Lead Software Engineer

About Us

Holiday Tribe is building India’s first AI-powered self-planning travel platform. We combine conversational interfaces with real-time booking integrations to let travelers plan and book entire trips in minutes. We’re looking for a Lead Developer who can help us build high-performance APIs and workflows that power our planning and booking assistant.

Employment Type: Full-time What You’ll Do: Build and maintain backend services using Node.js (Express) / Fastapi / Spring Boot and integrate them with travel APIs (flights, hotels, activities). Implement RESTful APIs and async programming to support AI-powered trip planning and booking. Work closely with the frontend and AI orchestration layers to enable seamless end-user experience.

Design clean, reusable modules to integrate with third-party booking platforms. Optimize performance and scalability of real-time query systems. What You Bring: 5+ years of backend development experience for product-based startups. Strong knowledge of distributed systems. Strong understanding of RESTful APIs , and async programming.

Experience with databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL). Familiarity with message queues (e.g. Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka) websockets and caching mechanisms. Non-negotiable: Experience working in high-agency startup engineering teams with a builder's mindset . Ability to write clean, modular, testable code. Bonus: Worked on travel, booking, or real-time systems.

Perks: Work with a fast-moving team building futuristic travel tools. Shape backend architecture for a high-growth product. Learn and contribute to AI-agent orchestration pipelines. Competitive pay and ESOPs. Work with a fast-moving team building futuristic travel tools. Shape backend architecture for a high-growth product.

Learn and contribute to AI-agent orchestration pipelines. Competitive pay and ESOPs.