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.




Robust 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 rapid-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