Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Serko is a cutting-edge tech platform in global business travel & expense technology. When you join Serko, you become part of a team of passionate travellers and technologists bringing people together, using the world’s leading business travel marketplace. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we embrace the richness of diversity, showing up authentically to create a positive impact. There's an exciting road ahead of us, where travel needs real, impactful change.

With offices in New Zealand, Australia, North America, and China, we are thrilled to be expanding our global footprint, landing our new hub in Bengaluru, India. With rapid a growth plan in place for India, we’re hiring people from different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to help us build a world-class team and product.

Requirements

As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend development, you'll play a pivotal role in creating and maintaining robust server-side applications.
By fostering a collaborative environment and emphasizing practices like continuous improvement, test automation, and code refactoring, you'll contribute to delivering high-quality software solutions that meet our users' needs.

What you'll do

• Work closely with Product and Technology teams to develop high-quality software that enhances customer experience.
• Design, develop, and maintain clean, well-structured backend services and APIs with regular production deployments.
• Contribute to system architecture and design decisions.
• Drive continuous improvement in team processes, practices, and product development.
• Engage in team refinement and planning sessions.
• Take ownership in a “build it and run it” environment, ensuring deployment, monitoring, and support of owned components.
• Advocate for modern technical practices like Domain-Driven Design, CI/CD, pair programming, and mob programming.
• Mentor and support other engineers in their growth.
• Foster a positive engineering culture through collaboration, leadership, and best practices.

What you'll bring to the team

• A passion for learning and adapting to new technologies within our stack.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages and frameworks, with an understanding of frontend technologies like React and Next.js.
• Experience in the travel industry is a plus but not required.
• A pragmatic approach to delivering well-designed, secure, and high-performing solutions.
• A team player who thrives with autonomy and values open, constructive feedback in an inclusive environment.
• Curious problem-solver with strong planning, prioritization, and communication skills.

Benefits

At Serko we aim to create a place where people can come and do their best work. This means you’ll be operating in an environment with great tools and support to enable you to perform at the highest level of your abilities, producing high-quality, and delivering innovative and efficient results. Our people are fully engaged, continuously improving, and encouraged to make an impact.

• Some of the benefits of working at Serko are:
• A competitive base pay
• Medical Benefits
• Discretionary incentive plan based on individual and company performance
• Focus on development: Access to a learning & development platform and opportunity for you to own your career pathways
• Flexible work policy.

Apply

Hit the ‘apply’ button now, or explore more about what it’s like to work at Serko and all our global opportunities at www.Serko.com .