Senior Software Engineer (UI)
About The Position
SkyLink is seeking a senior software engineer with deep frontend expertise to join their team and help build the best-in-class AI travel management platform. The role involves leading the development of SkyLink’s web experience, creating a seamless extension of their AI agent across Slack, Microsoft Teams, and the browser. The engineer will build intuitive traveler experiences, operational tools for travel management companies, and administrative dashboards for corporate customers. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience building polished, user-friendly frontends and understanding the underlying APIs, data models, and workflows. The role offers ownership and autonomy, with opportunities for professional and personal growth. The tech stack includes React and TypeScript for the frontend, Python, Django, Celery, Redis, and PostgreSQL for the backend, and AWS and Docker for infrastructure.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Significant experience building complex frontend applications in React and TypeScript
- Experience building polished, responsive, and performant user experiences for nuanced workflows
- Comfortable working across the stack, from UI components and application state to APIs and relational data models
- Ability to understand complex orchestration and translate backend workflows into simple, intuitive user experiences
- Critical thinking about product and design rather than simply implementing mocks
- Proactively identifies ways to simplify workflows, reduce engineering effort, and improve maintainability
- Scrappy, knows how to ship, and values progress over perfection
- Strong software design, security, testing, and relational database fundamentals
- Desire to set, maintain, and adhere to high engineering standards across testing, documentation, code review, and architecture
- Enjoys using the latest AI coding tools and development harnesses to build production systems
Responsibilities
- Build SkyLink’s web-based traveler experience, including flight and hotel search, comparison, booking, trip management, rebooking, and cancellation
- Create seamless handoffs between SkyLink’s Slack and Microsoft Teams experiences and richer web interfaces
- Build dashboards and operational tools for corporate travel administrators and travel management companies
- Develop reusable frontend components for complex travel content, including itineraries, fares, policies, approvals, traveler profiles, and booking workflows
- Work closely with product and design to challenge unnecessary complexity and propose simpler, more scalable solutions
- Understand SkyLink’s orchestration, APIs, and data models to design frontend systems that accurately represent complex travel workflows
- Design and implement APIs and database models needed to support new user experiences
- Improve frontend performance, reliability, accessibility, observability, and testing
- Help define the architecture and engineering standards for SkyLink’s growing web platform
- Work directly with customers and internal teams to understand how travelers and administrators interact with the product
Benefits
- New laptop of your choice
- Paid lunch and Dinner after 7PM when at the office
- 401(K) Plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Healthcare
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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