Senior Software Engineer - Flight Data Systems

AirHelp is a global travel tech company founded in 2013 that helps travelers claim flight compensation and provides travel protection products. The company has a global team of over 400 employees speaking 19 languages and serves millions of travelers worldwide through its membership program AirHelp+. AirHelp also advocates for air passenger rights through APRA.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with significant depth in Go backend development.
• Experience designing and operating high-throughput, data-intensive, or event-driven systems including pipelines, streaming/ingestion, and real-time APIs.
• Strong knowledge of concurrency, reliability, and performance trade-offs.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, and data modeling.
• Experience working across the full software development lifecycle.
• Experience with cloud environments, especially AWS, and containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Ownership mindset and proactive problem solving.
• Strong English communication skills.

Bonus points for:

• Experience integrating third-party data feeds with challenges like rate limits and schema drift.
• Familiarity with the aviation or travel domain.
• Experience with observability and SLO-driven operations.

• Design, build, and scale Go services that ingest flight data from heterogeneous external providers and serve normalized data.
• Own performance, correctness, and uptime of Flight Data Systems.
• Lead modernization and optimization initiatives across platform services.
• Ship production-ready code daily with strong testing discipline.
• Improve developer velocity through contributions to shared tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
• Mentor peers and improve engineering standards via code reviews, design discussions, and documentation.
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to frame problems and translate ambiguous data requirements into maintainable systems.