computer Science or Information Technology preferred.
- Strong experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases, including schema design, indexing, query optimization, and data-consistency trade-offs.
- Practical experience with caching technologies such as Redis or Memcached and with Elasticsearch.
- Production experience with event-driven systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ, including idempotency, ordering, and retry handling.
- Strong background in CI/CD, test-driven development, Git Flow, and refactoring or rewriting legacy systems.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux.
- Ability to analyze logs, debug, and troubleshoot production issues using observability tools such as logs, metrics, and tracing.
- Strong prioritization and product ownership.
- Critical thinking, clear communication, and a collaborative approach across functions, including explaining technical trade-offs.
- Ability to influence without formal authority and align engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
- Comfort using AI tools for coding, debugging, design, and documentation to improve engineering speed, and guiding responsible use by others.
- Demonstrated leadership in architecture decisions spanning multiple teams or services.
- Experience completing large-scale migrations, re-architectures, or platform initiatives.
- Travel, marketplace, or partner-facing B2B platform experience is a plus.
Benefits
- May be considered for another career opportunity if no update is provided within three weeks.
- Opportunity to work on a travel platform used by more than 50 million people.
- Opportunities to mentor others and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.