Senior Software Engineer, Traveler Assistance (TARS)

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Change the way the world travels

Join the GetYourGuide journey to connect people with unforgettable travel experiences around the world. Millions look to us for unique activities they can trust, and it’s all powered by our commitment to make every single journey extraordinary - including yours. Ready to unlock your potential with a community of fellow explorers? Find your next role at our Berlin HQ or one of our local offices around the globe, from New York to Bangkok. Head to getyourguide.careers to take the first step.

Team mission

The Traveler Assistance (TARS) team is transforming traveler support at GetYourGuide by building an autonomous AI agent that handles complex rescheduling, cancellations, and support queries at massive scale. We're tackling cutting-edge challenges in deploying LLMs in production, ensuring these systems work reliably for millions of users, while building high-performance infrastructure that serves hundreds of thousands of daily interactions. Our AI-first team of engineers, designers, conversational designers, and data scientists is pioneering what it means to deploy LLMs safely in production, and we leverage AI extensively in our own development workflow to accelerate our impact.

We empower engineers with high autonomy to make decisions and act on them, balancing pragmatic and strategic tradeoffs daily. We navigate this rapidly evolving space together, and while we're driven by impact, having fun while building something great is equally important to us.

Your mission

• Design and develop highly scalable systems for chat infrastructure, email forwarding, LLM integration, and phishing prevention that serve millions of travelers
• Own full-stack responsibilities, with primary focus on backend systems but including frontend work when needed
• Continuously improve our systems by aggressively removing tech debt and insisting on simple, scalable, and maintainable solutions
• Take an active role in operational work and maintenance, raising the bar for engineering craftsmanship and how we run our services
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders to understand business needs, propose technical solutions, and deliver working software that drives measurable impact
• Work in a cross-functional mission team alongside product managers, designers, conversational designers, and data scientists
• Leverage AI daily to accelerate your own productivity and push the team's capabilities to the next level
• Stay current with the latest trends in LLM development and bring relevant innovations to the team
• Mentor engineers, contribute to team culture, and elevate the performance standards across the team

Your toolkit

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Proficiency in Java/Spring and the ability to build features from scratch
• Ability to contribute to the frontend codebase (ideally using TypeScript and Vue)
• A strong background in designing and implementing scalable service-oriented architectures and a good understanding of design patterns
• Experience building and running production microservices in distributed, cloud, and Kubernetes-based environments, with modern observability tools
• A positive, pro-active, team-oriented mindset, and a passion for mentoring and sharing knowledge
• A passion for delivering clean code and continuously learning about new tools, languages, and practices
• Be excited to experiment with and leverage AI
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Extras that give you an edge

• Have built SaaS products before
• Experience building and shipping LLM-powered products
• Experience improving products through A/B experimentation

How we’ll make your career journey extraordinary

• Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs for continuous learning and development
• Work from anywhere in the world for 30 days per year
• A hybrid working approach with three days of in office collaboration (Mon, Tue, Thur) and two days of optional at home focus time.
• Opportunities to collaborate and socialize with team members through quarterly team events and yearly company-wide events
• Monthly transportation and fitness budget
• Discounts for you, your friends, and family on GetYourGuide activities
• Language reimbursement program
• Health and wellness benefits

And more…

How to apply

Submit your CV/resume in English using the form below. For tips and insights into our hiring process and culture, check out how we hire for tips and visibility into our process and check out life at GetYourGuide. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via E-Mail schreiben.

We are an equal opportunities employer

Our commitment is that every qualified person will be evaluated according to their skills, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion. Please refrain from including your picture and age with your application.

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Benefits at GetYourGuide Berlin

• Monthly allowance for transport (Deutschland ticket)
• Bonuses for successful employee referrals
• Virtual shares so you can be part of our success
• Company contributions to personal pension plans
• 30 days per year for telecommuting
• 20% discount for friends & family on GetYourGuide activities
• 25 vacation days; +1 for each additional year up to a cap of 28
• Discounted Urban Sports Club membership
• Mental wellbeing services with nilo.health
• In-house gym and fitness classes
• Annual flu shots
• 1,000€ yearly for courses and training
• Language course reimbursement
• Regular meetups, workshops, and hackdays
• Mentorship program
• Access to AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot
• 10 days of paid educational leave every 2 years
• Weekly catered brunches, lunches, and snacks
• Extra days off when winter holidays land on weekends
• Annual GetYourGuide Summits.
• Partner discounts including FutureBens, Plant Club, and more