[Hiring] Staff Engineer @hirehire

Role Description

This role owns the integrations and supply direction. Air travel alone is deep: every airline has its own distribution channels and APIs. You would lead one of five platform development streams and report to the CTO. There is no product manager in between, and you work directly with the founder and other business stakeholders. The team has no one with your profile today, so you would be the first.

What you are expected to do

• Technical ownership
  • Lead the integrations and supply direction as its technical owner.
  • Build integrations with GDS systems. Voyagu works with one today and needs more.
  • Connect airline direct APIs and non-GDS protocols across multiple sources.
  • Handle servicing after sale: changes, cancellations, refunds, and group bookings split into parts.
  • Work with live, real-time availability. Seat availability does not depend on price.
  • Prevent costly errors. One missed booking can mean tens of thousands of dollars. Design for reliability, for example with idempotency, so nothing is paid or bought twice.
  • Keep the solution sized to Voyagu’s scale and avoid over-design. This is not internet-scale work.
  • Keep the system stable. Speed and error rate are the measures.
• Vision and delivery
  • Shape the technical vision with stakeholders and defend it. They will challenge it.
  • Expect no ready-made tasks. Business stakeholders give you a direction, not a finished task.
  • Turn the agreed platform capabilities into features and give estimates. Several dozen capabilities are written down, such as search and booking.
  • Success means Voyagu accepts your estimates and you deliver them, or come close. Part of the plan will be agreed together with you.
• AI-driven development
  • Build and direct teams of AI coding agents instead of writing code by hand.
  • Explain and defend how to use AI effectively.
  • Bring AI practices that are as good as Voyagu’s, or better.
• Team
  • Lead the two people already working in this direction, once you have onboarded.
  • Hire as little as possible. Hiring is a last resort. Long term the direction may grow to one to three people.

Qualifications

• You have worked in the travel domain, especially on integrations with supply systems. About two or more years is likely enough.
• You understand booking versus ticket, and the statuses and states of each.
• You have owned a large piece of a product, not a small slice.
• You work at staff or senior level, as architect and technical lead.
• You understand what Voyagu does and why, and you talk well with stakeholders.
• You use AI well beyond the beginner level and have a clear view on how to use it effectively.
• You believe small teams work. You do not think in big organisations.
• You work in a European time zone; ideally you are based in Europe.
• You speak Russian: engineering works mostly in Russian. Business teams speak English, and English B2 is enough.

Requirements

• Nice to have: you have seen both corporate and lean startup worlds, or a bootstrap scaleup. You may be an ex-founder or a small-company CTO who stayed hands-on.
• Nice to have: you have run teams of agents, not only asked an agent to write a feature.
• Nice to have: vendor-side experience building for end users. Python is the current main stack, but language skill is not important.
• Not required: high-load experience, writing agent skills, or deep C#/legacy aviation knowledge.

Benefits

• You own a whole direction, with responsibility handed over fully.
• You are the technical lead for integrations and supply, with no product-manager layer in between.
• You work with AI agent teams. Voyagu will invest heavily in tokens and compute where it pays off.
• You can bring AI practices better than Voyagu’s own, and the team will share theirs.
• A large, technically hard platform: real-time inventory, many sources, money at stake.
• A lean environment with few meetings and flexible hours.
• Fully remote in Europe, with flexible contract models.
• Equity is not standard, but it is negotiable for an exceptional candidate.

How to apply

Apply through hirehire, the agency running this search for Voyagu. The process has three stages: an engineering interview with the CTO, a travel-domain interview with the founder, and a practical case with a defence.