Backend Engineer, Automation

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October 23

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Sherpa°

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Travel • AI • eCommerce

Sherpa° is a company that provides AI-powered visa services integrated into the travel booking experience. They offer solutions for travelers, enabling them to obtain travel visas, check entry requirements, and validate documents across 100+ destinations. Sherpa° collaborates with airlines and online travel agencies to enhance customer experience, boost ancillary revenue, and simplify travel for their users by ensuring seamless access to vital travel information at every touchpoint.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

🛍️ eCommerce

📋 Description

• Own production automation infrastructure. Build and maintain self-healing systems, error recovery workflows, and operational tooling that keeps critical processes running without manual intervention. • Convert operations into code. Transform manual processes and scripts into self-serve interfaces with proper validation, error handling, and rollback capabilities that operations teams can confidently use. • Design for operational independence. Create monitoring, alerts, and diagnostic tools that enable non-technical teams to understand system state, diagnose issues, and recover without engineering escalation. • Architect API solutions. Drive API design decisions, versioning strategies, service integration approaches, and API lifecycle management across the platform. • Ship quality automation and APIs. Build performant, reliable systems that serve millions of users with minimal operational overhead and excellent developer experience. • Reverse-engineer integrations. Debug and maintain stable connections to external systems, handling authentication flows, session management, and adapting to undocumented changes.

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years professional software development experience with exposure to API design and backend development • Demonstrated experience building and maintaining APIs in production environments, with understanding of API lifecycle fundamentals • Comfortable with ambiguity and learning through doing. You can reverse-engineer how systems work, debug unfamiliar code, and figure things out when documentation is incomplete • Practical debugging skills. You can trace issues through logs, reproduce problems consistently, and understand what's happening in production systems • Ownership mindset—you're comfortable being on-call for systems you build and take pride in monitoring and improving them based on real usage • You've built web scrapers or extensively worked with e2e tests

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary • Comprehensive benefits • Early-stage stock options • 4 weeks' vacation (Moving towards unlimited vacation plan) • Flexibility to work from home or office • Learning and development fund