Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Going, a profitable travel-tech company, as a Senior Backend Engineer and play a key role in architecting and scaling backend systems for flight deal discovery, data ingestion, inventory search, and booking. You will work on core systems like GDS integrations, internal APIs, and authentication services. This role involves deep technical ownership, cross-team collaboration, mentorship, and hands-on contributions. Initially, you will ramp up on Going’s backend, contribute to core travel systems, lead feature development, and mentor engineers. Long-term responsibilities include owning core backend components, leading greenfield development, driving service improvements, collaborating on technical strategy, and mentoring engineers. Going values championing travelers, taking ownership, bold bets, simplicity, creating magical experiences, and going the extra mile.

Requirements

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience in high-scale, distributed systems
• Proficiency in both statically and dynamically typed programming languages (e.g., Go and Python/Ruby)
• Strong knowledge of Linux-based systems, system debugging, and operational fundamentals
• Deep experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), caching (Redis), and async job queues (e.g., Sidekiq, Celery)
• Experience working with APMs and observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, New Relic)
• Clear, empathetic communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with engineers, product managers, and designers
• You’re able to work US hours, and you’re legally authorized to work in the United States

Responsibilities

• Ramp up on Going’s backend services, architecture, codebase, and deployment pipelines
• Contribute to core travel systems including APIs, GDS integrations, and async workflows
• Lead development of backend features in collaboration with product, data, and mobile/web engineers
• Propose and implement performance, reliability, or maintainability improvements in existing services
• Pair with and mentor engineers across the team to share best practices and raise technical quality
• Help shape the future of our system design through thoughtful, pragmatic engineering contributions
• Own and evolve core components of our backend architecture, especially around travel systems integrations
• Lead greenfield development of scalable systems that support Going’s backend and data capabilities
• Drive improvements in service observability, fault tolerance, performance, and data integrity
• Collaborate with other engineering leaders to shape technical strategy, service boundaries, and system evolution
• Mentor engineers and champion engineering best practices in design, testing, documentation, and incident response
• Influence engineering-wide standards, helping us scale while maintaining technical excellence and joy of development

Preferred Qualifications

• MS/MA in Computer Science or related engineering field
• Extensive Golang experience, especially with protobuf and gRPC
• Familiarity with modern backend architecture patterns including service decomposition, event-driven systems, and data pipelines
• Experience modernizing or refactoring legacy codebases in high-availability systems
• Exposure to travel technology platforms or GDS systems is a plus

Benefits

• The salary for this role is $160,000 + equity
• 100% remote work environment
• Annual team retreats, with past destinations including Washington D.C., Vancouver, and Mexico City. We’re heading to Scottsdale in October and will be excited to meet you there!
• Open vacation policy, with a 15-day minimum
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance
• 401(k) with a 5% match
• $750/quarter remote work, wellness, and wisdom stipend
• Up to 12 weeks of paid family leave
• Meetup stipend when you cross paths with a co-worker
• Continuing education & development reimbursement