Lead Backend Systems Engineer

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

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