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.

Pay: ₹2,500,000.00 - ₹3,000,000.00 per year

Advantages

- Provident Fund

Application Question(s):
- What's your product base experience?
- How much experience on AI?
- How much experience on MERN Stack?

Work Location: In person

📌 Lead Software Engineer (Gurugram)
🏢 Holiday Tribe
📍 Gurugram