Cruisebound is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to support its growing
business. In this role, you will work as part of a small team of engineers to
enhance our cruise booking platform, and act as a mentor and thought partner
for our growing engineering team.
If you are excited about using technology to drastically improve the way
cruisers find and book their perfect vacation, Cruisebound is the right place
for you. To apply, please send your resume and a brief cover letter explaining
why you are interested in the position to
[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).
**Your responsibilities**
As an early member of the Cruisebound team, you will be an integral part of
making the consequential early decisions that will drive our growth. Your
responsibilities will evolve as Cruisebound grows, but for starters, they will
include:
* Being hands on - you'll be writing code as part of a small engineering team
* Helping solve performance and architecture problems as we scale our growing userbase
* Maintaining and extending monitoring and alerting for our web APIs
* Triaging and Remediating Errors and Availability issues for Production services
* Working alongside Cruisebound team members outside engineering to help improve internal tooling workflows
**The ideal candidate**
* Has at least 8 years of experience working with server-side languages, JVM experience preferred
* Has a depth of experience optimizing performance from CDN to database, and everywhere in between
* Is comfortable working in a distributed work environment
* Has a passion for travel and/or cruises and regularly experiences wanderlust
* Experience from travel industry or agencies is not required
**About Cruisebound**
Our mission is to help cruisers book their dream vacation by creating the best
online booking experience for cruises.
We are customer centric - we focus on finding the fastest and most intuitive
way to solve customer pain points. We are decisive - we don’t let perfect be
the enemy of good. We are data driven - support every decision with data. We
are one crew - we win and lose together, we are not afraid to make mistakes
and learn from them.
Our founding team previously built and scaled Rocket Travel, a travel startup,
to $900M in revenue. Rocket is now part of Booking Holdings, the world leader
in travel. We are a diverse team from Schuylerville, Treungen, Waukesha, and
Saguenay who have learned about the travel industry at places like
Booking.com, United Airlines, McKinsey, BCG, Stanford, and MIT.
**Compensation and Benefits**
The compensation package for this position comprises: (1) a base salary
ranging from $140,000 to $160,000 depending on the candidate's experience,
knowledge, and skills, and (2) employee stock option grant. In addition, we
also offer our employees a comprehensive range of benefits including but not
limited to:
* Excellent health care insurance (medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, etc.)
* Generous personal paid time off (PTO) allowance beginning with 20 days in the first year, plus 2 additional days per year of tenure (up to 30 days total)
* 4 company-wide holidays (first Friday of each quarter) and 12 public holidays observed
* $1,000 annual cruise credit to use on Cruisebound.com and additional employee rebates
* $100/month communication credit intended for cell phone and Wi-Fi expenses
* In-person meetups and offsites
