Software Engineer

Launched in 2011, HotelTonight offers the world’s best mobile apps for booking hotels. We make it remarkably easy to book great hotels at amazing last-minute rates on your mobile device, for tonight, tomorrow and next week. When hotels have unsold rooms, they load them onto the app, which means incredible deals. We screen every hotel featured, and only work with ones you'll love.

At HotelTonight, our engineers take enormous pride in creating the world's first mobile-only travel company. We’re seeking teammates who want to set the standard, not just keep up with other companies. We strongly value craftsmanship, have some perfectionist tendencies and strive to stay ahead of the constantly changing mobile landscape to ship useful and delightful products! This is a great opportunity for an engineer who is passionate about the product, thinks of the users, envisions engaging tools, and wants to utilize the latest technologies to deliver industry-changing products. You’ll have an immediate impact, ensuring that our APIs, infrastructure, and internal tools keep HotelTonight light-years ahead of the competition.

* Help us as we relentlessly build, evolve and scale the applications, infrastructure, and tools that power our mobile apps * Develop, modify, and maintain our e-commerce platform, focusing on reliability, speed, and user experience * Constantly improve our current codebase to make it better and faster, leveraging the best tools out there * Own the delivery and deployment of the services you build into our containerized production cluster * Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, designers, supply teams, and marketers to iterate on and improve user and internal-facing products * Actively participate in code review process maintaining the standard of code quality * Evaluate and experiment with new technologies that can be added to our tech stack to solve the hairiest of problems

* 2-5+ years experience with Ruby on Rails or similar frameworks * Experience working with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres), data warehouses, and NoSQL solutions * Has scaled and maintained high-traffic, service-oriented production systems * Problem solver and creative thinker who will take an idea and build it * Comfortable questioning the status quo and testing ideas via prototypes * Analytical and detail-oriented but pragmatic * Innately curious about how things work and could be improved * The ability to empathize with users of the products you build * Excellent communication and cross-collaboration