Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js)

About the company

At Nuitée, we are building the API backbone for the global travel industry. Founded in 2017, Nuitée is on a mission to transform a fragmented travel ecosystem with simple, scalable, and API-first infrastructure—think “Stripe for Travel.”

By enabling seamless connectivity between hotels, OTAs, fintechs, super-apps, and businesses, some of which are entering the travel market for the first time, Nuitée empowers companies to deliver reliable travel products effortlessly. Our robust platform simplifies complex supplier networks, offering direct access to hotel inventory with better pricing, coverage, and technology.

With teams across the globe, including hubs in London, New York, San Francisco, Palma de Mallorca and Casablanca, Nuitée has grown into a global infrastructure provider trusted by industry leaders like Hopper, Priceline, Google, and Uber.

Now backed by leading VCs and world-class investors including leaders from Booking.com, Stripe, and Shopify, Nuitée is positioned to redefine the B2B travel market, streamline operations for hotels, and enable new applications through cutting-edge APIs.

Nuitée is at the forefront of a revolution—delivering AI-powered, smarter, and more personalized travel experiences for a new era.

About the role Remote in EU, or hybrid in Barcelona, Palma, Dublin, or Casablanca.

Own the backend of a white-label travel platform as it adds new verticals.

Hotels and flights are live. Experiences launch within weeks, and car rentals and more payment providers come next. Our clients are travel brands, banks, and influencers, so every launch brings a new challenge and a chance to design it properly.You'll step in as the backend owner at a pivotal moment. You'll shape the architecture, lead the integrations for each new vertical, and stay hands-on in the code. We've moved quickly to get here, so there's real room to set the standards and clean up the foundations as we grow.This is a role with real ownership. You'll work directly with the backend lead, and within about six months you'll be making the backend decisions yourself.

What makes it interesting for you:

• You get real technical authority. You become the primary backend decision-maker for a product line, working directly with the backend lead and engineering leadership. Your architecture choices stay in the product, and the role has room to grow as the platform and team expand.

• You build on a product that is still taking shape. The platform is heading toward Shopify-level customization, with modular components and configurations for very different clients. You'll build foundations that later verticals depend on.

• You get variety. Each client brings an odd requirement, and the good ideas often become features for other clients. You'll learn something new most weeks.

• You join a stable team. The team has worked together for two to three years, and the engineers look out for each other.

Nuitée has grown 10x since 2022, was profitable before raising a $48M Series A led by Accel, and works with companies such as Revolut, Grab, Hopper, Priceline, and Sabre.

The kind of problems you’ll work on:

• How do we design the backend so that adding a vertical, such as experiences or car rentals, doesn't mean rebuilding what already works?

• Which pieces of existing technical debt hold back reliability or delivery speed, and what is the cleanest order to fix them while shipping?

• How do we integrate third-party travel APIs and payment providers so that bookings stay reliable when a supplier is slow or fails?

• How should our schedulers, cron jobs, and workers be built so they stay dependable as traffic grows?

• How do we keep AWS infrastructure performing for client launches without over-engineering it?

You’ll work on problems where the product, technical approach, and best path forward are still being figured out.

The role is backend-heavy and product-driven. You should be comfor...