Nice to Meet You! We are Ascenda
Ascenda revolutionizes loyalty solutions for fintechs, financial institutions, and loyalty alliances globally. We pride ourselves on pushing boundaries, offering beautiful, functional, and fast-implementing designs that provide exceptional customer benefits.
About Ascenda Travel
Ascenda Travel was born in 2015 as Kaligo.com when we first started powering highly rewarding loyalty points earn for customers on their hotel stays; We now host 700,000+ hotels, 100,000+ flights powering the stays & redemptions for millions of customers across our plethora of B2B team-ups globally.
Our mission today is to deliver the best in class customer experience & varied selection of cars, hotels & flight bookings.
Engineering excellence is our edge
We take great pride in building world-class software products that derive their success from beautiful architecture, high performance, ease of use and solid security in-depth.
Our teams are passionate about great code and global scalability. The technical problems we are most excited to solve go far beyond our current areas of expertise, which motivates us to push the limits and expand our own horizon every day. Work with problems like:
- Billions of points earn & burn yearly
- Millions of spend data along with a multitude of user segments daily
- Maintaining & securing thousands of customer sessions across platforms
The Role and Expectations
In the Software Engineer role for our Travel Team, you will have the opportunity to contribute significantly to building and enhancing our innovative SaaS-based travel platform. We value a proactive approach and eagerness for team collaboration. Your role will require a balance of both front-end and back-end skills.
- Work closely with fellow like-minded engineers on our hotels, cars, flights booking platform used by millions of our customers worldwide
- Engage closely with our designers, product owners, and other engineers in developing travel experiences like classified room images, payment construct and methods integrations for users in different parts of the world.
- Adhere to and practice engineering best practices within the team - such as code reviews, API integration tests, writing our solutions in a maintainable manner.
- Increase our platform’s speed and flexibility so that our architecture stays ahead of user scale and checkout volumes.
Who we are looking for:
- 3 years of solid programming experience, including front-end and back-end development
- Proficiency in at least one frontend language, preferably Typescript
- Experience in building frontends, either using vanilla JS or specific frameworks (Angular, React)
- A fast learner with curiosity to learn & explore new languages and libraries - plumbing the depths of our stack and frameworks used are key in enabling optimisations for scale
- Strong communication: articulate complex ideas in a simple, relatable style
- A team player with a collaborative approach and willingness to assist others
What matters at Ascenda:
We are passionate, We keep things simple, We focus on results, We work together & We innovate!
Benefits:
We have a rewarding working place that provides a:
- High growth environment & exponential career development
- Mobile & flexible work environment
- Competitive compensation
- Travel perks & Employee rewards
Ascenda is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
We thank you for your understanding that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
