Senior Backend Engineer - Travel Platform

About the Company Kaz Travel is a well-established UK-based travel agency with a strong presence in both retail and corporate travel. We manage flights, holidays, hotel bookings, and visa services, supported by a team operating across the UK and India.

We combine deep industry knowledge with global supplier partnerships to offer personalised service, competitive pricing, and dependable support. With steady growth and a loyal customer base, we’re investing in technology to strengthen our operations and build a modern internal platform.

About the Role We’re looking for a senior backend engineer to help build the next generation of Kaz Travel’s internal systems. The role centres on developing the backend that powers our CRM, booking workflows, supplier integrations, payments, reporting, and internal tools.

You’ll work closely with our leadership and IT / data team to translate real travel business processes into clean, scalable backend services. This is a hands-on engineering position with long-term growth as we expand our tech capabilities.

What You’ll Be Doing Designing backend architecture for our internal travel platform and CRM

Creating data models for bookings, customers, ticketing, payments, and accounting

Building REST APIs for internal teams and future partner / agent portals

Integrating with major travel industry APIs, including :

GDS providers

Bedbanks and wholesalers

Payment gateways and fraud systems

Implementing key business logic such as pricing, markups, commissions, refunds, and reconciliation

Managing cloud deployments, CI / CD pipelines, environments, logging, and monitoring

Writing clear documentation for schemas, APIs, integrations, and workflows

Collaborating with our IT manager to plan development cycles and maintain delivery quality

Establishing technical best practices as our tech team grows

What We’re Looking For Solid commercial experience in backend or full stack engineering

Strong skills in one of the following :

Node.Js / TypeScript

Python

C# / .NET

Excellent SQL skills and experience designing relational schemas

Proven experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs

Strong background in integrating external APIs in a structured, maintainable way

Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, deployments, CI / CD, and monitoring

Ability to turn business workflows into clean, working technical solutions

Nice to Have Experience with travel platforms, booking engines, or finance / operations backends

Understanding of RBAC, logging, audit trails, and secure system design

Comfortable using AI tools to speed up development without compromising quality

Some frontend experience (React or similar) is helpful but not required

How You Work You take ownership of backend systems and deliver reliable solutions

You communicate clearly and work well in a focused, fast-moving team

You care about maintainability, data accuracy, and long-term architecture

You prefer practical, well-structured engineering over complexity